Sentences with phrase «uncritical acceptance of»

They are based on an uncritical acceptance of the claims of domestic political lobbies and take little account of the considered reports submitted by the Government... [151]

The Court rejected the province's uncritical acceptance of a proponent - driven approach to the issue of whether environmental assessments are triggered.

If you have not bothered to read the large amount of literature which is critical of IPCC procedures, then you can not claim validity for your own argument based upon an uncritical acceptance of their findings.

I had assumed that you were one of us, by your uncritical acceptance of Keynesian economics.

The fit of the science claim to one's world views can also lead to uncritical acceptance of public statements that 4 degrees warming will make the Earth uninhabitable and other silly statements (hotter means colder winters, etc.).

About the other common AGW slogan according to which the current mainstream AGW climate science can not be challenged because it has been based on the so - called «scientific consensus,» I would strongly suggest the reading of this post by Kevin Rice at the blog Catholibertarian entitled «On the dangerous naivety of uncritical acceptance of the scientific consensus»

People who comment on science blogs like this should be beyond the stage of uncritical acceptance of dogma.

This is so even though their level of concern about uncritical acceptance of paranormal claims may be greater than that of many of their colleagues.

Having said that, I'm still not sure that the poorly conceived undergraduate level research Lewandowsky produces is worth all the fuss, but for the mainstream media's uncritical acceptance of his absurd conclusions.

The Act on Facts campaign, as the name implies, is to quash «myths» and counter «misinformation» by those who have concerns about the uncritical acceptance of wind energy.

The problems are highlighted by their blind, unthinking, uncritical acceptance of the Mann «hockeystick», simply because Mann was the lead author of the section of the IPCC report where the «hockeystick» was published.

While Sternberg's title might well include critical deconstructions of the supposed inseparability of concrete and digital realities, there is a tendency in the art world, recognised as the first bottom - up contemporary movement of the 21st century, that was founded on an unquestioning and uncritical acceptance of the digitisation of the world narrative.

At the moment when all disciplines are becoming more self - conscious, more aware of the nature of their presuppositions as exhibited in the very languages and structures of the various fields of scholarship, such uncritical acceptance of «what is» as «natural» may be intellectually fatal.

At a moment when all disciplines are becoming more self - conscious, more aware of the nature of their presuppositions as exhibited in the very languages and structures of the various fields of scholarship, such uncritical acceptance of «what is» as «natural» may be intellectually fatal.

I am not blind to how unattractive Ethel's uncritical acceptance of racism was, to the extent that I think she buried in denial how painful it was to be separated from her only friend, and then see that friend be raped by her father.

They should be led instead to an uncritical acceptance of ready - made truths.

Reconstructing Memories The uncritical acceptance of eyewitness accounts may stem from a popular misconception of how memory works.

Sir Menzies said Britain's position in Iraq was not based on British priorities but on an «apparently uncritical acceptance of a United States strategy that has self - evidently failed».

One reason for this neglect, as we have seen, may be found in Whitehead's uncritical acceptance of the dominant philosophical opinion that efficient causation must mean transeunt causation.

It is my deep conviction that one of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the foundational dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

One of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

Too often Full Gospel leaders insist on total, abject loyalty and uncritical acceptance of whatever they say.

Their uncritical acceptance of a functionalist and individualistic picture of «professional» ministry leaves both Kelly and Brown vulnerable on this point.

That was 2004, and I continue to see the same trend among proselytising Muslims today: constant criticism of Christianity in the face of rather uncritical acceptance of Islam.

I am not asking for an uncritical acceptance of any policies, methods or movements.

The evangelical subculture is not alone in uncritical acceptance of family - related sacred cows.

Yet we are witnesses to the amazing spectacle of the uncritical acceptance of this unscientific and romantic assumption by men who, in every other sphere of life, pride themselves upon their devotion to evidence presented by «the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.»

Note the uncritical acceptance of Jesus that continued in the nontheology of the «60s.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

Unfortunately, however, this theologian imported into his theology a fundamental flaw in existentialist philosophy, namely, its uncritical acceptance of a materialist - mechanistic conception of nature and the corresponding assumption that freedom can never be at home in the machine of the cosmos.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

While blatant hate and racism certainly motivated plenty of our country's past oppressors, blatant hate and racism aren't nearly as effective at sustaining oppressive systems as uncritical acceptance of the way things are.

In their profoundly shallow and reductive view of world history — such as their complete and uncritical acceptance of the asinine assertions of pseudohistorian D.M. Murdock, also known as Acharya S. — Zeitgeisters presume that everything they see as bad in the world, principally money and religion, was designed by a single person or group of people and then implemented whole and complete, the way automobiles go from the drawing board to the factory floor in Detroit.

Whereas in traditional societies this openness often amounted to somewhat uncritical acceptance of the dominant cultural patterns, today it can also mean incorporation of ranges of concern and action from the prophetic traditions of Israel.

Jesus» message is NOT an uncritical acceptance of behaviour, but a call to a cross-centered life.

Not exact matches

We did this — or at least many of us did this — with an astonishingly «uncritical» acceptance of the received verities concerning our own discipline.

My problem with the category of «story» is that it invites uncritical acceptance from many who see it as a new way of doing theology.

The attitudes of people of religion towards the media are extremely varied from uncritical acceptance to total rejection of media's presence in the life of society.

Again, as in the case of humility, trusting the research and the theories of others does not mean uncritical acceptance.

Humility on this account does not mean uncritical acceptance: it means, in practical terms, the presumption of wisdom and authority in the author.

Where these assumptions — about the nature of language, of reality, of history, or of nature — are widely accepted, and where they are congenial to the task of doctrinal formulation, their uncritical acceptance is harmless.

Uncritical public acceptance of wind industry spin began to change after the 2011 senate inquiry into the impacts of wind farms, chaired by Greens senator Rachel Siewert made the unequivocal recommendation that «the Commonwealth Government initiate as a matter of priority thorough, adequately resourced epidemiological and laboratory studies of possible effects of wind farms on human health.»

If they're not blinded by blizzards of algebra, students of advanced statistical inference are undermined by uncritical, unconditional, & unconscious wholesale acceptance of untenable assumptions.

People have every right to take issue with the inane and offensive things you have said on blogs, your innuendo, your unsubstantiated claims, and your uncritical and unskeptical acceptance of all sundry of accusations put forth by so - called «skeptics» against climate scientists.

His uncritical acceptance elsewhere of CO2 as the climate «control knob,» along with unrealistic «conveyor belt» shut - down and of internal jump - resonance explanations of the singular Younger Dryas period leaves much to be desired in terms of scientific rigor.