Sentences with phrase «vagueness as»

North American courts have gone even further than Lord Carnwath, seeing resolution of statutory ambiguity or vagueness as a matter of policy, not as a matter of interpretation (Lewans, 2016).

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.

Not exact matches

When it has been and the actuality is satisfied with the result, the specification, with whatever clarity or vagueness, quality and pattern, desirability or repulsiveness it has, is determined and must remain changeless forever as it is in future wholes.

New definitions, such as those attempted here, serve to distinguish certain meanings of a term in preference to others in the hope that these will be more consistent and more serviceable in creating a community of understanding than the term in its full ambiguity and vagueness was able to do.

European radicals rejected Schweitzer's cultural philosophy for its vagueness, and his personal example as a cop - out; he fled when the heat was on.

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.

The confusion in modern Christendom about the meaning of the ministry makes itself evident in uncertainty about pastoral authority as well as in the vagueness present in thought about pastoral functions.

This is not to be taken as meaning that there was either any vagueness about the true nature of moral action or any relaxation of the moral imperative.

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

This vagueness in the perceptions of our own bodies is the reason, according to Hartshorne, that the mind - body relationship is often mistaken as a relationship between two fundamentally different substances.

It is true that the variations in the formulae and the vagueness of the terminology is a warning that when we have stigmatized them as mythological we have not pronounced the last word on the subject: all the more need then for an interpretation in non-mythological terms.

Franciscan Whereas Keep Watch takes refuge in an overabundance of images and metaphors to make up for unsubstantial content mired in unescapable vagueness, Sr Patricia takes refuge in the idea of charism over consecration as the main aspect of religious life: «While every Christian is called to make visible the characteristic features of Jesus, Religious, through a vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience, do this in a specific way through the charism of their Institutes» (p. 28).

Alfred North Whitehead has identified the underlying assumptions as (1) the assumption of simple location; (2) the assumption of the primacy of primary qualities; and (3) the assumption that clarity and distinctness are more fundamental than vagueness.

As I argue in Myths of Reason, rationalistic thought is obliged always to «begin in the rough» with the assumption that certain «large» general ideas are just what is needed; 1 ideas whose extreme vagueness reveals that the range of rational concepts is very broad indeed, so broad in fact that the vexed question of just where and how to begin doing natural philosophy becomes a primary and major worry.

As a result, philosophy can only pretend to escape the vagueness and metaphorical nature of its language despite its pretense at formality and precision (MP 292).

What was first intended unreflectively as an act of denominational ecumenism devolves into interdenominational vagueness and then into nondenominational secularism.

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

Thus we come again to the recognition that it was the very vagueness of Whitehead's formulation, at least as read by Wieman, which made it possible for Wieman to be so excited by it.

Show me as a glaring example since you mentioned it the vagueness of the rapture in the bible and mens ability to get it right or get it wrong.

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Her vagueness, although frustrating, is consistent with her emphasis upon conversion as the prerequisite for concrete, local solutions: «Only by understanding how the web of life works can we also learn to sustain it rather than destroy it.

is not at all clear, and laws may be «void for vagueness» - we as citizens have a right to know when we cross a line — and that is long before the grand jury tells, or alleges to us, that is, into a coercive plea bargaining system — and we might want to let our Peers decide that, as in «Trial By Jury Of,» western - civilization - foundation department

The vagueness was not corrected by the 1972 Indo - Pak Simla Agreement, which renamed the Ceasefire Line as the Line of Control.

It is interesting that Ed Miliband is the fourth weakness - not, it seems, as potent as Labour's vulnerabilities on the deficit and their general vagueness.

This could be the underlying issue leading to unanswered questions as they relate to the vagueness that often is an IBS diagnosis.

Making movies steeped in vagueness these days is proving to be an excellent way to earn critical praise, but being artfully ambiguous strikes me as a way to cover for not being able to finish the job.

Yet as the film slides from the intriguing to the contrived, the events acquire a metaphysical vagueness.

Everlasting's production process remains as frustratingly opaque as its contestants, and it isn't always enough that the vagueness gives Rachel and Quinn a wide - open playing field for their mind games.

But The Gifted supplies some additional reasons anyway, with customary vagueness about how it fits into a greater continuity: The X-Men as the public knows them have «disappeared,» and it's (intentionally) difficult to tell whether this is an early step in the process that leads to the mutant - light world of Logan, the mutant - annihilating alternate timeline of Days Of Future Past, or just a contemporary version of the periodic X-Men recessions that seem to plague the earlier incarnations of the team (Days Of Future Past and Apocalypse have both Xavier's school and his injustice - fighting squadron expanding and receding as needed — part of that infinite - origins deal the X-Men movies traffic in).

The assailant's plea of self - defense, which the audience deeply wants to reject as a racist lie, now sits in a murk of vagueness.

And so what seems conspicuously «indistinct» about In the Mood for Love — the pervasive sense of simplicity that governs the drama, from the convenience of its setup to the vagueness of what proceeds from it — becomes, in retrospect, a sophisticated expression of the fundamentally abstract quality of memory and reflection, not so much a paean to past love as to past love remembered in the present.

Her blankness as a character made it all the easier to insert yourself in her place as a reader, but when you're charged with bringing her to life on screen, that vagueness of personality is a huge, maybe insurmountable challenge.

The vagueness that surrounds Jack stamps him more firmly as someone who doesn't just happen to be American, but represents America.

While quick and eager to offer food for thought with its questions raised, they are then far less sure to offer any sort of satisfying explanations or even at least the beginnings of them, the wishy - washy vagueness ultimately coming off as a willful decision less for intriguing, stimulating ambiguity than to rather gracelessly leave open back doors for sequels.

To shy away means to give all this brutality the mystery and vagueness it needs in order to continue (same as censoring pictures of coffins and battlefields, etc.), and in doing so, the first film, directed by Gary Ross, felt almost like a betrayal.

As a result, there are different kinds of statutory vagueness.

The fact that nobody really knows also attests to the vagueness of these definitions and to disputation even among advocates as to what exactly qualifies as giftedness.)

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.

There's a touch of front - end vagueness when entering fast corners, but once tucked in, the Turbo tracks into the apex nicely, with the rear - wheel steering offering an almost - perceptible shift in yaw as it settles into its groove with reassuring tautness.

The steering feels direct, as well, and has very little on - center vagueness.

Fretful, earnest, ambitious strivers — we take no comfort in existence unfurling easefully as God intended (my mother speaking, a middling midwesterner who knew how to let things unfold without rush, her head wreathed with vagueness, the smoke of her cig circling upward).

Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well... [as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon... «gross misbehavior and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and inconsistent with the marriage contract»... the relative vagueness of the terms «gross misbehavior and wickedness» left room for interpretation by Rhode Island judges.

Cameron Kunzelman pushed Polansky's «ideological container» concept further by exploring flow's origin as a vague term slowly stripped of that vagueness, turning instead into a conservative moniker.

One may want to hold onto the bare spots, the incomplete edges, the awkward vagueness, and the loose compositions suggestive of an unfinished painting, much as with Clare Grill or Patricia Treib.

Maybe the vagueness is part of the point — just as for Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt down the hall, who since Stonewall has merged the glitter and excess of Catholic ritual and camp.

In 1999, a year after winning the Turner, when he might have been expecting some respectability and establishment ease, the exhibition Sensation: Young British Art in the Saatchi Collection toured to New York's Brooklyn Museum of Art, featuring The Holy Virgin Mary, a vision of a black Virgin floating in an undulating golden space, her lower half a flowery vagueness, all around her a constellation of vaginas sampled from porn magazines, with a globe of elephant dung representing her right breast, and two more lumps of dung as rests for the canvas.

People take this as uncertainty or vagueness on the part of scientists.

Climate change denial has been so effective because the «denial community» has mischaracterized the necessarily guarded language of serious scientific dialogue as vagueness and uncertainty.

«Climate change denial has been so effective because the «denial community» has mischaracterized the necessarily guarded language of serious scientific dialogue as vagueness and uncertainty,» Rockefeller and Snowe wrote ExxonMobil Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson.