Sentences with phrase «questions about these assumptions»

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

What perhaps bothered me most is that I think we have stopped asking questions about our assumptions concerning the value of all this technology.

Now, recently, there've been some questions about that assumption, but there's no question about the toxicity of inorganic arsenic, which you can get more of from rice.

Now there are questions about that assumption.

But the absence of a relationship between average school test scores and incumbents» electoral fortunes in the 2002 and 2004 school board elections raises important questions about the assumptions underlying accountability systems.

They prefigure Blinky Palermo's Stoffbilder paintings, begun in Germany in 1966, and raise questions about the assumptions of painting that would come to the fore in the following decade in the West: the relationship between support, frame, and picture plan; the notion of surface flatness; the implication of readymade, found, or commercial form; and the belief of artist as creator.

So, it would seem there are questions about the assumption that drive your «logical» conclusion.

I have some serious methodological questions about the assumptions used in such a calculus, but Will explains that looking at amortized costs doesn't even matter:

Not exact matches

They stimulated you to think about new ways of doing things, allowed you to question assumptions, and never criticized you for making mistakes.

Not long ago Gregersen asked Guy Wollaert, former chief innovation officer and chief technology officer at Coca - Cola, about the questions that made him challenge his assumptions — and subsequently led to big - picture insights.

And it would not be until they questioned their own most basic assumptions about «the way Magellan's was managed» — the company's dependence on them, the heroic - leader model they'd brought into the company from day one — that they would have a shot at doing what few founders can when the wall confronts them: getting through it.

Many veterans are asked questions that make assumptions about their service — rather than ones that invite them to share their stories, skills and experiences.

«I'm fascinated by questioning and researching fundamental assumptions people make about how consumers behave, and the counterproductive things that marketers do,» said Bower.

Finally, if you want to narrow down the process and confirm your assumptions, asking a question like «So how does ABC Co. typically go about assessing and implementing a program / product / solution like this?»

I wonder if the interviewer realizes how much her questions stem from assumptions about this woman's identies.

No question about it, the listening is demanding, not only because of the writer's rhetorical style but also because of the assumption that the reader knows the Old Testament and the wilderness life of Israel, a life centered in the tabernacle and the daily ministrations of the priest.

They make assumptions, and ask me to represent all blacks by answering that age old question, «what are black people so mad about?»

When my father died, shortly after I was ordained a priest, I discovered that I had many more questions than answers and that some very safe assumptions about the goodness and permanence of life had been shattered.

These hidden assumptions come to light only when we begin to ask such questions as: What are those things that we never have to ask about?

But had I not aggressively questioned my assumptions about him, I might have remained in that dark and scary place where I pretended to love and adore God, but secretly feared and despised him.

kendall, you're question makes an assumption about something of which you have not even taken the time to realize how flawed it is.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Instead of claiming to be the Answer, go out and find some questions first, because you've clearly never had any about this subject (your pre / assumptions are profoundly unfortunate).

Good point about questioning the core assumption: is the church institution relevant?

The point of the post was to address the common assumption that doubt is typically a result of sin or a guilty conscience and that we should treat people with thoughtful questions about their faith with suspicion.

«But Jesus used very provocative images in the stories he would tell to incite people to ask hard questions about their own assumptions.»

Reynolds also highlights some of Akyol's oversimplified rhetoric, as when he calls the Paul / James divide «historical fact,» and questions some of Akyol's debatable assumptions about the prominence of Jewish Christianity in Muhammad's Arabia (a point that Reynolds is especially qualified to debate).

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

On the other hand, Rolf Hochhuth's 1963 play The Deputy, which builds on the plausible assumption that the Pope did know about the mass extermination of the Jews from 1942 on, raised the question of why the Pope didn't publicly condemn what the Nazis were doing to the Jews.

Yet it also raises some questions about a frequent assumption: that during the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, the world was silent and largely apathetic, and that mobilizing an effective response to such crises depends largely on informing people and getting them to care about what is happening elsewhere.

The university is so committed to the exclusion of metaphysics from its purview that it is extremely difficult to raise questions there about basic assumptions.

Where used at all, the cross functions not as an answer to atrocity, but as a question, protest and critique of the assumptions we may have made about profound suffering.

The second reason to question the Cartesian assumptions about nature came with the inability of those assumptions to account for new developments in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Other questions include wrong assumptions about free housing and education from the US Government.

Questions may be raised about both of these assumptions.

The cause of this uneasiness becomes clearer if we question Ignatieff's argument at several points: the validity of the moral paradigm itself, the assumptions from which he proceeds, the inconsistencies in how he describes the limits to be observed in doing the «lesser evil,» and his conclusions about specific elements of the war on terror.

Maybe someone questioned Jesus about the new age he described, and thought that this new rabbi was wrong to be destroying common assumptions.

Best Interview: Rachel Stone at Her.Meneutics interviews William Webb about egalitarianism «Webb: I think this question betrays two incorrect assumptions.

In the concluding sections of this paper, I want to raise questions about these tacit assumptions.

She's right; it really doesn't have to be that way (and the idea of going into a marriage with «a lot of intent and questioning your own assumptions» is exactly what Susan Pease Gadoua and I are writing about in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Cynics, Commitaphobes and Connubial DIYers).

But if you pay attention and go into with a lot of intent and questioning your own assumptions about why you're supposed to do anything... it just doesn't have to be that way.

It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from «doing to» to «working with» parenting — including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people.

She joins Marti for this lively discussion about youth sports, questioning many assumptions, calling out unhelpful parental behavior and challenging us to step up and use proven approaches to help our children reap optimal benefits of organized sports.

I love that open adoption made me question assumptions I had about myself and what makes a family, and then helped us start one of our own.

Machiavelli fully endorses Livy's assumption that the fundamental question to ask, when thinking about political liberty, is about the distinction between freedom and servitude, and he further agrees that the arbitrary power wielded by the early kings of Rome left the citizen body living as slaves.

So we should be asking ourselves the fundamental question: if [our basic assumptions about what type of individuals appear suspicious] lead us to be right only 5 % of the time, shouldn't the criteria we are using to apprehend individuals be revised?

Setting up your question with the assumption that libetarians are «right» suggests that this question is more about pushing your point of view rather than seeking an answer.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

Non-ideal theorists often draw on Rawls's own work to distinguish between ideal questions and cases where we can not make idealising assumptions about the motives of those engaged in the search for principles of justice.

It's the deeply - ingrained disdain that Grenfell residents and others complain bitterly about — the dismissal of people's concerns about homelessness and housing standards, council refusals to respond to questions, and a general assumption by authorities that people who need housing help exaggerate their troubles, or even lie.