Sentences with phrase «system of thought which»

This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.

Augustine's problem — how to relate the claims of theology to a system of thought which had become his own after many years of training — is in many ways similar to our problem of how to reconcile theology and economics.

Of course there is much more to Christian orthodoxy than these four pillars, but they do support a system of thought which, within the cultural context of its time, was both impressive and convincing.

Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple - minded system of thought which we are considering.

The system of thought which he represents has enormous influence throughout the country, even among people who have never heard the name of Dewey.

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

They will expect and they will find a system of thought which still retains its power to aid and to challenge our more usual modes of thinking.

But it is important to distinguish between constructive systems of thought which involve assumptions that allow one to increase one's understanding of the world and his situation in it, versus assumptions which simply lead to more unanswerable questions.

But it is interesting to note that the systems of thought which are best adapted to it would seem to be precisely those which at first regarded it as a menace to them.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

There are systems of thought which the world usually calls religious, and yet which do not positively assume a God.

Of course there are entire systems of thought which should be discarded, flat earthism comes to mind.

Not exact matches

Some researchers also think it may be possible to compare the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other chemicals in a plume to «default» levels seen in asteroids, which were formed at the dawn of the solar system — and ask if life is manipulating the chemistry there, or at least did so in the past.

Based on our experience, we initially thought this was due to a combination of two factors: a normal, temporary performance impact when upgrading the operating system as iPhone installs new software and updates apps, and minor bugs in the initial release which have since been fixed.

Poloz's press conference followed the release of the central bank's December Financial System Review, which concluded that a record household debt burden makes Canada vulnerable to a housing crash, although policy makers see little reason to think that will happen.

I think about getting one of the businesses to «escape velocity» — setting up systems and recurring revenue and removing yourself as a bottleneck — after which I can focus on the second.

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of spoThinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of spothinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

Rock Bottom's turnover for its 6,000 hourly employees has dropped by 20 percent, which Williams thinks is largely because of the system.

Given all this, you'd think Canadians would rise in unison against such a threat to the system on which so much of their wealth depends.

Fortune's Aaron Pressman has argued that undermining the public comment system would give a tactical edge to industry opponents of net neutrality, and that seems to be the thinking of the Trump FCC itself, which has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the fake comments by the New York Attorney General.

There is a core misunderstanding about how that system works, which is that — let's say if you are a shop and you are selling muffins, right, you might want to target people in a specific town who might be interested in baking or some demographic, but we don't send that information to you, we just show the message to the right people and that's a really important, I think, common misunderstanding of how the system works.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

The challenge for companies is technical: Compliance requires a system that enables active consent, maximal transparency, and enhanced security, all of which require thinking about how to use «distributed ledgers» and blockchain - based technologies to validate transactions.

Think Google (Alphabet), Intuit, Netflix, eBay, Tesla Motors, Cisco Systems and others — many of which we've owned at one point or another in our two domestic equity funds, the All American Equity Fund (GBTFX) and Holmes Macro Trends Fund (MEGAX).

This is a 100 % Do - It - Yourself system that will help you think about different aspects of your invention you might not otherwise have thought of, but which are essential when drafting a Provisional Patent Application.

«We are excited to work with an organization like the MAS which shares our thinking around the impact of open - source, layered architectures and permissionless system

Businesses that don't understand the nature of ranking sometimes think that they can game the system and end up making bad decisions like dabbling in black hat SEO, which involves implementing tactics that are frowned upon by the search engines.

The NITI Aayog, which is India's planning think - tank is working on developing a proof of concept based blockchain system which will keep a record of drugs which are in circulation as well as those which have been consumed.

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I think what shook markets across the globe was not the size of Greece's economy or financial system, but more the prospect of a Greek exit from the eurozone, which would have put a big question mark over the irreversibility of the entire euro system.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

But there is no industry I can think of — no sport, no science, no game, no writing, no legal system, no athletic ability, no engineering, no drug discovery, no awards for scientific achievement, no Fortune 50 companies (companies that actually make something in addition to money), no adventurism, no culinary art, no nothing in which a woman sits above all men in her field.

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

Following my lead, Pike's diagrams naturally lead one to think of God as a power plant, upon which many autonomous systems draw their current.

What do you think belongs within the binary system of which you propose?

Second, there is a set of time - systems derived from the whole set of space - time abstractions and this set of derivatives of an abstraction «expresses the totality of those properties of the creative advance which are capable of being rendered explicit in thought» (PNK 81).

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

Riccardo Petrella: «I think that this meeting is important since little by little we are seeing, each in his own context and in his daily action, that we can create stories which are different from those of the dominant system.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

The link made in Edward Holloway's synthesis of science and theology, involving the co-relativity of all material being in a metaphysical system that is faithful both to modern scientific thought and to orthodox Christian theology, gives a more solid basis on which to develop a dialogue with science.

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

But before many years he moved away from a position which he believed led to humanism, though he never ceased to apply the empirical test to any system of thought.

Desperately little is to be found in the literature of systems thought which addresses the idea of God.

The frequent presence of a «value vacuum» (Frankl) in the personality and relationship problems brought to counselors emphasizes Erich Fromm's conviction that every human being needs a «system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»

3, centers directly upon the «structure of faith as trust in God» (6:91) and, in effect, «pierces [Paul's] own system of thought» (6:102) by allowing Abraham's faith actually to define the content of Christian faith; (3) Mt. 25:31 - 46, the description of the last judgment, in which humanistic actions of a general nature actually «interpret what the Christian confession really means (6:73).

The primary answer is that modernist thinking assumes the validity of Darwinian evolution, which explains the origin of humans and other living systems by an entirely mechanistic process that excludes in principle any role for a Creator.

Praxis - thinking challenge this assumption of western Christianity, which is the hidden assumption of much of our education system.

The logical and dialectical God of the theologians — the God who can be put into a system, enclosed in an idea, or thought about philosophically as «a state of being in which all ideas are absorbed» — is not the God who can be met in the lived concrete.