Sentences with phrase «ultimate nature of matter»

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Looked at that way, the essential content of revelation, or perhaps the very nature of God (whatever is the ultimate «subject matter» or «object» of the inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry as «theology.»

I prefer to speak of the «protopsychic nature or essence» of the so - called «matter,» the «ultimate last.»

When it comes to matters of human nature, emotions, relationships, and ultimate meaning they have remained the same throughout history.

But the important matter at the moment is that all this is but a phase of the perennial struggle of man's mind to understand the ultimate nature of the world in which he finds himself.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

As a matter of fact the important thing to Nanak and to his followers is not the correct comprehension of the nature of the ultimate but their attitude of obedience and devotion to God.

Such is the nature of much modern fundamental physics, reinforcing the need for those who reflect upon the ultimate patterns of matter - energy, most obviously in the branch of metaphysics called ontology, to engage with modern scientific thought.

This involves a complete rejection of the doctrine of the ultimate existents as «matter»; the doctrine maintains instead that they are fundamentally «psychical» in nature.

Why do mindless chunks of matter not qualify for being the ultimate «concrete» constituents of nature?

«The Data of Science,» begins with a sentence which certainly seems to support my suggestion that Whitehead strongly favors phenomenalism: «Our perceptual knowledge of nature consists in the breaking up of a whole which is the subject matter of perceptual experience, or is the given presentation which is experience — or however else we prefer to describe the ultimate experienced fact» (PNK 59).

The results, slow or sudden, or great or small, of the combined optimism and expectancy, the regenerative phenomena which ensue on the abandonment of effort, remain firm facts of human nature, no matter whether we adopt a theistic, a pantheistic - idealistic, or a medical - materialistic view of their ultimate causal explanation.

What could quarks and gluons possibly have in common with nature's ultimate trash compactors — ultradense concentrations of matter whose gravitational field is so powerful it curves space - time around itself, trapping anything that crosses its surface?

They cluster in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment to forge new, mind - bending ideas about the ultimate nature of our universe, from space and time to matter and information.