Sentences with phrase «words of human language»

Not exact matches

It argues that humans come with an inbuilt universal grammar that has a specific number of settings - each corresponding to the acceptable order in which words and parts of words can be arranged in a given language system.

Today I think that the religious dimension of human life is one of the irreducible roots of language, and I suspect that quite a few of our words developed from religious origins.

The other myth describes a time when all human beings lived in one harmonious society; «the whole earth had one language and the same words,» says the story of the Tower of Babel.2 The myth then explains why, in historical time, there have always been many languages, many cultures and many societies.

If so, we must listen appreciatively, remembering that, because all human language is relative and limited, we must not let any one word or group of words assume the qualities of an absolute, for that would be a return to the idolatry from which the faith of our fathers sought to deliver us.

That is why the Mu» tazilites maintained that the divine word was a fact that adjusted itself to human language in order to ensure the well - being of humankind.»

Our human sexuality is a language, and we are both called and given permission to become «body - words» of love.

Mother - tongue translation «conforms to the insight of the incarnation, namely, that divinity is not a human loan word but rather humanity is the chosen language of divine self - expression.»

Taken to extremes, it results in treating all words for God as free - floating metaphors pointing at a deity beyond all determinate language, which can be named in any way that expresses the depths of human experience.

God's creative action in history works in human language to make it the vehicle of truth instead of lies, and of reconciliation instead of hurt and destructive bitterness.14 In Jesus» work of atonement he spoke the words of forgiveness and reconciliation and he spoke them as indicatives and imperatives of the spirit.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

But the word can be spoken and heard in the authentic experience of reconciliation, and it stands in the language of the Gospel as the Word of God clothing itself in human speech and opening the way for the language of redemption to be spoken between God and word can be spoken and heard in the authentic experience of reconciliation, and it stands in the language of the Gospel as the Word of God clothing itself in human speech and opening the way for the language of redemption to be spoken between God and Word of God clothing itself in human speech and opening the way for the language of redemption to be spoken between God and man.

Because human words are no longer in harmony with the Word of God, languages become separate and then diversity in accordance with their subordination to different realities.

We have observed that all human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself.

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This certainty that human language is a creation and a continuation of the Word of God is also found in a hymn at Qumtan.

It is after all rather important to emphasize that in a seventh - century text, predating all reflection on language, wherever that reflection may have occurred, we find this clear statement: the fact of human speech comes from God; but language is made up by the human race, which decides for itself — arbitrarily — the words, the rules, and the syntax.

You can think of sex» within marriage and in other relationships» as a form of bonding; as a way to deepen and expand the meaning of intimacy; as a type of language even, where human beings can communicate subtly, beautifully, passionately, without words.

In a more basic way I side with the entire current of thought that makes spoken language the basis of human specificity, and here again I relate language and word.

Embedded in the debate about what register of language and what kind of words we might use in the Mass is a more fundamental, and vital, question: how valid is it to use any kind of human language to talk to, and about, God?

It is said that, if it would reach men, then it must first be transformed into a human word, translated as it were from God's language into man's language — a process in which, as in every process of translation, we have naturally to reckon with certain foreshortenings and distortions.

Jesus was The Word, i.e., God's expression of Himself in human language, the language of human personhood.

This book describes well many of the facets of the «human languages» used by the Holy Spirit to communicate the Word of God to us.

However, being an atheist I do not believe in god and can not see why people want to take serious a fairy tale written and misinterpreted so, many ways like it was passed down through word of mouth and was not translated until 400 years after the original language became extinct never mind that regards of the accuracy it was still written by a human.

Either the word «God» referred to a reality independent of human thought, language, and belief, or else there was in fact no reference.

In this respect Enns, an evangelical, is close to Catholic theology, expressed by Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu: «Just as the substantial Word of God became like men in every respect except sin, so too the words of God, expressed in human languages, became like human language in every respect except error.»

He argues that God is the one who has the world - creating power of language completely; that language is that which makes one present; that Jesus» authentically liberating and authoritative word constitutes a fulfillment of human presence (in terms of decisive presence to self, world and God); that therefore Jesus is the Word of word constitutes a fulfillment of human presence (in terms of decisive presence to self, world and God); that therefore Jesus is the Word of Word of God.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

The use of human language is for process - thinkers not restricted to the games we play with words.

In turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.»

l) «What, in short, is the «mechanism» by which God makes himself known to man, by which the Almighty touches the mightless, by which the Limitless penetrates the narrow confines of the limited, by which Time enters moment, by which the Holy invades the unholy, and the Word speaks in words» Even when this happens, as ultimately it did, as with finality it always does, in the person of Jesus Christ, all the forms and ingenuity of human language are inadequate to give it mechanical explanation.

Whether they believe it was written by God / god or a human author (let alone translated from one language to another over many years and the interpretations of those words taught / passed down over many years with many different understandings which formed with even the best intentions by men and women who were products of their time and place?)

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

A Catholic principle becomes ever clearer at this time, and Pius XII expressed it in these words: «Just as the substantial Word of God became like men in every respect except sin, so too the words of God, expressed in human languages, became like human language in every respect except error.»

By liberal Braaten means the theological liberalism that Karl Barth spoke of as a «heresy» — the view that Christian language for God represents universal human feeling writ large on the cosmos rather than God's address to humanity in a Word that disrupts preexisting categories.

The cognitive model has been validated using a database of about 1500 input sentences, based on literature on early language development, and has responded by producing a total of about 500 sentences in output, containing nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and other word classes, demonstrating the ability to express a wide range of capabilities in human language processing.

At the Liberty Science Center's Communication exhibit, visitors can explore the origins of human language, as well as how the brain responds to a range of words and sounds and how we bond using different modes of self - expression.

Awareness of our innate smelling abilities, however, is complicated because the human language doesn't have words for a trillion smells, and much of smelling happens under the radar of our consciousness.

Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services is holding the «Bridging the Word Gap Challenge» that will award $ 300,000 in prizes for innovative solutions that promote language development skills among children from low - income families, Doggett said.

«Humans organize their knowledge of social relationships into a hierarchical structure, and they also make use of hierarchical structures when deducing relationships between words in language,» notes study co-author Robert Seyfarth.

Not content with learning sign language or making up «words», he now seems capable of making stone tools on a par with the efforts of early humans.

Scientists have long believed that humans» ability to form words — basic building blocks of language — emerged as a distinctive brain mechanism to support communication.

«They've reached levels of toolmaking proficiency generally associated with an animal with a big brain, dextrous hands and symbolic language — in other words humans,» says Gavin Hunt, a biologist at the University of Auckland.

Words are the basic building blocks of human language, but they are hardly ever found in nonhuman vocal communication.

As a result, the scientists suggest that acquiring the ability to process hierarchical word patterns may have represented a critical juncture in the evolution of the human language faculty.

The networks can now correctly recognize about 88 percent of the words spoken in normal, human, English - language conversations, compared with about 96 percent for an average human listener.

«To communicate successfully with humans, computers need to be able to use words flexibly but following the same principles that guide the use of language by humans,» explains Barbara Malt, Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Lehigh University and one the project collaborators.

One of the things that makes Watson unique is its ability to understand natural language — «getting at the meaning of words and understanding what humans meant, not just what they said or wrote,» says Katharine Frase, IBM's vice president of research.

Susan Hespos, a co-author of the study, and associate professor of psychology at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences said, «We show that infants can form abstract relations before they learn the words that describe relations, meaning that relational learning in humans does not require language and is a fundamental human skill of its own.»

Human languages offer several examples of this kind, and this indicates that in forming words we tend to prefer certain sound combinations to others, irrespective of which language we speak.

Humans understand language through a variety of ways for example this might be through looking up it in a dictionary, or by associating it with words in the same sentence in a meaningful way.