Sentences with phrase «somewhat arbitrary way»

In fact, to Richard, the claim that the divine properties are identical to each other and to God depends on the somewhat arbitrary way «one divides up the properties of a thing (how many properties one says that some thing has)» and that applies to all things, not only to God.

Not exact matches

Our choice of two — J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away — is therefore somewhat arbitrary, but not entirely, for so much has been written about such novels as The Brothers Karamazov and The Sound and the Fury, and the stories of Alyosha and Dilsey are such perfect illustrations of the parabolic way, that they are almost too easy.

Everybody knows that tax systems are somewhat arbitrary, few people willingly pay their taxes, and most would probably go out of their way to avoid them.

@pluckedkiwi When it comes down to it, what we define as a «humane» way of attacking the enemy is somewhat arbitrary.

«If there is a way to grade schools that can realistically take into account different demographics of schools, that's one thing, but that's still attaching Draconian consequences to what are inevitably somewhat arbitrary scores.»

Although the way Undercover is organized seems somewhat arbitrary, the art itself is worth a trip to the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

Framed in this way, total emissions of a trillion tonnes of carbon will lead to a most likely warming of 2 °C, a somewhat arbitrary, but widely accepted limit on the amount of warming that the world can endure without a high risk of catastrophic consequences.

While this may seem like an efficient way to save for home repairs, critics of this rule of thumb argue that the amount set aside is somewhat arbitrary, and doesn't account for a wide variety of factors, such as the age of your home, whether most of the value of your home is in the land itself, whether your home is attached or single family, etc..