Sentences with phrase «suppositions in»

Also were my suppositions in my previous comment correct?

Midgley, a retired philosophy professor from Newcastle, has published many provocative and insightful books in the past 15 years, combating various streams of uncritically accepted suppositions in science, ethics, philosophy and modern culture as well.

Do you not see the numerous suppositions in your December 29, 2012 at 3:22 pm post that make honest discussion impossible?

If my suppositions in point # 1 are wrong, and there really is a difference, and are not reconcilable on any level, here or in the world to come, then I adopt the attitude of Romans 14 — the weaker brother.

KJMaines — There are an awful lot of suppositions in your comment.

Postmodernism is characterized by the loss of this supposition in all of its aspects.

Curated by ICA Senior Curator Dan Byers along with Curatorial Associate Jeffrey De Blois, the 2017 Foster Prize engages Donald Judd's 1975 supposition in «Imperialism, Nationalism, and Regionalism» that «for local art, you need a whole culture.»

Not exact matches

Michael's post seems to have three suppositions: Chinese companies price capital incorrectly; Chinese companies invest in value destroying projects; There is no correcting accounting mechanism in China for these projects as exist in other countries, thusly Chinese GDP inflates «real» growth and debt servicing ability.

I'm not going to debate you on the content, except to say that this portrays a Jesus not found in the Bible, and confirms suppositions of a judgmental and graceless faith.

In the heady days of protest the seminary faculty and students could suppose that their movement was free and spontaneous — a supposition that Tietjen, retrospectively reflecting on events, terms a «myth» about the origins of Seminex.

The error of the Colossians that Paul was addressing in his letter was their supposition that there were thrones, dominions, principalities and powers» which had a life of their own.

It was the supposition that these authorities had a life quite apart from any activity of God in the world.

Three: If these essays are written to deepen process theology as a mode of systematic theology on the supposition that a theology is truncated if its rootage in Scripture is not clear, then it is crucial to be clear — in ways in which these essays do not make it clear — how process hermeneutics warrants any judgments about what is normative for Christian theology.

It is, as George Herbert Mead has said, a way of «taking time seriously «17 to the point that no definable space in the mechanistic sense can be designated, or fixed, except as a supposition for purposes which require one to arrest the process, which is to assume that time does not matter or that it does not exist.

For it would seem that the arguments from order and from contingency either rest on a misunderstanding of what an explanation is, or more likely, on an arbitrary supposition that man's experience is intelligible precisely in this way.

A case in point is the supposition that the numbering of days in Genesis is to be understood in an arithmetical sense.

(29) What Protestant liberalism, Bultmannianism and liberation theology all have in common is the supposition that the modem context determines how we should or how we can read the biblical narrative.

Prove it based on ANYTHING else but this MUST «supposition», this «faith» that it MUST be so (isn't that what you no doubt accuse theists of doing: believing based on supposition / faith in something outside observable reality?).

Given certain suppositions about the randomness of our sampling, we may formulate statistical expectations about the color of the marbles still remaining in the bag.

In this connection an absolutely crucial resource is provided by the machinery of supposition, assumption, and hypothesis.

We can, however, describe the forms of the sentences we use in expressing these judgments, decisions, suppositions, and emotions, and attempt to describe how these sentences are used in communication situations and how their constituent subjects and predicates function.

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

In my scientific suppositions I have proposed that their were once immeasurably unknown amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of spatial relativisms that is Nothingness itself... Such a theory regarding unknowable amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of continual Nothingness just may well be the missing mathematical linkage for explaining the hindering smallness of celestial issues that has confounded many astrophysicists who endeavor to seek a mathematical formulary in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos.In my scientific suppositions I have proposed that their were once immeasurably unknown amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of spatial relativisms that is Nothingness itself... Such a theory regarding unknowable amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of continual Nothingness just may well be the missing mathematical linkage for explaining the hindering smallness of celestial issues that has confounded many astrophysicists who endeavor to seek a mathematical formulary in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos.in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos...

I would go further: in the absence of such historical controls, we are lured into just the kind of dubious suppositions — for example, about allegedly increased defections from oldline to conservative — that have plagued recent discussions.

I read the entire post of PAM, and I see nothing and nowhere in his post that he said that, nor making a supposition of it.

Or there was the supposition that they would need to have gleaned something of the original revelation of the Garden of Eden in order to have some possible object of faith.

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

In these and many other ways the supposition that policies guided by justice should conflict with those guided by sustainability can be shown to be factually and dangerously wrong.

In this instance, the Sorbonne Faculty «accepted and approved» scientific knowledge, even knowledge contrary to Scripture, for it was but «philosophical supposition.»

When questioned in the September interview about whether his rhetoric has incited anti-LGBT violence over the years, Lively called such suppositions «a leap.»

The wholesale labeling of inner - city children was, at least, resisted strongly in the past by influential and respected intellectuals; much of that resistance has collapsed in recent years, and many of these suppositions about «differentness go almost uncontested.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

It hardly follows from the supposition of a providential design in history that finite human beings have the ability to discern the design.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

On this supposition, however, the proto - history of man can not be thought of as extending for some length of time in the pure condition in which God had established man.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Whatever preposition you put between Christ and culture, its mere presence there marks and enforces the supposition that Christ and culture are entities different in kind.

Moreover apophatic theology, based on the supposition that God can be known to us only in terms of what He is not, is an integral part of the Church's heritage.

Thus it is a wholly false supposition that Jesus» belief concerning God marks an especially high level in humanity's developing consciousness of God, that to him — as some one has expressed it — God became the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

I hope that the course of these lectures will confirm us in this supposition.

At any rate real understanding of the problem is precluded if the futurity of the Kingdom is minimized, as by the supposition that belief in the coming Kingdom is based on the firm foundation of belief in the creation, and that the Kingdom of God is simply the consummation of the creation.

I'm simply saying that if we start at a supposition that the God of Abraham did create this universe, and that the flood story might be true, then what evidence do we have in any direction about his possible past dealings or ethics that can be verified?

As Hartshorne also points out, «The supposition that our power of «introspection» is absolute, so that, unless we can consciously detect a factor in an experience it does not contain the factor, is one of the many forms of the supposition that man is as God would be — equipped with infallibility» (CSPM 79).

True to process thought, Screwtape implies that the world is a process of becoming in which transience and activity are fundamental; he further indicates that the only eternal aspect of the Future is the question of potentialities which may or may not be actualized; and he indirectly supports Whitehead's supposition that the justification of any system of thought lies in its ability to organize and elucidate immediate experience.

In the last analysis is it not a supposition?

Acknowledging, nevertheless, that the scientific method itself is dependent upon faith in the amenability of evidence to scientific inquiry and supposition.

Much confusion about love results from the supposition that what is in time and unfinished can not be loved as fully as that which is complete.

On that supposition, my main point is that the use (however longstanding) of the term remedium concupiscentiae to signify an end of marriage has had a profoundly negative effect on married life, inasmuch as it suggests that lust is «remedied» or at least «legitimised» by marriage; in the sense either of automatically disappearing once one marries, or else of no longer being a self - centeredelement hostile to the growth of married love.

«8 Whereas Whitehead speaks of past occasions as «functioning» in the self - creation of new occasions, Leclerc tells us that in Whitehead's systematic position this «functioning» can not imply agency.9 He adds: «This should be stressed because the contrary supposition might arise from Whitehead's statement... that upon objectification an actual entity «acquires causation whereby it is a ground of obligation characterizing creativity».»

This supposition was confirmed in 1960 when there was a «religious issue» in the campaign.