Sentences with phrase «valid concepts only»

The idea of rest and motion are valid concepts only when used in relation to something else.

Not exact matches

He shows that this is similar to Chesterton's approach and W.V.O. Quine's argument that «the only valid test of a belief is whether it fits into a web of connected beliefs that accords with our experience of the whole» (p. 63 - I would think that Newman's concept of the «Illative Sense» would dovetail with this.)

The question, therefore, is whether such a concept of a cause to which the infinite reality of pure act belongs as a factor constituting it without becoming an intrinsic constituent of the entity of the finite cause itself, but in some way remains free, detached from the process of becoming, but provides the real ground of the self - transcending operation of the finite agent itself, is a valid and demonstrable concept, or only a paradoxical and intrinsically self - contradictory construction which can only conceal the fact that our thought has reached an impasse.

With this conviction in mind, and thinking in particular of Wordsworth and Shelley, he is moved to ask: «Is it not possible that the standardized concepts of science are only valid within narrow limitations, perhaps too narrow for science itself?»

To them, dominance and aggression have become discredited as concepts, only their credentials are valid, stress is considered abnormal and insurmountable, any kind of correction is considered abusive, and operant conditioning has become the bible of all things behavioral.

Lacking valid SCIENCE «temperature reconstruction» can only remain a concept, as a THEORY requires valid construction, which even the «Greenhouse Theory» does NOT have, and it is NOT sufficient to cite «validation» of that theory incorporated as the USE of such needs Theory also requires to REMAIN valid.