Sentences with phrase «rather than an assertion»

It wouldn't be evidence, but it would help the concept to actually be a valid option rather than an assertion.

Working mothers are more likely to use an authoritative approach that relies on reason rather than assertions of parental power, contends University of Michigan psychologist Lois W. Hoffman, co-author of «Mothers at Work: Effects of Children's Well - Being» (Cambridge University Press).

It's amazing what happens to your thinking when you become evidence - based rather than assertion - based in your approach.

Simulations like this are proofs of concept only — illustrations of possibilities rather than assertions of fact.

Not exact matches

The outspoken founder of Kynikos Associates has heavily criticized Valeant for its general approach to business as a drug maker — including his assertion that the company has relied on acquisitions rather than R&D in order to grow its pipeline.

If you admit the value of the scientific method, if you value the process of questioning assumptions, and requiring evidence to support assertions, rather than the idea of holding assertions because they are plesant, then your beliefs should be tossed out.

Rather than assuming and stating as fact that BC is dogmatic in his assertions because he secretly harbors doubts which he is attempting to either drown out by increasing his volume or find answers for by remaining on this site, NP asks him if that might be the case.

[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are, of course, warranted.]

When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».

Anyone who makes the assertion that scripture is clear is speaking either from ignorance or desired outcome rather than evidence.

Metaphor always has the character of is and is not: an assertion is made but as a likely account rather than a definition.»

Nygren gives an important suggestion about the history of doctrine when he says that the Church Fathers were saved from falling completely into a Greek pattern of thought by the three biblical assertions of Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection.32 But rather than conclude, as Nygren does, that these themes require us to reject all metaphysics, why not say that they require us to reconsider our metaphysics?

Allen offers the case that the Declaration of Independence is a syllogism for political equality, rather than a manifesto of unlinked assertions.

The assertion of a completely naturalistic metaphysic would then represent the end point, rather than the starting point, of all inquiry and discussion.

Consequently, if metaphysics can be established at all, it is only as a transcendental metaphysics, whose concepts and assertions are all purely formal and literal, rather than analogical, in the sense that they apply to all the different things within any single logical type whose meaning they explicate, not in different senses, but rather in the same sense.

So all you have is more empty platitudes, assertions, and reiterations rather than actually demonstrating anything you say is even likely to be true.

His proposals regarding religion amount to assertions concocted on the basis of evolutionary hunches rather than conclusions proceeding from carefully constructed arguments.

It was the rule rather than the exception that I found myself in agreement with Farrow's assertions (especially theses eleven and thirteen).

Felix, I'm not sure there was assertion that only Christians voted for GW Bush, rather merely that the Christians who did vote for GW Bush tend to wear their religion on the sleaves and push their agenda more so than others.

Before we can explain why persons might be persuaded by Christian theism rather than, say, Romantic harmony with nature or Nietzsche's defiant assertion of the self's powers, we have to understand how any of those systems could articulate ways that persons actually live.

Yet, approaching the truth affirmed by Christianity as some abstract, objective assertion to be tested, simply demonstrates that the questioner is approaching this query as a problem to be pondered, dissected, and solved, rather than a mystery to inhabit and be transformed by.»

[9] Rather than being willful self - assertion, his gift of self needs to be «disinterested,» i.e. not self - centred, but for the sake of the other who was willed by the Creator «for his / her own sake», and who has a destiny in God.

But there's an air of assertion about the Frenchman's moves in the transfer market, and the possibility of all the new signings clicking into gear sooner rather than later.

His assertions focused on the pattern of symptoms rather than the similarity of them.

I'm more likely to agree with your assertion above re: the impact of Salsa potentially being available for conservative groups rather than Change.org (although I'm definitely disturbed by the possibility of the former, having worked there and continuing to work extensively helping prog.

If the UK's influence in the world is to be maintained, the government must demonstrate in a clear and convincing way that these reductions have been offset by identifiable improvements elsewhere rather than imprecise assertions of an increased reliance on diplomacy and «soft power».

Lillikas's assertion that Cypriots would rather leave the euro than meet the troika's demands are backed up by an opinion poll published on Thursday.

Sen. Toby Stavisky criticized the governor's assertion that potential budget cuts in Washington were a reason to pass a two - month extender rather than the briefer ones that have been the norm in the past.

So his assertion that David supports Brown (see 5.10 pm) appears to be speculative, rather than an authoritative statement about the foreign secretary's position.

But the assertion that Ms. DeWitt was doing a disservice, rather than doing her job, was met with a shock in some quarters, and a scramble by the governor's own aides to clarify his remarks.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

Mr Darling, who heads the Better Together campaign, accused First Minister Alex Salmond of «making claims and assertions», rather than providing facts.

I think people should be serious with some of these things with respect to the total benefits to the people rather than playing unnecessary politics and making unfounded and illogical assertions.»

Now that the NAACP has ratified its call for a charter moratorium, charter proponents are continuing the barrage of invective and unfounded assertions rather than taking stock of their opposition's arguments.

Which I have now read, and it's interesting to note that EC is specifically stating that the assertions that EC authors aren't getting paid are false, and they seem to be trying to make a case for the DA post being a cause for EC authors having a panic rush — rather than oh, say, EC authors themselves reporting that this shit is going down and DA's post reacting to that.

To back up the assertion that this is looking at total accounts in your credit history rather than just those that are open, my Mint report shows 2 open accounts and 7 closed accounts, for a total of 9.

I have seen discussion time and again about how the subscription model has to focus on keeping you subscribed, so I would say that your assertion is a fallacy itself, a straw man to argue against, rather than something that one might take seriously.

The assertion that the Cubist depiction of space, mass, time, and volume supports (rather than contradicts) the flatness of the canvas was made by Daniel - Henry Kahnweiler as early as 1920, [12] but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg.

The artist describes his process as: «Letting a thing come, rather than creating it — no assertions, constructions, formulations, inventions, ideologies — in order to gain access to all that is genuine, richer, more alive: to what is beyond my understanding.»

They rely on patient judgment and revision rather than brash assertion, and in doing so represent a more promising continuation of the experiments that defined painting as the New York School understood it.

Rather than coming in like a bull in a china shop and assuming no one else has thought about the future, this person can help improve team dynamics by asking questions before making assertions.

Rather than fixed formats or object - defying endgames, Wragg brings together a dizzying cacophony of assertions: the charged color relations of the central passage, the angularity of the stickman - like form merging into a neo-Cubist grid, the cartoonish ladder and the graffiti - like arabesques whose casualness belies their subtle relation to the underlying tectonic ruptures.

A meditation on the new forms of expression and knowledge that artists can offer society, this draws on Sol LeWitt's assertion that «conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists.

Rather than running through all your comment, I will take a single exemplar from my critique of the video and your contrary assertions.

> I think that your comments have a bit of «begging the question» about them, in suggesting that the necessity of expanding nuclear power to reduce GHG emissions from electricity generation is an established fact, upon which any «debate» about addressing AGW must be based — rather than an unproven assertion to be argued.

Unfortunately the human cognition seems to be wired to lazy logical fallacies rather than engaging in the mental effort to check assertions and facts properly.

If serious issues are raised, rather than just flat assertions, they do get addressed.

That you employ a question mark is suggestive of you wanting an answer rather than making an assertion.

Instead of then endeavouring to locate a source, Osborn stated that he would not search through «hundreds of comments» to try to find support for his assertion — though surely this is something that he should have done before making the comment, rather than after.

First, though, I would ask you to cite specific references and quantitative data to support them, rather than merely assertions.