Sentences with phrase «ultimate explanation»

That «something like a Person» is the ground and ultimate explanation of the transformation may seem natural and plausible.

The Christian doctrine of the triunitarian nature of God, to which we shall come in the latter part of this chapter, is a symbolic account that gives a better ultimate explanation of what the whole story is about than does some account true (so far as it goes) which is given in scientific (or similar) terms alone.

Justin Kownacki explains why «The Avengers» is actually the ultimate explanation of geek culture, and a 29 - year - old game developer lists his seven favorite TV shows for geeks and nerds.

But an even more crucial premise is Swinburne's version of the principle of sufficient reason: «The human quest for explanation inevitably and rightly seeks for the ultimate explanation of everything observable.»

One could just as well say that any ultimate explanation of the material world must be in nonmaterial terms.

The philosopher Georges Rey has written, for example, that «any ultimate explanation of mental phenomena will have to be in non-mental [i.e., sub-mental or material] terms or else it won't be an explanation of it.»

He shows first how the material universe is manifestly «contingent» (i.e. does not exist of necessity) and therefore how it requires an ultimate explanation which can not itself be a part of that material reality.

A key consequence of thus mistaking a partial abstraction for an ultimate explanation is that various dualisms are thereby created: subject - object, primary - secondary qualities, extended substance - mental substance, etc..

To me, that is the ultimate explanation of making evil «other», when in fact facing our own ability to be evil, and at the same time to see the humanity in others, are needed to understand evil.

Rorty wants philosophers to abandon this fruitless quest for ultimate explanations and final truths, and to start afresh by recognizing the irony of the human situation and the contingency of our starting - points.

IDT disciples (Group 3) reject the materialist claim that natural selection could conceivably be the ultimate explanation of adaptive complexity.

Seen in this light, the ultimate explanation of the universe is a combination of necessity and value:

In the first two chapters Ward asks how and why the universe began - whether it has any ultimate explanation and whether it has a goal or purpose.

But they are scientific only in mood, because in their haste to supply the ultimate explanation they have flouted the rules basic to scientific method: tedious experimentation and cautious hypothesizing.

In speaking of the ultimate explanation they began to talk of «Logos», an account or explanation.

Educators would teach science without intrusions from creationists, and students would learn that evolution rather than divine creativity is the ultimate explanation of why we are the kind of organisms we are.

Second, that he controls nature; God is the ultimate explanation for the fruit and vegetables that we eat.

For him Whitehead implicitly works with two different kinds of explanation: the «causal» or «ordinary» kind of explanation appealing only, in agreement with the ontological principle, to actual entities, and an «ultimate explanation,» which appeals to the principle of creativity and not to specific actual entities (221).18

It is both descriptive and explanatory: it elucidates how and in what sense the ultimate description can also be the ultimate explanation.

Because of that aspect of creativity, there can be no ultimate explanation for the specific characters of things, except their own nature, i.e. their creativity: what they are does not follow from the essence of ultimate Being (as in Spinoza), nor from the ultimate decision of a God.

The ultimate explanation of reality is Trinitarian, which tells us that, metaphysically speaking, personhood is primal.

The book of Genesis does not give an ultimate explanation of the origin of evil, for evil is at its heart not explicable or intelligible, just as darkness is by its nature not visible.

Labour were ahead in voting intention throughout most of the last Parliament, but were behind on economic competence and leadership, which are normally seen as important drivers of voting intention (the ultimate explanation of this apparent paradox was, of course, that the voting intention polls were wrong).

The ultimate explanation is female sexual selection for care - giving males.

Even an evolutionary biologist like [the late Stephen Jay] Gould was prone to this slippage between proximate and ultimate explanations, and then to rejecting an ultimate explanation because of thinking a particular proximate explanation was sufficient.

Gould was slipping there between the proximate and ultimate explanations.

Similarly, most accounts of string theory give Edward Witten pride of place, but if the field does finally deliver on its ambition of an ultimate explanation of physical reality, that epiphany will most likely be the work of dozens of contributors.

Psi proponents say that an explanation for ESP (like the ultimate explanation for electromagnetism, incidentally) may come from quantum physics.

«I'm not claiming this is the ultimate explanation of the Cambrian explosion,» Dalziel said.

If you've successfully surmounted a stall in your fat loss, what was the ultimate explanation?

Again, it's not that I think every film needs to have some ultimate explanation.