Sentences with phrase «relation to human measure»

It asks whether we are not confined to the circle of human relativity which dictates that all our claims be prefaced with the qualification, «in relation to human measure.»

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This is not just any old you, though what is true in this case may well be true in a measure in relation to human yous as well.

Among the large number of available studies measuring developmental achievements in relation to diet, no suggestions are ever made of any intellectual or other neurological detriments associated with absence of formula supplements or human milk fortifiers, even when there is slower premature infant growth.

-- which invites answers measuring how well non-western countries fare in relation to a presumed model of western secularism — I start from liberal democratic ideals and assume that they are not ethnocentric: human rights, freedom, equality and democracy are universal aspirations.

The biosphere's public relations team tried to put a brave face on the situation, announcing that the «experiment in measuring human adaptation to lower oxygen levels» was ending.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Dr Reese (14:17:05): By what measure of heat output by humans in relation to the total energy received by the Sun is going to tip the planets climate, and how on Earth did you come up with that?

When Descartes» analytical geometry treated space and extension, the res extensa of nature and the world, so «that its relations, however complicated, must always be expressible in algebraic formulae,» mathematics succeeded in reducing and translating all that man is not into patterns which are identical with human, mental structures... Now the phenomena could be saved only in so far as they could be reduced to a mathematical order, and this mathematical operation does not serve to prepare man's mind for the revelation of true being... that appear in the sensually given data, but serves, on the contrary, to reduce these data to the measures of the human mind, which, given enough distance, being sufficiently remote and uninvolved, can look upon and handle the multitude and variety of the concrete in accordance with its own patterns and symbols....

The Human Rights Committee, in relation to minority and Indigenous rights under ICCPR explained that countries joining ICCPR must take steps to protect those rights «With regard to the exercise of the cultural rights protected under article 27, the Committee observes that culture manifests itself in many forms, including a particular way of life associated with the use of land resources, especially in the case of Indigenous peoples... The enjoyment of those rights may require positive legal measures of protection», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 7.