Sentences with phrase «rather obvious difficulty»

One rather obvious difficulty was that both H and W were dead and thus their live testimony was not available.

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The term growth had the obvious difficulty of leading one to think of «created goods» rather than of «creative good» (the distinction made in The Source of Human Good) as the supreme value — Wieman's idea of idolatry.

The philosophy of absolute idealism, so vigorously represented both in Scotland and America to - day, has to struggle with this difficulty quite as much as scholastic theism struggled in its time; and although it would be premature to say that there is no speculative issue whatever from the puzzle, it is perfectly fair to say that there is no clear or easy - issue, and that the only obvious escape from paradox here is to cut loose from the monistic assumption altogether, and to allow the world to have existed from its origin in pluralistic form, as an aggregate or collection of higher and lower things and principles, rather than an absolutely unitary fact.

If man's capacity for receptivity is no longer polarized around sound and person but rather around sight and object, the difficulties for the preaching task, are all too obvious.