Sentences with phrase «rather than an explanation»

It is this single fundamental argument rather than the explanations of the five arguments in its terms that is important to us in understanding contemporary Thomist natural theology.

(For instance... you felt my response was merely a «put down» rather than an explanation as to why I felt you were not being objective in your reasoning)

It appears to be your opinion, rather than an explanation of fact 2.)

This allows us to see what APHIS did, rather than their explanation.

in other words the echo chamber effect is more a byproduct of the mechanism rather than an explanation of the mechanism itself

explanation by process rather than explanation by cause ie El Nino's, Stadium waves, sequestered deep heat which is suddenly found in data everyone has looked at and said it did not exist in before [Chen and Tung's argument].

Unlike social websites that rely on a limited number of characters to increase brand awareness and product availability, newer sites like Pinterest and Gentlemint focus instead on graphics rather than explanations through words.

Not exact matches

Rather than ascribe it to «sell on the news,» which is the most likely explanation after a strong week, some insisted it was a warning sign.

But his non-responses had launched Brown's shame triggers — appearance and body image — and thus her made - up explanation for Steve's seemingly indifferent answers was filled with her own shame, rather than the real reason.

Unfortunately, rather than admit a mistake, the Federal Government issued a complicated (and ultimately false) explanation why iPods and other electronic devices will not cost more.

Or perhaps there's another explanation for why the increases took place in late winter rather than the usual price hike season, just before the kids get out of school.

Our «Conundrum in the Conundrum» theme questioned this outlook, viewing it better as an explanation for what had already happened rather than an outlook.

Rather than opening acknowledging structural weaknesses in the economy when it fails to meet whatever metric the Fed has previously targeted, the FOMC instead simply revises its expectations without explanation.

It also warned that «Wankebi is only a pitch of explanation for these applications, rather than a theme of speculation.»

The standard explanations in the legal community emphasize the fierce competition for business among law firms that began when clients started to shop around for the best deal, rather than maintaining their traditional ties with a single firm.

Some think that the bible tells them that the earth has to be less than 10,000 years old rather than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.

Rather than go with the same old explanation offered by the religious that has proven itself false in the past?

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

They do because they want an explanation so badly they'd rather had one they made up with no reason to believe it than admit they just don't know the cause.

(For example, given Wright's understanding of what the Reformers meant by «literal,» I wonder if they wouldn't be open to scholarship that interprets Genesis 1 as an ancient Near Eastern temple text — see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One — rather than a scientific explanation for origins.)

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

The explanation of this contrast lies in the fact that historic Christian thought in this regard, as in others, has been Greek rather than Hebrew.

A similar approach has been employed in recent catechetical courses, such as Anchor and Evangelium, in which religious ideas and understandings are approached initially through paintings rather than verbal explanations.

those who have already decided that God does not exist and that all processes must have a naturalistic explanation, do not see the obvious evidence that the universe was designed, rather than happened by chance.

Perhaps this was due in part to the debased meaning of apology as excuse rather than its proper sense of confident explanation.

Surely this fact of experience was the given requiring explanation, rather than the other way around.

But these explanations focus on psychological factors rather than providing insight into the institutional contexts in which ideas are actually produced, paid for, brought into contact with an interested audience, enacted in collective rituals, used to mobilize resources against competing ideologies, and embedded in social arrangements.

Personally, I am in awe of the idea of time as a creator rather than a third grader mentalty explanation of an invisible super being.

That several books or bodies of literature of crucial importance for theology appeared in close proximity to one another still impresses me as coincidental or providential rather than subject to a single sociological explanation.

I take it as established that, for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.

It appears that McGrath has got too sucked into the Popperian insight that human understandings of the world are «theory laden» (p. 61)-- wherein human culture rather than human nature is made not just intrinsic to explanations of observations, but determinative.

When presented with an explanation of the text that challenges our own explanation, our immediate defensive position is to say, «Well, that's wrong because they are importing their own human interpretation into the text rather than letting the text speak for itself the way I do.»

The phenomenon shows fluctuations of populations rather than evolution, and even creationists have pointed this out (Kofahl and Segraves, The Creation Explanation, 1975).

In response to my negative reply he offered the explanation that I had been trying to imitate his swing, that I had been playing his style rather than my own, and that I had lost my identity.

Even an explanation of the actual «big bang theory» (not just popular understanding), something truly existing out of nothing (rather than just not knowing yet where it came from), is absolutely awe inspiring.

For sound explanation it is essential that we look for genuine congruity between God and his world, rather than that we attempt to find ways in which God can be removed from all contact with and reflection in that world and hence treated as nothing other than the great «exception».

Rather we are well reminded that the Judaeo - Christian God is the immediate sustainer of all, and that to give a scientific explanation is more evidence for the Creator than against him.

There is thus a principled reason for regarding God rather than the universe as the terminus of explanation.

The most reasonable explanation is that it is characteristic of Jesus rather than the early Church, but that Paul knows the tradition preserved in Luke and, as a bilingual Jew, fully appreciates its significance.

Consequently when in the life of the church cultural forms triumph over religious content and faith disappears, and when in the course of time men begin to wonder what content these forms were originally intended to symbolize, the historic explanations which they will advance will be given in terms of national or racial destiny rather than in terms of a rediscovered religious truth.

I know crazy but its something to think about since there is no ultimate explanation as to why we even exist, even if you take science to its root there is no explanation for why anything actually exists at all, after all you can't get something from nothing so I had rather have something than nothing.

that isn't because I necessarily totally buy into the Friedman ans Schwartz explanation for why the slowdown of 1929 turned into a Great Depression rather than a sharp recession.

This is a trouble I have over explanation by motivation as reasons for doing one thing rather than another.

Once process philosophers and theologians have mastered the jargon and technical intricacies of Whitehead's thought, they generally prefer to share the intellectual excitement of their work with each other, rather than to attempt repeated explanations for the benefit of the uninitiated.

It is an exercise in the analysis and interpretation of cultural meaning rather than in sociological explanation, though some of the latter is necessarily present.

It offers a theological diagnosis of church culpability and possibility rather than a social explanation of decline.

This was based on axiomatic assumptions rather than formulation of explanations that deal adequately with what was once attributed to God.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».