Sentences with phrase «seeming arbitrariness»

In its seeming arbitrariness, it's like the answer to the question of what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything, which happens, as I'm sure you know, to be 42.)

I could not get a clear explanation for the high rate — my credit score of 745 was apparently not enough to get a lower variable rate with my bank (I will likely do a separate post on this issue, because the seeming arbitrariness and imprecision of credit scores is something that has been irritating me for many years).

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The monarchical type of sovereignty was, for example, so ineradicably planted in the mind of our own forefathers that a dose of cruelty and arbitrariness in their deity seems positively to have been required by their imagination.

If process theology were freed from Whitehead's «strain of arbitrariness,» it would seem to be compatible with Buchler's metaphysical principles.

What those who deny Obama's «blackness» seem to ignore is that categories like this are inherently social and political constructions with a high degree of arbitrariness (on which, see, amongst many writings, Hari Kunzru's wonderful book, THE IMPRESSIONIST, and E.M. Forster's war - time essay, «Racial Exercise»).

Your belief in the inevitability of arbitrariness seems to be a consequence from a lack of understanding of the potentiality from this option.