Sentences with phrase «tacit assumption of»

Since the Enlightenment, it has become a tacit assumption of our culture that the only kind of knowledge worth bothering with is that which can be proven by experiment and described with mathematical laws.

Whereas the exclusive dimension of the christological confession is an obstruction to Matthew's tacit assumption of the universality of God's love - standard, the lures toward that standard and toward God himself form the foundation of the entire witness of the gospel.

Thus when we discover, parallel to the exclusivistic elements in the text, the tacit assumption of a broader principle by which these elements are in fact interpreted, it seems to me that we have the right to speak of a subtle lure toward the recognition of a metaphysical framework within which the call to faith is set.

Not exact matches

Leach's argument can only be sustained, however, if at least one of the following two tacit — and highly tenuous — assumptions turns out to be true.

Hence, for me to refuse to go to Germany under these circumstances would be tacit assent to the assumption that the Holocaust was an eruption of such primordial, unintelligible evil that the human beings who perpetrated it were as powerless as its victims.

The trend of modern thought, with its concentration upon making the most of this present life and the tacit assumption that death means extinction, makes it particularly easy for people to disbelieve in, or to ridicule, life after death.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

But it has hopefully strengthened his point and added this dimension to it: there can be little doubt that this «confrontation» between the Christian confession and humanistic acts of a general nature is, if not a programmatic Matthean theme, nevertheless based upon a tacit assumption which is quite integral to Matthew's total theological program.

The tacit assumption was that the physical or metaphysical places in question could be identified with sets of mathematical points, or with knife - edged states, or with quasimathematical monads.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

And thirdly, there is a tacit assumption that the British empire embodies, under providential guidance, the manifest process of such an historical evolution.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

In the concluding sections of this paper, I want to raise questions about these tacit assumptions.

Still, after her years at Columbia and Harvard, she recalls many of her colleagues making a tacit assumption, one that caused her to feel unwanted pressure.

Affirmations that life is widespread are founded on a tacit assumption that biology is not the upshot of random chemical reactions but the product of some kind of directional self - organization that favors the living state over others — a sort of life principle at work in nature.

John Dewey's philosophy of «Art as Experience» is contrasted with tacit aesthetic assumptions about music that music teachers often hold as a result of the aesthetic meme inherited from their...

In discussions on cyber security, there is a tacit assumption that the manufacturer of equipment will collaborate with the user of the equipment to stop third - party wrongdoers.

I take it as tacit assumption that you rebalance of course.

What assumptions are tacit in the statement that «saving and properly investing 15 % of one's income over a lifetime is a pathway to a successful retirement?»

Our tacit assumption that we might be able to hop inside the scene and see the other side of the tree is undermined by the demonstration that there's simply no more information there.

An initial point of discussion might be the tacit assumption that population size should be maximized.

Rather than work trough all of these, I will simply ask the reader to consider whether it is healthy that you are being asked to accept the speakers» tacit definitions on these matters, as well as their unstated assumptions.

The breadth and complexity of climate science is such that although highly reputable scientists have a thorough understanding of their particular field, there is a tacit assumption that their peers in other fields are equally reputable and each will tend to write in the context of man - made global warming being fact.

Technically it's literally true, but between the unstated qualifications, and the tacit assumptions too many of the audience will include, it ends up pretty much a «bait - and - switch».

If you actually read the literature on such external «causes», you'll find a bunch of guesswork founded on a tacit assumption that there must have been an external cause.

Without that assumption (and hence tacit endorsement), the paper is as of much scientific interest as 19th century papers about how long it takes for ants to wander outside circles of specific diameter.

On a personal note, it's encouraging for me to see a law school finally paying attention to social psychology (and I can only hope that Yale and other schools will start thinking about individual psychology as well): it has always struck me as completely bizarre that although there is a tacit assumption that law has something to do with human conduct and is not just an exercise in art — if, as Shelley says, poets can be legislators, then lawyers can be poets — there is not one moment spent in a student's legal education in exploring the nature of the human actor.