Sentences with phrase «such coherence»

It was very awesome to see such a coherent account of this emotion, and only a person like him could have managed such coherence where this emotion is concerned.

By demonstrating the presence of such coherence resulting from a capture of an incoherent electron, Prof. Krishnakumar and co-workers have shown that such coherence can also stem from the transfer of more than one value of angular momentum quanta.

So far researchers have used such coherence induced by laser beams to control molecular dissociation and have considered it as the basis for possible control of chemical reactions using photons.

Searching for such coherence, the doctrine of the Trinity has, in the last decades, proven to be especially open for analogies that seek to join together unity and diversity in God.9

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

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As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

Moral beliefs include such concepts as duty, obligation, responsibility, and sacredness of the person, while manners include such beliefs and needs as communal harmony, cultural coherence, and dignity of the person.

Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those of the constitution of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal evaluations.

A prior decay of theological coherence must first have set in for such options to present themselves and then prevail.

The sense that the kingdom was at hand and that a new age was dawning gives coherence to Jesus» ministry, but such a belief would have been controversial, just as a generation ago many white South Africans could not see how the apartheid regime could ever be changed.

Such a balance of distaste might well hint at the coherence and integrity of sectarian Christianity in the U.S., at least as it concerns such churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existeSuch a balance of distaste might well hint at the coherence and integrity of sectarian Christianity in the U.S., at least as it concerns such churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existesuch churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existence.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

But such internal bickering will also undermine the coherence of domestic and foreign policymaking.»

And as Feyerabend insists, we can not rule Out in advance the search for new unifying models (such as David Bohm's postulation of sub-atomic causal mechanisms), even though previous attempts have not yielded any new theories in better agreement with the data than quantum theory.11 Coherence remains an important ideal and criterion in all reflective enquiry.

While such considerations bear somewhat on the question of worth, the crucial issue is whether process theology is adequate — adequate to the requirement of logical coherence, and to the demands of modern religious perceptions, Christian and otherwise.

Such an approach empowers believing theologians, rather than pressures generated by secular thought, to set the theological agenda, and naturally inclines to maintaining the coherence of the Faith, with its hierarchy of truths and its four pillars (as evident in the four parts of the Catechism), as well as according appropriate status to pluralist or relativistconcerns and emphases.

Without such a systematic approach an historian will inevitably fail to see the internal coherence of notions that a superficial glance might otherwise misinterpret as contradictory.

Whitehead protests that while one may choose to use such a notion as a helpful abstraction, one can treat such absolute time as an actuality equal to all other actualities only at the expense of coherence.

Such moves often appear as ad hoc procedure in Whitehead's metaphysics, but the real issue at stake is the coherence and adequacy of the entire system.

For the scholars involved in such inquiries, a key concern was to test the coherence of Jesus» words with the message of the church.

As Whitehead puts the point, coherence «means that what is indefinable in one such notion can not he abstracted from its relevance to the other notions» (PR 3 / 5).

History, theology, and logical criteria such as coherence govern the choice of stories.

Failing such a center of universal coherence, not metaphorical or theoretical but real, there can be no true union among totalized Mankind, and therefore no true substance.

The depth and coherence of such divine love revealed to us through the Cross is perhaps most beautifully captured by that ancient hymn the Letter to the Philippians:

Our editorial overview of Christian formation in our multifarious Church suggests that the work for such basic coherence in Church teaching is one crucial aspect.

If, as Donald Davidson has taught us, hermeneutical charity is the effort to maximize the sense of views we oppose and to search for all possible areas of agreement whenever we engage a view whose truthfulness and coherence we doubt, then I feel bound to conclude — alas — that Wolterstorff's lecture lacks such charity almost entirely.

An actual entity can now be described under the aspect of emerging [werdenden] coherence: insofar as such an entity is an emergence of a unified connectedness of coherent factors from incoherent elements, it is the emergence of a totality of meaning whose inner factors have significance only within this whole: «An entity is actual, when it has significance for itself» (PR 38: 21st Category of Explanation).

In Whitehead's categoreal system coherence is the principle of rationality as such.

It is in such illustration that the «coherence» of argumentation may properly be said to consist.

Whitehead expressly denies the possibility of any such absolute analysis.23 On the other hand no such absolute analysis is a necessary condition for the functioning of coherence in the sense of a rational principle.

My general beliefs about how anger expresses itself in me and my degree of confidence in the veracity of these observers will introduce complex questions of consistency and coherence that will interact with such direct memories as I can elicit.

Such preaching is also to offer reassurances about the coherence of reality, but a reassurance that is not a legitimation of present arrangements, but an act of hope about another life - world available in the gospel.

The coherence of the argument (not a closed one, like a system of logic, but open, like a method or key to progressive research) is such that I believe only solid, positive reasons can lead to its rejection; and for my part I can see none that is adequate.

The fact that such irregular events as aid to Hispanic refugees can be typified as actions of plot gives evidence that congregational life possesses a larger coherence than its sequence of liturgies and standard programs by themselves suggest.

Thus each such unifying experience, being a transformation of the data available to that perspective from incoherence into coherence, would by definition specify a separate actual entity in the life of God.

This Platonic mode of explanation (if the mature Plato did sanction such an approach) seems as misguided as an attempt to explain the motions of football players by reference to the «coherence» or «formal possibility» of the interactions of their shadows.

But without the value of being a means to some end, a structure is radically unintelligible; it must always be somehow «mysterious,» as Wittgenstein suggested, that there is such a thing as formal coherence.

To do so would be perverse given that the Church considers some such tendencies to be disordered, and must do so for the coherence of her position.

If I needed to understand and teach the coherence of the mysteries of Christian faith, such as transubstantiation, or the Trinity as three subsistent persons in one «ousia,» then I simply could not afford a lean metaphysics.

Should we perhaps reconsider the coherence of such «intentions»?

The paradigmatic fictional works of the twentieth century either present accounts that make dramatic sense in themselves, but tell of events or sequences that could not occur in the world outside the storytelling; or they meticulously describe events that could occur or perhaps actually have occurred in «the real world,» but in such fashion as to display precisely their lack of dramatic coherence.

But there is also a meticulously realistic modernism that carefully reproduces pieces of the world out there, but in such fashion as either to tell a story that is impossible in the world, as in surrealism, or to alienate the depicted reality altogether from our quest for coherence.

Whilst we have seen great attacking play from Swansea this season at times their defence has lacked coherence and strength which has led to the Swans conceding very poor goals with prime reference being made to their fixture at Anfield the Sunday before their Carling Cup final triumph, if Arsenal catch Swansea on a day such as that tomorrow then it could well be to quote Gary Neville «bingo time» for Santi Cazorla with the quick footed Spaniard having the potential to put a disorientated and poorly organised defence to the sword.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

The Blairites — if, indeed, such a description still has any coherence — should perhaps have been better prepared for the possibility that Labour might have ended - up having a leadership contest in the latter half of 2015.

Unlike Lady Thatcher, Cameron lacks an alternative vision for government and consequently such fiery speeches lack coherence.

Treasury sources said it would be funded through spending cuts elsewhere, but critics questioned the coherence of offering free school meals for all young children, while taking the axe to other universal payments such as child benefit for the better - off.

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a high - resolution live imaging technique that can be used for early detection of retinal diseases, such as age - related macular degeneration, diabetes - related conditions, glaucoma or vascular occlusions, for example.

The reduction of the light coherence, by engineering the laser source or by recording and combining multiple holograms, were the two main investigated ways to address such problem.