Sentences with phrase «works by analogy»

It works by analogy, proposes a synthesis and acts sparingly.

Not exact matches

The idea is to avoid thinking by analogy — let's make this car look like that car, just sort of different or better — and instead deal with problems by stripping them down to the core and working your way up.

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

Typological exegesis differs from allegorical and anagogical exegesis in that it is controlled by the analogy of faith, which views the events and discourses of the Old Testament in indissoluble relation to Jesus Christ, to the mystery of his incarnation and the miracle of his saving work (cf. Acts 26:22; I Peter 1:10 - 12).

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

But the fact that the general line of analogy is valid and fruitful seems to me to be definitely proved by the very remarkable fact that these three systems, taken in conjunction, not only form a complementary and coherent whole, consistent within itself, but, which is even more easy of demonstration, that this whole is capable of breaking into motion and of working — that it functions, in a word.

Here we can best understand Whitehead's point by analogy with works of the imagination, since this fourth way calls upon the resources of conceptual possibility to heal the wounds inflicted by actuality.

By analogy, the ways mind works suggest ways in which people have perceived God working: step - by - step in making right the way life is to be and all - at - once in showing forth what is reaBy analogy, the ways mind works suggest ways in which people have perceived God working: step - by - step in making right the way life is to be and all - at - once in showing forth what is reaby - step in making right the way life is to be and all - at - once in showing forth what is real.

It is precisely here that the scientists I have mentioned have been most impressed by process thinking, for they also see such an analogy running through the order of nature and they find that the use of that analogy is valuable to them in their work.

Duméry makes much of this, whether it be a question of descriptive analogies like those of Otto in The Idea of the Holy or of a justification of these analyses by a critique of knowledge such as is suggested by the works of Husserl, Scheler, or Gabriel Marcel.

«By looking at the analogies between social science and biology, this work is pushing toward a unification between the two fields.

It brings together the author's work on the southern coast of Peru and, by mixing the results of excavation with ethnographic analogy, presents a model of Nasca culture that adds significantly to our understanding of the complex societies in the Andes.

Valeri Lantz - Gefroh was very good at not saying, «this is what you should do,» but just trying to get me to explain my work in different ways, by using analogies....

By analogy, the scientists sought to fix RNA in place in the cell, make a tiny ball with many matching DNA replicas of each RNA, then adapt next - gen DNA sequencing so it worked in fixed cells.

These remedies take longer to work, but — going back to the bathtub analogy we talked about earlier — may turn down the faucet by reducing the body's reaction to allergens or help to open up a clogged drain.

The OPC - HSV analogy works especially well because Opel is owned by General Motors, just as Holden is.

-- if you complete the analogy by pretending that the only people allowed into the auto workers» union were the people working for General Motors (at least until very, very recently) and the plant owners told the union rep, «look, it doesn't matter that we pay you pittance, if a plant goes down because of those dealers, we're all out of work.

That work, Artefacts (2011), will be joined by other pieces, among them selections from an ongoing photographic series (left) called «Geographical Analogies (2006 --- present)» in which the artist juxtaposes historically and geographically disparate locations (for example, New Jersey's Passaic and Cambodia's Angkor) that have become emblems of deterioration.

Analogies have been made between Cai's practice and the work of Marcel Duchamp, however earlier collage works by Max Ernst might be a more appropriate comparison.

DG.B: The Non-Site analogy is a way to think through how many of the things I reference and utilize in my work point elsewhere — whether it be to a different location by way of a direct 1:1 reference, such as the directly sourced cave - works of When, or an entirely different timescale by way of an object with a deep geologic history, as seen in the Moment series.

If diaspora formation is, as Okwui Enqwezor describes it, «a becoming; a process marked by incessant regroupings, recreations and reiteration,» then perhaps Haworthia tessellata in Eto Otitigbe's work serves as an analogy for the very way in which dispersed populations are fragmented and absorbed, yet are ever expanding and changing.

Traceable to early 20th - century art by Picasso, Duchamp and Schwitters, junk art has analogies in Dada, the works of Alberto Burri (1915 - 95) and later Arte Povera artists from Italy, Spanish artists like Antoni Tapies (b. 1923), and the Californian Funk art movement.

It is difficult to find another way of communicating the works of these eight artists exposed, if not by the dialogical way, finding points in common, divergent points, mirrors, symbioses, analogies, dichotomies.»

These works aren't exactly painting in drag yet they mirror this analogy by way of their scale, color and rectangular proportions.

In the catalogue produced for Lotte Lyon's exhibition in 2010 at the Landesgalerie Linz, Midori Matsui describes the work as having a strategy of gestural, metonymical analogy, which connects the artist to an American Minimalist tradition by way of the performative elements of Robert Morris, the perceptual elements of Donald Judd and the associative elements of Robert Smithson.

But these analogies are superseded by something far more crucial in the work, namely the complex, often contradictory painting space that Ferris carves out in her strongest paintings.

While such analogies attach readily to Martin's oeuvre, her work remains elusive, her practice sustained by its play of contradictions.

If the stadium - wave effect is to work in the climate system, it can only do so by analogy at best.

Dave H, your analogy works for a pan of water, but it doesn't work when the rate of heat being applied is itself influenced by features of a chaotic nature.

Isn't the analogy closer to a house with a furnace heating full blast (the sun, so also inexhaustible uninterruptible energy on the timescale in question) and a thermostat that works by opening and closing the windows and doors?

* S: (n) analogy (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others) * S: (n) analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect) «the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain»; «the models show by analogy how matter is built up» * S: (n) doctrine of analogy, analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)»

Rather what I'm saying by analogy is regardless of whether the math is right or wrong, the conclusion itself doesn't follow because the inference from low to high resolution only works in one direction and Marcott has the direction reversed.

The current system that we use is made by Nikwax Analogy and represents the first step in our work with this technology.

In addition, in some Member States certain works fall within the public domain or may be posted online free of charge by the authors concerned (see, by analogy, Scarlet Extended, paragraph 52).

Correctness is also usually the applicable standard (at para. 60) for interpreting a standard form contract (such as the CAPL operating agreement) and the same standard applies «by analogy» (at para 61) to terms such as «working interest» «which have a common meaning to participants in a given industry».

To explain the meaning of suicides in communities, Professor Dudgeon draws on an analogy used by Professor Michael Chandler, who has worked with First Nation Peoples in Canada to understand youth suicide and self harm — that «suicide is like the miner's canary».

The analogy would be to a computer virus infecting the «source code» of files in the internal working models of the attachment system, that is then passed on inter-generationally as the regulatory networks of the attachment system are «downloaded» from the parent to the child through the distorted parenting practices created by the corrupt «files» in the internal working models of the parent's attachment system (see my blog, Attachment Foundations: Regulation Systems).

Consider the analogy of working with a child who was kidnapped by a cult.