Sentences with phrase «very idea of truth»

We live in an age when the very idea of truth is often called into question.

The America of the recent past has lost faith in words, in reliably coherent meanings, in the possibility of common language, in the very idea of truth.

Not exact matches

In truth, the bishops of Malta, and other bishops around the world who go about exclaiming that it's impossible to obey God regarding sex, are setting in motion two very destructive ideas.

In our September editorial we looked at some implications of the idea of truth as a» gift received» (CiV, 34 & 77) but apart from Stratford Caldecott and Tracey Rowland, very few have taken up this profound idea from Pope Benedict's encyclical (See our November Road from Regensburg).

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

In a pluralist system of political and economic democracy, each and every one may enter into the free competition of ideas, but he who claims an absolute truth threatens the foundations of the very system: he is a potential fascist.»

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Even though popular culture is still open to supernormal appearances from the «beyond,» many sincere seekers of truth now scoff at the very idea of revelation.

Jim's quest is willing to explore inner darknesses to break through to spiritual truth, but these people only want to exploit such, and smirk at the very idea of quest.

Young skeptics like me long to deconstruct old notions of truth, salvation, faith, and doubt, and in doing so, we have developed ideas that can easily be described as «subtle differences or distinctions in expression, meaning, or response,» or «very slight differences or variation in color or tone.»

The very cardinal nature of our faith is paradoxical — «Semper simul peccartor et justus» — we are simultaneously justified and sinner (Luther)-- but that truth must be expelled or certainly hushed when the construction of checks and balances which morally fence us from the bane of «the world» (dangerous ideas) become the goal for the «common good».

He turned his eyes away from the ungovernable, essentially inconceivable flow of time, and so away from the very process by which being shows itself, and looked instead toward a fabulous eternity of changeless essences, the timeless «ideas» or (more literally) «looks» of things; and it was to this latter realm that he accorded the authority of «truth» while consigning everything proper to time to the sub-philosophical category of «unlikeness.»

Shy women who get asked on a date and virtually have no idea what to say as a result of shyness, can if truth be told lessen your chances of being asked out again when you're asked, be very flattering as if you are glad to have been asked.

It's OK but it's a very brief idea really, spread very thin and while in those opening couple of minutes you think it might prove to be a solid enough foundation for the score, in truth that turns out to be essentially as good as it gets.

The latter part returns to the question of whether the myth might have some basis in truth, lending very interesting credence to the idea while at the same time raising doubts.

«Before coming here, I had an idea with a foundation where I was working to do a day of leisure, which is what we do now, batucada with functional diversity, and the truth is that it went very well.

It's an inconvenient truth, but much of art history is based on that very idea.

Donald Davidson's «On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme,» first published in 1974, appears in his Inquiries into Truth & Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 1984).

There's a building storm of indignation out there among those literate in science — who have gone from depression and despair at the tsunami of fossil fueled ignorance that's passed for reporting and discussion of climate issues, — to real resolve, and a willingness to fight back, not just for the planet, but for the very idea that objective truth exists, and that science is a tool to find it.

Leaving aside inherent hypocricy implicit in the assumption of the truth of AGW that follows with mentioning adaptation, the very idea itself is simply a poor attempt at painting over the rust.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.