Sentences with phrase «symbolic sense by»

Charmed by her evident beauty and apparent clumsiness, he proceeds to flirt outrageously, demonstrating his enormous appetite in both a literal and symbolic sense by placing an elaborate breakfast order that he impishly requests she commit to memory.

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What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

The name Muhammad is thus used in a non-sectarian, trans - religious and symbolic sense to refer to a higher, deeper and essential God - man correspondence exhibited by sainthood.

Universal Algebra, in precisely this sense, is a poor framework for mathematics insofar as it unites spatial manifolds and symbolic logic by introducing the common notion of an algebraic manifold (Whitehead's terminology) or a semi-group (current standard terminology), an object with very little structure or intrinsic interest.9 In this case, generalization comes at the expense of abstract sterility.

Christ's forty days in the wilderness following his baptism by John the Baptist were often interpreted as symbolic of purification and renewal before beginning his ministry, and the monks who withdrew to the desert were in a sense following his example.

Both «symbolic reference» and «propositional feelings» have receptive and imaginative aspects; but, whereas Whitehead emphasized the former, cognitive aspect in his discussion of «symbolic reference,» as a rebuttal to Hume and Kant, he emphasized the latter, creative aspect in his discussion of «propositions,» an emphasis needed to counter «the interest in logic, dominating over-intellectualized philosophers,» among whom «aesthetic delight» is eclipsed by «judgment» (cf. PR 184 - 86 and WH 33) In «symbolic reference» a dim, but indirect, mode of perception («causal efficacy») is combined with a clear, but indirect, mode of perception («presentational immediacy»), which produces a sense of the external world.

The «symbolic» nature of sense perception and experience prevents the ontological fullness of being from being captured by either language or philosophy.

This point is particularly important when we are placing our own religion's sense of life's meaning, allegedly given to us by a special historical revelation, into an encounter with other traditions» sense of life's meaning, given to them by their own symbolic traditions.

The second concept has to be presented as a theory, though a plausible one: that Jesus was considered by followers as androgynous in a significant symbolic sense.

Viewers in the space, by experiencing a sense of physical and mental constriction, are encouraged to reflect on the authoritative and symbolic meaning of signs, barriers, and borders.