Sentences with phrase «significance of a particular thing»
Superst!tion: a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing [being], circ.umstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
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a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
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There is no longer any significance to any particular concrete new thing, but there is significance in the fact that there is so much quantity of the new.
It is this which gives Jesus his central place and role, and it is from this centrality, or particular «importance,» in our understanding and in our living, that the evaluation of Jesus himself, his significance in the total scheme of things, his continuing impact on successive generations of men and women, takes its rise.
Therefore, it is always first in terms of the essence of some very particular thing that a particular significance can be given to the concept of essence.