Sentences with phrase «such meaningless term»

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If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

And that is much more useful than David simply providing a new definition for two reasons: he's seeking not necessarily to redefine, but to challenge already existing inconsistencies between our use of the words and how people actually function, AND because such terms are given their meaning collectively so redefining it alone would be meaningless because it wouldn't draw on people's real experience with their beliefs and views of the labels.

All such phrases are, strictly, meaningless except in terms of some system of notions or concepts.

Green is now a meaningless term because we have debased it to such an extent by calling everything green.

The fact this is seemingly not fully recognized — or here integrated — by Curry goes to the same reason Curry does not recognize why the so called «pause» is a fiction, why the «slowing» of the «rate» of increase in average ambient global land and ocean surface air temperatures over a shorter term period from the larger spike beyond the longer term mean of the 90s is also meaningless in terms of the basic issue, and why the average ambient increase in global air temperatures over such a short term is by far the least important empirical indicia of the issue.