Sentences with phrase «understood by analogy»
Why such a consideration would be important in determining a test's usefulness may be best understood by analogy.
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Even though the scripture uses some aspects of ancient mil life to help us understand spiritual truths, the mil life and church life are not a perfect analogy or paradigm by which to judge the other.
I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).
My own approach to a radical Catholic understanding of analogy or analogia entis was by way of giving it a dialectical meaning, and a meaning that hopefully would be dialectical and historical at once.
Though he presses the analogy of the religious body with the physical organism and though his concept of the «divine society» is open to criticism, de la Grasserie does offer helpful categories for the understanding of «external religious society,» and particularly of the «societies to the second power,» as created by prophets and saints.
Nominalists share with Scotus the voluntarist understanding of divine and human will, the unboundedness of possibility, the view of creation as an order imposed by God's arbitrary will, and the rejection of the doctrine of analogy.
In his view faith understands itself as the pure gift of God, a God who is imaged as acting from above and may be thought of by analogy with human persons.
Moreover, understanding that the metaphors taken from personal relations are to be supplemented and in part corrected by those from the mind - body relationship, I think the entire procedure approximates analogy in my sense.
By extension and analogy, the flawed understanding of conscience found in Opinion 385 commits the ACOG to repugnant positions.
Well, it seems to have been «not so muc... a supernatural external miracle but... the dawning internal realization that this life of Jesus reflected a new image of God, an image that defied the conventional wisdom, an image that called into question the exalted king as the primary analogy by which God could be understood.»
Here we can best understand Whitehead's point by analogy with works of the imagination, since this fourth way calls upon the resources of conceptual possibility to heal the wounds inflicted by actuality.
Accordingly, the fact that «our dominant inheritance from our immediately past occasion is broken into by innumerable inheritances through other avenues» provides an analogy for understanding both the endurance of a molecule and the fact that it is subject to countless other influences (AI 243).
Anything positive that we may say about God is not to be understood univocally; we can use only the language of analogy, and it is within a bracket, as it were, which is governed by a negative sign that all theology is enclosed.
I've tried to give the most basic understanding by using the «insurance company» analogy and yet they still don't get it.
Yet it remains a misleading phrase to those who, lacking a technically precise knowledge of Whitehead's vocabulary, understand the term «mental pole» by analogy to the ordinary meaning of «mental.»
Hence by analogy faith, or the Christian understanding of self, owes its distinctiveness to its inseparable relation to the act of God in Christ which encounters me in the word... for we know that the act of God is what it claims to be only when we realize that it happened pro me.»
This is when a truth known by revelation is compared with one that can be known by reason; the analogy allows for a clearer understanding of the fittingness of the revealed truth.
The helpful analogy between extreme Islamism and far - right extremism, made by Quilliam in its publication «In defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda», is useful for understanding the problems that Islamist extremists can pose and in drawing up government policies in response.»
It brings together the author's work on the southern coast of Peru and, by mixing the results of excavation with ethnographic analogy, presents a model of Nasca culture that adds significantly to our understanding of the complex societies in the Andes.
Debby Martin: «Josh has extensive knowlege of biochemistry and physiology as well as a deep understanding of the course content — which he helps students learn by using teaching strategies such as: diagrams, analogies, Q&A, and review.
We're involved in producing & sharing quality Science videos, where we emphasise on understanding the basics by providing day - to - day analogies.
It's a fair analogy to portraiture — if you've ever tried your hand at it and understand that analogies are by definition imperfect.
To understand this dynamic by way of further analogy, maybe have a look at the topic of Mobbing in the Workplace.
Far better is to understand the lesson of the analogy — which is that climate moves along steadily and predictably while weather bounces and stretches randomly around the central tendency described by climate and season.
However, I don't understand that the proposition is being put by way of analogy.
If people don't understand what is meant by saturation of the CO2 absorption band let me recall Warren Meyer's superb analogy.
The easiest way to understand this is by analogy (which I probably used earlier in the thread).
On the so - called «exonerations» by official bodies Steve makes an easily understood topical analogy:
This paper by Salzman et al. 2008 is a little technical in places, and a little out of date (now), but provides a nice insight into why we should care about Pliocene climate, and also discusses our understanding of matches and mismatches between the world of the mid-Pliocene and today, and so why it is a useful analogy for our future.
But does that really understand the process by which it is generated and is there a better analogy in the IRS codes?
To explain the meaning of suicides in communities, Professor Dudgeon draws on an analogy used by Professor Michael Chandler, who has worked with First Nation Peoples in Canada to understand youth suicide and self harm — that «suicide is like the miner's canary».
In an easy - to - understand format full of anecdotes, imaginary dialogues, and analogies to game theory, Gottman explains lack of trust in a relationship as a deficit of attunement, positing that once the body becomes «flooded» by physiological stress reactions, attempts to repair communication fail.