Sentences with phrase «proposition as an instance»

And I continue to be impressed by how many otherwise sensible people criticize that proposition as an instance of uncritical chauvinism rather than the carefully nuanced moral judgment that it is.

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At least as a general proposition, we are prepared to suggest, for instance, that the faithfully married are morally superior to rapists.

They may object, for instance, to the proposition that God loves the creatures on the ground that it is a strange love which expresses itself by acting as God does, inflicting upon the loved ones numerous sufferings, the well - behaved ones being victims along with the wicked or unkind.

A proposition is not a pure essence; though it does not give information as to how it actually functions in particular instances (like an eternal object) it does gesture towards how it could function in concrete occasions.

In these terms, the proposition that Jesus lives on subjectively is the supreme instance of some more general proposition as to individual survival after death: to reach a decision as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept of resurrection, which lies beyond our present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls of the righteous» live on subjectively.

For instance the community may be exhorted to believe something such as the proposition that Jesus is indeed the Christ.

As comfy, refined and (in some instances) extremely frugal the Lexus ES is, the true calling card of this mid-sized sedan is its value proposition.

That leaves many science educators free to include climate change in courses however they want — by, for instance, teaching the scientific consensus on climate change, or explicitly advocating skepticism as a valid scientific proposition as Heartland does.

Just as the scientist takes his instances and from them builds up his general propositions, so the lawyer should take his precedents and from them build up his general principles...