Sentences with phrase «using vagueness»

Sean, If I have misinterpreted what you are saying, perhaps you could try to say it clearly rather than using vagueness as a sheild against criticism.

Even now, he risks using vagueness as a shortcut to eternity.

Thus, using the vagueness of the past self as a test case, we can also see that there is a difference of «distinctness» in the way the datum self is given as opposed to other selves.43 Yet, literal participation of the one in the other is maintained, for Hartshorne, since the present self must at least literally participate in its own past self — otherwise, personal identity is problematic, and this threatens personalism with precisely the sort of solipsism Hartshorne indicated from the beginning.

Not exact matches

In our day there is a good deal of vagueness in the way we use «spirit» and «spiritual,» and we often call God spirit when we can think of nothing else to say.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

However, while this gives us a vague common denominator which we can all use, by virtue of this same vagueness it isn't much help in saying who Jesus is.

For all the differences between Christianity and humanism in the widest sense of the word, (I use the word «Christianity» because it is traditional, though I am aware of its vagueness and false associations.)

As it is now apparent, the grounds for much of this opposition and subsequent criticism of TEKS — its vagueness, subjectivity, lack of specificity of objective knowledge, overlap from grade to grade, and lack of sufficient rigor — seem to have been borne out by our experience in student achievement in the ensuing ten years of its use.

She used the first to earn a living and the second to recall her life - if not in precise detail, at least with an astrologer's poetic vagueness.

«Although we never hosted this tool (contrary to their claim), nor believe that this tool is used to remove technological measures (contrary to their claim), we decided, due to the vagueness of the DMCA law and our intention to remain in good relation with Amazon, to voluntarily follow their request and remove links and detailed instructions related to it,» wrote Alexander Turcic, a forum moderator, on MobileRead.

But the forms leave plenty of room for vagueness, and since the responsibility is on the Realtor «to be sure the seller is telling the truth» — I find myself confused as to its use.

That's a run - on sentence that simply means that crooks (yes, some sellers are crooks, as well as others who by nature aren't crooks, but who may via the vagueness of the SPIS be swayed temporaily to step out of line) will be tempted to use any means possible to fulfill the desire to gain financially, all the while discounting the effect of the negative costs to be borne by those buyers who are helping «them» to get on with «their» lives.