Sentences with phrase «sense as the idea»

The idea that dry food promotes dental health makes about as much sense as the idea that crunchy cookies would promote dental health in a human.

Not exact matches

And as Lunar's designers are freed to develop some of their own ideas into real, market - meeting products, Lunar will develop an identity founded on a greater sense of authorship.

«We believe Starbucks is an actionable idea here, as we sense the stress the Company felt over December, and into January, results has passed and that operational and sales initiatives are in place to allow a return to 3 % comps in 2H18 and beyond,» analyst John Ivankoe wrote in a note to clients Monday.

But if you think of selling as explaining the logic and benefits of a decision, then everyone — business owner or not — needs sales skills: to convince others that an idea makes sense, to show bosses or investors how a project or business will generate a return, to help employees understand the benefits of a new process, etc..

In particular, Boatright says the stakeholder idea should only be held up as an ideal, a source of a sense of mission, a motivator reminding corporate insiders that all participants need to find long - term benefit.

Gen Z is the first generation to grow up in an economy where the idea of becoming a social media influencer makes just as much sense as going to school and getting a business degree.

But its most fervent proponents are so desperate to maintain the illusion that they represent an oppressed majority (as if that makes any sense) that they've created copious fake accounts to artificially inflate the size of the movement, and even designed a cartoon female mascot named Vivian James to advance the idea that #notallwomen care about female representation in games.

There are some circumstances where a Roth conversion still might make sense, such as during a period of prolonged unemployment, but for those who are confident they'll be leaving their state when they retire, the vast majority of the time, a Roth conversion is simply a bad idea.

Ideas around the non-monetary aspects of employment in providing a self - image for people, giving them standing in the community, a sense of personal worth, a role as family provider, a network of peers, and way of life are not part of the economics curriculum, so can be assumed not to matter.

* Speaking of autopay, it's a good idea to get it set up as soon as makes sense for your budget, as you'll receive a 0.25 percent interest rate reduction for any Direct Loans you're repaying.

As one of the most successful investors in history, it makes sense to explore the principles and ideas he used to achieve his wealth.

The idea behind this theory is that, as big investors sense that smaller - cap, higher - beta stocks have reached a point of overvaluation and high risk, these investors move money from the overvalued stocks into the Dow stocks, which are traditionally considered more stable and more liquid.

Using «adult» as C.S. Lewis described it, a term of approval, can beget the idea that adulthood carries a sense of gravitas lacked by childhood.

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

Makes more sense to me than to try to believe God plopped Adam and Eve down, and then told them not to eat that one fruit, lest they die — as if they would have had any idea what death was (did your toddler understand «burn» before he got his first one?).

They should have faith that they have the better ideas as to both politics and policy, and that Republican primary voters will have the sense to see this.

That's an indoctrinated belief placed upon a natural human reaction, just as much as the Hindu idea that good deeds only make sense in the context of people trying to improve themselves through reincarnation, isn't it?

From a common sense perspective, I would say that the idea that sea life evolved into mammalian and other land dwelling life is just as miraculous as god creating distinct life is.

And so you must open all your senses, as it were» for, «In the last analysis,» writes Gadamer, «Goethe's statement «Everything is a symbol» is the most comprehensive formulation of the hermeneutical idea.»

Probably no one really believes that God is «omnipotent» in this sense, but the idea can reappear as an excuse for inaction in the face of evil.

«If the word «random» necessarily entails the idea that some events are «unguided» in the sense of falling «outside the bounds of divine providence,» we should have to condemn as incompatible with Christian faith a great deal of modern physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy, as well as biology,» he wrote.

At the other extreme are theologies that take the best of contemporary thought as normative and then explain what sense can be made of basic biblical ideas in this context.

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

Yet in the broad sense in which education means the shaping of ideas and ideals, it never ends as long as any mental flexibility remains.

Holding to evolution as the origin of the world and all that is therein makes good philosophical sense if and only if you reject the idea of a God... or even of gods.

This idea is so emphatic in the Gospels that it can easily be interpreted as individualistic in a narrow and imprisoning sense.

We too know Christ as Master and Savior and Lord, though we may no longer use some of the terms which the early Christians used, or though we may use them in a somewhat different sense, inasmuch as the ideas originally conveyed by them are no longer familiar and natural.

If something so important for each individual is dependent upon accepting / rejecting a supposed scriptural «truth» (as you define it) then make the case for how it makes any sense at all that humans would be judged negatively for rejecting something they have no idea exists!!

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

We are hopefully free from the illusion that there can be a «biblical theology» in the sense that all the themes and ideas present in the Bible can be brought to a harmonious unity, which can then be reaffirmed as true Christian theology.

Perhaps this idea is ambiguous, perhaps there is a sense in which God should be conceived as perfect, another sense in which perfection can not apply to God, because (it may be) this sense involves an absurdity or, in other words, is really nonsense.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

The idea of progress comes out of the sense of imperfection, as does the idea of God as transcendent.

Those regularly involved with ideas who regard themselves as without ideology, without some general pattern (s) of analysis out of which they make sense of experience, need either to think more deeply or — more likely — to stop fooling themselves.

And what ideas do you hold, in a positive sense, as opposed «not» hold?

A fact may be defined as something that occurred in reality, but at the solipsist state you can't talk of any reality beyond your own conscience, so the way you made yourself ready to dismiss solipsism as a philosophical idea, not a fact, simply doesn't make any sense.

We could then suppose that when Whitehead developed the idea of the consequent nature in the narrow sense, he created the «primordial nature» as a contrasting term This hypothesis would make sense of the present text of PR without supposing that Whitehead began working on the Gifford Lectures only with a noninteractive God little different from the abstract principle of concretion of SMW» (PS 15: 200).

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

The notion of truth as «correspondence of (interpretative) idea to (preinterpreted, given) reality» therefore makes no sense.

The Christian theologian therefore properly takes this belief as one of the «facts» to which a theological position should be adequate, even if it is not a fact in as strong a sense as hard - core commonsense ideas and very well - grounded scientific and historical ideas.

If that child were to die, then at that point the idea of karma might be introduced to try to ease the sense of loss, just as someone in the West might say «the child was spared further suffering».

In the book, I argue that it makes sense that if there's a God who loves and there's a God who created sex — which is an interesting idea in of itself — that what God has to say about this topic is important, and common sense actually supports the New Testament as it relates to sex.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquAs for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

It is clear from what has been said that the idea of «being chosen» is in reality a general religious principle, applicable to individuals as well as to groups, and in an analogous sense has relevance to all levels in the order of nature.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

Smith's translation of Buber's «Umkehr» as «reversal» does not adequately convey the idea of the Hebrew teshuvah, man's wholehearted turning to God, and it is in this sense that Buber has used «Umkehr» in earlier works («Die Erneuerung des Judentums,» «Zwiefache Zukunft.»

Mike, not me has just used your abhorrence at the idea of carrying out an act that his god specifically commands as an argument that you have instilled in you an objective sense of right and wrong... of which that same god is the source.