Sentences with word «priori»

A priori we can not say how many missing links there really are in our fossil record.

Moreover such a positing of a partially a priori form which mediates organization and intelligibility to a further created realm below («matter») puts significant pressure upon the Christian doctrine of God as the immediate creator and sustainer of every aspect of the cosmos.

Here, I think, no a priori answer is appropriate.

Founded by the followers of Jesus of Nazareth, it was the great «a priori».

A further possible application is to agree (as Norman Pittenger does) that celibacy is not a category to be applied a priori to the situation of the homosexual.

We can not a priori rule out the possibility that the principles of life and mind relate to the level of matter in an analogously unobtrusive fashion.

It is essential to note what Hartshorne means by a priori.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

Thus the principle of cohumanity does enable us to distinguish between better and worse relationships, but it can not serve to dismiss homosexual relations as worse a priori.

In contrast to normative disciplines, Religionswissenschaft does not have a speculative purpose, nor can it start from an a priori deductive method.

This assumption rests on the a priori same cause — same effect» Uniformity Principle which Hume thought to have no rational warrant, but which he thought we believe nonetheless.

Just because there can only be one all - inclusive experience of simultaneity at each moment is insufficient grounds for ruling it out a priori.

The method Hartshorne proposes for carrying out this analysis, he labels the a priori method, in distinction from an empirical or a posteriori method.

I see no a priori reason to assume that «religion» has an essence or that the great religious traditions are well understood as «religions,» that is, as traditions for which being religious is the central goal.

These are leading questions — not to be permitted to become a priori pronouncements about the condition of persons of homosexual inclination, history or intention.

One of the things they do is twist scripture to fit their a priori understanding or needs.

One has to wonder if the driving force behind much historical Jesus scholarship is more an a priori disbelief in orthodoxy than a historian's genuine (and disinterested) interest in what really happened.

However, in a process and ecologically based ontology, such an ethical or normative plane is not given a priori as a fixed or non-changing Platonic ideal, but is derived continually within the concrescence of an ever - changing and evolving universe.

Secular rationalism may be the right road, may be the Truth as it claims to be; but it has come to be felt that there is no a priori intellectual or universal reason for supposing so from the start, so that it may sit in unchallenged judgment on equally massive and venerated traditions, Christian, Hindu, or whatever, that make the same claim.

Hartshorne makes much of the a priori, as having something to do with «conceivable experiences,» the empirical then consisting of what is not a priori.

These differences reflect, in turn, the basic divergence of the two philosophers in epistemological and metaphysical matters — Mill is a thoroughgoing empiricist who holds that even mathematical propositions are generalizations from experience (SL 147 - 69) while Hartshorne defends a rationalistic metaphysics including a priori proofs for the existence of God (CSPM 43 - 56).

Troeltsch continued his commitment to the religious a priori as late as 1912, but it is absent from Der Historismus und seine Probleme which appeared shortly after his death in 1923.

Hartshorne lists some qualifications on theism that are to him essential: a principle of dual transcendence» and a belief in certain «a priori» arguments (actually six of them) that are claimed to be «free from obvious fallacy» and that are suitably arranged disjunctively.

Only to those who, in their a priori faith - based incredulity, fail to adequately fill the gaps with what the science actually says.

(6) 3:7 --»... empiricists who refuse to admit experience naked and unashamed, devoid of their a priori fig - leaf» (PR 221).

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

I heard Quine and Carnap argue about the distinction between empirical and a priori and, like many of the others at Chicago, thought Carnap more right than Quine.

Hence no particular discontinuity should be assumed a priori.

William Hamilton has called Pannenberg's assumption that Everyman thirsts for immortality a «religious a priori» which no longer applies to secular man, and has accused Pannenberg of creating a neat theology that bypasses real life and ignores real unbelief (metaphysical rabbits from real silk hats).

Such truths are «certified by meaning alone,» and so we can say that «God is the one individual conceivable a priori.»

Any two forces, provided both are positive, must a priori be capable of growth by merging together.

It is argued that all possible ways of justifying such a principle lead to difficulties: An empirical justification involves an infinite regress, while a metaphysical justification (one based on synthetic a priori categories) involves triviality or circularity (Popper 1959, Ch.

A priori, Christians are stupid, and you are in your damned right to mock them at every turn.

His biographer Rebecca Goldstein, who was a graduate student at Princeton during Gödel's last years, snickers that she and her peers «found it hilarious» that Gödel «deluded himself into believing that God's existence could be proved a priori.»

It is an indication that the institution of a state is not a priori good.

But there is no a priori necessity that the cosmos have developed in one particular fashion.

Even if the a priori probabilities of its happening the first time are virtually zero, Jacques Monod holds that it still might happen nonetheless.1 Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the amino and nucleic acids which life requires could already have been made plentifully available by rather «impersonal» natural processes.

To be freed from the parents is to be freed from religion, the religious a priori, religion as necessary, God as meeter of needs and solver of problems.

Instead of maintaining the balance of both these truths, these theologians chose rather to validate the political power a priori on a global scale.

Yet modern Christians are always prone to judge the state and to tell it what it ought to do — thus tacitly admitting that the state is valid, legitimate, and a priori capable of using force justly.

The breakdown of the religious a priori means that there is no way, ontological, cultural or psychological, to locate a part of the self or a part of human experience that needs God.

Thus I assert with Bonhoeffer the breakdown of the religious a priori and the coming of age of man.

There will always be battles when one or both are bogus; when dogma replaces interpretation based on experience, or when certain experiences are excluded a priori as, for example, when the mechanist excludes anything that can not be weighed or measured.

You are ignorant because you want to be and that is because you hold your a priori beliefs sacred over truth.

The doubt that the miracles occurred need not rest upon any a priori denial of the possibility of miracles.

Still another, more subtle, way of domesticating history's terror is simply to declare it and the universe, a priori, absolutely meaningless.

Of course he knows that his valuation of a person's demeanor has nothing to do with the validity of the argument, but he's willing to skip logic when he believes it helps him and his a priori position.

========== @Momoya» a thing or being can not be tested with the tools we currently have available, then there's no point in considering whether or not it exists» @Chad «Any entity existing outside our time and space would not be detectable according to the methodology you propose, as such you are a priori excluding that possibility, which of course is unscientific, right?

Is there any a priori reason to suppose that among people who view marriage as essentially sexual - romantic companionship or domestic partnership and who construct their lives and relationships in line with that view, polyamorous partnerships will be more unstable than monogamous ones?

If you have and still ask that question, then based on that and your prior communications, it might be assumed that you have certain a priori assumptions and read the Bible in such a way as to support those assumptions.