Sentences with word «twoness»

This idea of twoness above is not as vague as it sounds, for we can agree on a certain arbitrary model set containing what we call two things, our cow and rock if we wish, got by counting or other means, and declare that any other set has two things if it can be put in one - to - one correspondence (in modern terminology, bijective correspondence) with our model set.
Matrimony reminds us of the earthiness of human clay, breathed upon by God's love, and of the completed, united twoness of our essential nature.
Jesus extrapolated a limitation of two persons in a sexual union (serially or concurrently) from the foundational twoness of the sexes established at creation (Mark 10:6 - 9).
We say that the set of cow and rock has the numerical property of twoness.
Even though the definition of twoness within the System is radically abstract, it arises out of a common understanding of twoness in our experience.
What we have done here is (a) accept that mathematics arises from experience, (b) recognize that we can get a general idea of twoness from our experience, (c) accept constraints on our experience — what we can assert as existing and what we can construct — by accepting some formal system, in this case a system defining set theory, and (d) acknowledge that we can define precisely within that system what we mean by number, successor of a number and in the process twoness.
They always feel this sense of twoness or double consciousness, being Black and American, having two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled dimensions, «two warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder» (SBF 17).
Grant resolved the dilemma first by enlarging on the insights of W. E. B. DuBois and his reference to the double consciousness of black men, who understood themselves through their «twoness» — being black and American.
BOSTON — A theme that came up repeatedly during a symposium on improving the representation of women and minorities in the science pipeline was what sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois called «twoness»: the idea that whites and minorities perceive and experience two different worlds, two different sets of expectations and circumstances.
One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.»
The chastening but hopefully enlivening effect of imagining the world without fantasy bolt - holes... The understanding that our «twoness» is inherently contemporary, even futuristic, said Martine in one of her lectures.
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