Sentences with phrase «understanding the intentions of»

From the start, Ricoeur rejects the assumption that to understand a text is to understand the intention of the author, or, alternatively, to grasp the text's meaning as it was grasped by the first hearers or readers who shared the author's cultural situation.

The instructor understands the intention of the pose, and recreates that same intention and muscle use while participants are sitting or standing next to a chair while doing their yoga.

According to experts, finding fake profiles are a lot easier than understanding the intentions of a stranger you've met online.

Whereas a person can effectively communicate with another person despite mispronunciations, colloquialisms, and other quirks of speech, a machine generally requires structured input in order to understand the intention of the command.

Not exact matches

Though we can understand Goop's intention of giving advice on how to diet healthily, equating thinness with health is not the way to go.

Listen to the needs and wants of your customers, family members and friends with the intention of understanding them more fully.

It's also easy to prejudge the situations, intentions, and attitudes of the women who work at a place like Hooters, and to cry out «exploitation» without truly understanding, say, the point of view of an actual Hooters Girl.

Your plan may look beautiful, but without a solid understanding of your own intentions in business, it's likely to lack coherence and, ultimately, prove ineffective.

Entrepreneurs understand the value and necessity of setting goals, but I wonder how many set intentions?

What Beijing seems not to understand is that current pessimism about the Chinese economy has less to do with the recent spate of bad news than with the lack of reliable data on the Chinese economy and the opacity of Beijing's process of economic policymaking and its intentions.

I believe the most successful people in business and life are the people who really pay attention to these details, who truly try to understand the motives and intentions of the person with whom they're interacting and try to find common ground (or decide this isn't a person they can work with).

What is important for attaining the Federal Reserve's mandated objectives is not that monetary policy is described in terms of a formal prescriptive rule, but rather that the FOMC's intentions and strategy are well understood by the public.

They don't just meet people for business - card collection's sake; they understand the power of relationship - building, problem - solve by connecting the dots at high levels, and purposefully cause different worlds and communities to interact with the intention of creating mutual value.

In a letter to irate classmates, Zuckerberg gives his first apology to make the news: «I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter... I definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light.»

Obtaining an up - to - date and better understanding of the investment intentions of the business community is critical for our outlooks for economic activity and inflation, which inform our monetary policy decisions.

Our intention in running a smooth business with as less hitches as possible is to ensure that we hire the right number of employees who not only have an understanding of the industry and are professionals but also are attuned to our corporate goals and vision and are committed to ensuring that these goals and visions are achieved.

«CognitiveScale's industry optimized AI solutions help financial services companies understand the stated and unstated intentions of their customers, as well as improve their own business process intelligence, reduce costs and risk,» said Janet Lewis, Vice President, Microsoft Financial Services at Microsoft Corp. «Infusing applications with this type of insight and intelligence at any point in time results in a democratization of AI to the benefit of every person and organization.»

Scripture is debated largely because of the cultural bridge we must cross in order to understand the intention behind the stories told, the poetry used, and the rules described.

fail to understand the rich vocabulary of symbolism provided by etiquette, which enables people to recognize essential attributes or intentions of others, such as that a man wearing a tie is treating the occasion seriously.

Any other practice breaks the unity of the church, and the lack of water baptism is actually a tradition of omission, thus not showing a greater understanding of faith, but rather a lack of reverence for the will and intention of Jesus himself.

This is not a statement of desire or intention by Jesus, but is a statement of realistic understanding about what might occur as people follow Him.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

Seeing the lives and examples of the Christian saints; along with understanding the dignity of the human person and the intentions underlying its practices, Christian asceticism provides a clearer and more holistic view of the human person.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

His action, the intention latent in it, the understanding of existence it implies, and thus his selfhood, can be encountered historically.

His primary intention remains to critique an understanding of human nature.

«26 My intention was to encourage respondents to ponder various crises so that I might understand their interpretation of them.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

But when we look around and realized that our hearts have led us astray, we can know that God searches our hearts, observes the intentions of our mind, understands what we were trying to do, and leads us in His ways.

About Brunner's effort Karl Barth wrote, «I do not fully understand the intention and spirit of [his work]....

When we do, nobody can fully understand the thoughts and intentions of their own hearts — let alone the heart of others!

The premise here is that if Paul was not writing a theological tract for the ages — and everyone agrees he had no intention of doing that — then Romans must be understood within the circumstances of Paul's ministry, as generated, as were his other occasional letters, by a situation in his own ministry or in a church that called out for his apostolic attention.

But behind Lincoln's understanding of history was his idea of a God «who at times seems to want to frustrate the Statesman» (John Diggins, The Lost Soul of American Politics [Basic, 1984]-RRB- Lincoln «doubted that man could ever grasp God's will and therefore believed that human action would always be estranged from divine intention» (p. 330) Lincoln divined that God is both hidden and revealed.

I understand your intention, but this style of teaching or message, especially in written form, is a real turn off, ugly in my opinion.

The is more proof of God then science, we are just to smug to enjoy the daily miracles of creation to understand His good intention.

In spite of failing to fulfil its primary intention, it provides certain fundamental insights into the nature of his understandings of reality and into what may well be the conditions of metaphysical thought.

Analogously, even though the world might be understood as the body of God, God might nevertheless have thoughts, feelings, and intentions that are distinguishable from those of worldly creatures.

First, each of them has perfect self - knowledge and unlimited understanding of the other two persons; there are, accordingly, no points of disagreement between them as a result of ignorance or simple misunderstanding of one another's intentions.

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

I shall not endorse Royce's own conception of the Trinity in this book, since it is more Sabellian or modalistic than genuinely Trinitarian.3 Rather, my intention is first to summarize Royce's understanding of human community, then to make clear how it corresponds to a democratically organized structured society within a Whiteheadian perspective, and finally to apply this understanding of community to the Trinity in order to clarify the notion of God as a community of divine persons.

As Aquinas summed it up in the Summa Theologica, for a resort to the sword to be justified it must be on the authority of a sovereign, for a just cause rightly defined, and for a right intention, which included both avoidance of evil intentions and the positive aim of securing peace — peace understood, after Augustine, as tranquillitas ordinis, the tranquillity of a just political order.

It would not only be irrelevant, it would be contradictory to the intention, the understanding, the spirit of the man.

In other words, concepts like Communion of Saints, Familia Dei, etc. want to be understood with their full intention.

One must recognize, however, that in moving beyond the intention of the Song, in moving from creation theology to covenantal theology, in speaking of God's love for his people, one is assuming a prior and definitive understanding of God.

For we have, for example, in the parables, in the beatitudes and woes, and in the sayings on the kingdom, exorcism, John the Baptist and the law, sufficient insight into Jesus» intention to encounter his historical action, and enough insight into the understanding of existence presupposed in his intention to encounter his selfhood.

To understand this attitude we must go back to the last of his «Talks on Judaism» in which he contrasts the false desire for security of the dogmatists of the law with the «holy insecurity» of the truly religious man who does not divorce his action from his intention.

For the kervgmatic interest of the primitive Church would leave unaltered precisely those sayings and scenes in which Jesus made his intention and understanding of existence most apparent to them.

In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation of human existence with God's intention for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.

If this be the intention of the Church, let us quickly say that it is also the problem, for the church's self - understanding and its practice are often in conflict.

This involves selection and distortion which, because it often is made unconsciously, automatically, without intention on the part of the selectors, and also because usually many individuals are involved in the selection process (writer, cameraman, director, editor, producer, distributors, sponsor, audience), it often is impossible to detect, much less to analyze or to understand.