Sentences with phrase «theories about the nature»

It presupposes a particular theory about the nature of history, and the evidence of the documents is interpreted in subordination to that theory.

Every religion stands within the uniqueness of religious intuition (whereby intuitions also can contradict or have a only volatile character, without losing thereby the character of intuitions: cf. FR 38, PR 13, MT 50) and general theory about the nature of thing» (1LM49).

These practices were accompanied by theories about the nature of the human beings and the universe quite different from either biblical or secular ones in the West.

Although he initially rejects physicalism because he thinks that a human person is not just an organism and mental changes are not simply physical changes, he concludes «physicalism is the most reasonable theory about the nature of human beings».

RS: What I have got out of it, put very simply, is that Whitehead's criticism of the existing scientific view is not that it is pragmatic, or empirical, or based on sense - data, but that it is based on a kind of theory about the nature of the world, and that this has imparted a view of time and space and how the mind works.

One needn't buy into his theories about the nature of existence beyond what can be said for certain.

With new research — such as Cutrer's theory about the nature of aura — more possibilities for tailoring effective drugs have emerged.

There are two theories about the nature of this dark matter.

«They had theories about the nature of metals that made them believe they could manipulate their structure.

An astronomer's work can be pure science — gathering and analyzing data from instruments and creating theories about the nature of cosmic objects — or the work can be applied to practical problems in space flight and navigation, or satellite communications.

Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Ontological Argument, Weaknesses of the Ontological Argument, Theories about the Nature of Faith, the Relation between Faith, Reason, and Revelation as well as Propositional and Non-Propositional Concepts of Revelation.

Different theories about the nature of evidence might thus naturally emerge from different emphases on the competing demands that have been placed on the concept.

During the 1970s, Lancaster, California served as home to the Flat Earth Society, an institution that supported many scientifically ridiculous theories about nature.

In a similar vein, Chang and Davis (2009) assert that teachers hold implicit theories about the nature of classroom relationships.

[1][3] There was initially a strong influence from psychoanalysis (most of the early founders of the field had psychoanalytic backgrounds) and social psychiatry, and later from learning theory and behavior therapy - and significantly, these clinicians began to articulate various theories about the nature and functioning of the family as an entity that was more than a mere aggregation of individuals.

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But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

Long before his birth, authors such as Thomas Aquinas and Augustine had speculated about the nature of perception and knowledge, entertaining and then rejecting views similar to his theory of impressions.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

The first thing to notice about relativity and quantum theory is that one is dealing with theories, not with laws of nature that have been demonstrated beyond doubt.

Hence «God's primordial nature» is but an imprecise way of speaking about the order of nature — a formal structure expressing the theory of extension in its most general form (PW 58/56).

This essay attempts to make a contribution to that ongoing dialogue by corroborating some of the central features of Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal theory of psychiatry in light of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical insights about the nature of reality.

A major difference, however, between Bergson's theory and James's notion of the stream of thought as outlined in his Psychology is a matter of stress: whereas James, in the Psychology, was hesitant in extending his conclusions beyond the flow of our experience itself, 1 Bergson was always concerned primarily with what is revealed in our experience about the nature of reality, and in particular the nature of time.

By virtue of his own research Sullivan arrived at the same fundamental vision about the nature of reality that Whitehead professed and molded it quite independently into a viable personality theory, suitable for use in psychotherapy.

Theories about God's primordial and consequent natures, and about the structure of Jesus» experience, including God's role therein, are not different in kind in this respect.

Correspondence, in the sense specified, is the nature of truth, the meaning of truth; yet the test of truth that we most frequently employ in connection with the past is the test of coherence: historians and archeologists have nothing available to them that is not given in the present — this book, the reliability of which must be evaluated; this artifact, the significance of which must be construed — and coherence is the final test of their theories about the past built up from the givens of the present.

The vivid awareness of relationships, arising from field theory, has alerted the modern scientist to the complexity of the phenomena in nature to a degree that has made him cautious about employing his findings for any generalized law beyond the status of a working proposition.

In short his theory was a bad guess about the nature of things.

But as I have continued to read about the period, I have become convinced that it's deepest impact was not on our theory of truth and its relationship to rationality, but rather on our concept of our relationship to nature.

During the last twenty years, changes in family life and in church demographics have rekindled interest in Christian nurture and in new progressive theories about human nature.

Twists are better recognized when they occur in concrete situations than when they are defined or described in generalized theories about change, because, by their nature, twists contort the accepted definitions of things.

At the time when Whitehead was writing The Concept of Nature, and also when he was thinking about the theory of Relativity, it was still possible to adhere to a Special Relativist view of the Universe.

By speaking of «theory - laden» practices, Browning also calls attention to value orientations and beliefs about the nature of things that already reside in practice.

One of the most remarkable features of much of so - called «neo-orthodox» theological thought is its explicit or implicit attitude that the fact (or the theory) of evolution is not relevant to religious reflection about the nature of God or the meaning of Christian faith.

Lindbeck's «rule - theory,» too, helped me to think about the very nature of the ecumenical councils, like the one Lindbeck attended, as akin to «following a rule,» and unfolding the treasure of the riches that the Church has received from Christ and his apostles.

It also jibes with new thinking about the nature of autism called the «intense world» theory.

That task can be specified more exactly: it is to capacitate students» minds quite specifically for apologetics, for making well - warranted cases for theories about what can and can not be known about God, what should and should not be done in fidelity to God's nature and action.

The difficulty that stems from just assembling therapeutic components from different sources is that this approach usually produces a kind of hash eclecticism — a theory from here, a technique from there — with no integrating structure, no internally consistent core of assumptions about the nature, process, and goals of therapeutic change.

Naturalists don't agree with each other about the ultimate nature of reality (though all of them would call their pet theory «natural»), they don't agree about the foundation and content of morality (provided they don't deny its existence altogether) and I could go on and on to list the countless varieties of naturalism out there.

But she has a theory about it — that love has a dual nature and when we love we're like actors; we, the actor, are our biology and the role we play is the social construct.

I use the work of other sciences, evolutionary (developmental systems theory) and anthropological sciences, for baselines about human nature and behavior.

«Because of the dearth of experimentation, theories about the fundamental nature of affection have evolved at the level of observation, intuition, and discerning guesswork, whether these have been proposed by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, physicians, or psychoanalysts,» he noted.

For the limited scope of this study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human nature.

Truly, knowing who Jammeh is and reading many political science theories about the manipulative nature of dictators that ranges from Pol Pot of Cambodian (politician and revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge) and Nuon Chea (chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge), Idi Amine of Uganda and Mobutu of Democratic Republic of Congo, I am disturbed by the same mechanism being explored by Jammeh.

Psychoanalysis has insightful, provocative theories about emotions, unconscious thoughts and the nature of the mind.

Your new take on evolutionary theory seems to echo an older view of human nature: more about competition, less about compassion.

Despite his early advocacy of the quantum nature of reality, by the 1920s Einstein had begun voicing serious doubts about the theory.

Theories abound about the nature of this elusive energy, and Perlmutter is hotly pursuing observational evidence to help find the answer.

I call creationism «pseudoscience» not because its proponents are doing bad science — they are not doing science at all — but because they threaten science education in America, they breach the wall separating church and state, and they confuse the public about the nature of evolutionary theory and how science is conducted.

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

Ernst Fehr is completely right that economic theory should incorporate a bit of realism about human nature (1 May, p...