As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific metaphysical view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach. |
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But we cannot know that the metaphysical principles must be instantiated, at the level of phenomena, in one particular way. |
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They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their metaphysical questions remain. |
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The really metaphysical poem-i.e. something of use Here, of use Now as soul-making and soul-moving-concerns neither objects nor conceits. |
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In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books. |
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And then we are faced with the difficult metaphysical question of whether such a universe is really possible. |
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It could be argued that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is incoherent for deep metaphysical and empirical reasons. |
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The essay is a reflection by Nancy on the physical and metaphysical fallout of the heart transplant he had received ten years previously. |
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I think most New Zealanders would agree that it is appropriate to consider spiritual and metaphysical matters as part of a consent process. |
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And an immersion in his oeuvre is an effective cure for many chronic ailments of a metaphysical nature that one might suffer. |
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Newton repudiated the Cartesian programme of deducing scientific laws from indubitable metaphysical principles. |
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His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence. |
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Systems of thought that are fundamentally metaphysical in nature are not testable and can therefore never be proven incorrect. |
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He attacked or dismissed their metaphysical beliefs, and particularly the philosophies of history of Hegel and his successors. |
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It is only then that the union of the physical and the metaphysical becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do. |
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Many from the metaphysical church described a mystical and often immanent deity. |
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But either way, ID is a metaphysical explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications. |
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With the dual sensations of both physical and metaphysical pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud. |
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However, you will live in a metaphysical world, where reality and illusions will be so skewed that they will appear to be identical. |
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The preamble is all about metaphysical, ill-defined concepts, as Dr Mapp pointed out. |
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David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what metaphysical hoops he is forced through. |
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On one level there is the English metaphysical tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne. |
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John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre. |
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The answer lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and metapsychological assumptions. |
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Evolutionary theory is no more tied to metaphysical naturalism or atheism than is meteorology or medical science. |
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His sharply defined images and his metaphysical view of space and time pointed to a pictorial concept that was entirely his own. |
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He has a few rounds of shadow-boxing with Ahriman, recites some metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, and that's it. |
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It defies narrative conventions by its length, its metaphysical breadth and its visual sumptuosity. |
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It is no wonder that this great forest regent correlates to the heart chakra in the metaphysical anatomy of the human organism. |
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Some Cartesians strayed little from Descartes' scientific and metaphysical theories. |
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As for many romantic poets, love is the agent for the fusion of souls, spiritual transcendence, and metaphysical existence. |
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A third way Derrida is metaphysical is that he assumes that meaning has validity only if it is total and absolutely non-contradictory. |
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The objective of Neoplatonism was to find a metaphysical unity which could give meaning to all physical existence. |
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He also believed that moral agency and freedom are compatible with metaphysical necessity. |
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In general, doxastic, metaphysical, modal, semantic, or syntactic expressions are not epistemic. |
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It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism. |
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In addition, God has, though not with metaphysical necessity, all the moral perfections. |
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But at any rate they are dealing with two different domains, two different areas, the epistemologic and the metaphysical. |
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So a culture based on abstract reasoning, or on various metaphysical precepts, may itself be simply a product of evolutionary change. |
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You might say that this is the metaphysical residue not soaked up by Kantian epistemology. |
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This relentless rectilinearity is not presented as an underlying metaphysical reality, as in a Mondrian abstraction. |
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Surely this pensive fairytale of metaphysical obsession reaches the deepest abysses of ecstasy and darkness. |
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It is a metaphysical experience based on the interconnectedness of nature and humans. |
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It bore ethical and metaphysical implications that professional psychology could not rationally explain or justify. |
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The work of both artists is fuelled by a need to communicate the metaphysical essence of our existence. |
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This ingenious man, however metaphysical and alembicated he may be in his writings, was of great simplicity in his character and conversation. |
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The existence of zombies would be a clear counter-example to this metaphysical determination. |
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For what happens is that one by one the moral and metaphysical temptations are dismissed as unreal or unmeaning. |
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It is a sign of the times, of our tumultuous, dizzying culture of metaphysical angst. |
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As metaphysical mirror images, Yalis remind us we have various animal instincts rolled into this human form. |
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Again, the goal is metaphysical austerity and faithfulness to our epistemic position. |
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We can create metaphysical arguments as to their truth or falsity either way, but in everyday epistemic terms cannot help but believe them. |
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Menand suggests that the author's avoidance of such metaphysical pathos was what made much of his writing awkward and dry. |
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These doctrines are not subject to empirical proof or disproof, since they are, in the last analysis, metaphysical, or at least axiological. |
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We're ushered through at the double and there is little time to appreciate the metaphysical ambience. |
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Not every metaphysical picture makes this disentanglement possible, of course. |
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Thus, one of the things that I've been working on is a sort of metaphysical, mystical energy tantra, where the rush of energy is held inside you. |
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After abandoning Manicheism he turned to Neoplatism to elucidate his metaphysical thoughts about God. |
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Both the material and metaphysical universes of the indigenous people were turned upside down. |
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But bundle theory is supposed to explain the structure of things on a metaphysical, not scientific level. |
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In the middle ages the myth of the golem, a living creature made from clay in the image of Adam, was the pinnacle of metaphysical alchemy. |
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Darwin based his theory on scientific hypothesis and not metaphysical premises. |
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Others come from more orthodox religious traditions, readily linking parapsychology with its heterodox metaphysical precursors. |
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The Virgin Mary gives suck to the infant Jesus both as his historical mother and as the metaphysical image of nourishing Mother Church. |
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In Beckettian performance, the physical encompasses or fringes on the metaphysical. |
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The point of Trinity Sunday is not to try to figure out a mathematical or metaphysical puzzle. |
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The weather invokes a metaphysical sense of coming apocalypse, signaled by the bells that continue to toll throughout. |
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There are natural alliances between Entity Realism and metaphysical atomism, and between Structural Realism and the Great-Field metaphysic. |
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In the 17th century this question sparked a furious metaphysical and scientific controversy on the existence, nature and measure of force. |
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Clearly, whether that inference is valid or not turns on a metaphysical question about the identity of persons and minds. |
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It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of metaphysical and moral questions, but it is not doing that. |
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So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the metaphysical question as to the meaning of being. |
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So our concern is not to answer the relativist by some cunning intellectual or metaphysical trick. |
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On this metaphysical question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible. |
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Thus Triodes unwillingly reinforces the Heideggerian fallacy that mythic or metaphysical registers are directly generative of social programmes. |
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At every stage of life, Wharton searched in religion and philosophy for answers to pressing metaphysical and ontological questions. |
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However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the metaphysical question of the nature of body. |
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However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the metaphysical result in question. |
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Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our metaphysical questions, we can't help asking them anyway. |
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The roots of relativism lie not in empirical data but in certain epistemological and metaphysical preconceptions. |
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Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds. |
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It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility. |
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But even though there is little outward show of anything metaphysical going on, my cats quickly cotton on to what I am doing. |
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Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it. |
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If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding metaphysical answers to questions that are in large part semantical. |
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Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns. |
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Standard Big Bang cosmogeny does therefore seem to have those metaphysical implications which some have found so discomfiting. |
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This is a scientific hypothesis, but it challenges the metaphysical assumption on which conventional science is based. |
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His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the metaphysical and epistemological views he then held. |
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As a rule, Leibniz emphasized the certainty of his metaphysical principles rather than the contingent nature of empirical knowledge. |
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Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a metaphysical argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law. |
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Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the metaphysical knowledge. |
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This, in turn, is based on the metaphysical assumption that the universe is harmonious and coherent. |
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Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of metaphysical philosophers, notably Plato. |
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For Sartre, we should reject intellectualism, we should reject all metaphysical speculation, including philosophy itself. |
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As that great deflator of metaphysical questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it. |
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He left the U.S., seeking a spiritual and metaphysical connection for his work elsewhere. |
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A chapter on the metaphysical poets is four-fifths Donne to one-fifth Herbert, with Marvell failing to get a look-in. |
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Caleb makes clear that those plaguing him are honest-to-god metaphysical beings and not traumatic figments. |
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This study shows that throughout his life, Guru Nanak did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts. |
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The Greek, metaphysical concept of the Logos is in sharp contrast to the concept of a personal God described in anthropomorphic terms typical of Hebrew thought. |
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Some of the great glories of science, including many who have adorned the non-physical sciences, have been as innocent of metaphysical theory as so many police lieutenants. |
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But when the heart gets involved, all our painfully acquired metaphysical insights go right out the window, and we're reduced to battling it out like rutting chimpanzees. |
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If a macrobiotic diet is healthy it is by accident, since foods are selected not for their physical or nutritional qualities, but for their metaphysical properties. |
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Careful study of the Pseudo-Dionysian writings has uncovered many parallels between the theurgical doctrines of Iamblichus, and the triadic metaphysical schema of Proclus. |
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Even John Adams, the transatlantic dean of minimalism, is at heart a maximalist, if the hectic massiness of his own essay in metaphysical erotics, Harmonium, is a guide. |
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The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now. |
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The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in metaphysical questions about human responsibility for moral behavior. |
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However, especially for those of us who find such metaphysical disputes sterile, questions about the paranormal have a very important part to play in the debate. |
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Given this view of the progressive metaphysical appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road. |
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This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts. |
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I think that the two types of cosmology, that is religious cosmology based on a metaphysical vision or view of the universe and modern cosmology, should not be confused. |
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As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than metaphysical. |
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What is this metaphysical view about free will that I wish to attack? |
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It is to this problem that Kant addressed himself, producing the most metaphysical and abstract basis that has ever been given for the common intuitions of morality. |
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Curry concedes that some intuition is involved in this meta-mathematics, but he claims that the metaphysical nature of this intuition is irrelevant. |
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For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea. |
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Now it is the confused management of metaphysical and spiritual matters. |
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Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less metaphysical. |
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These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a metaphysical nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around. |
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Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation. |
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Understanding the metaphysical through the physical or searching for the Reality behind the Appearance, constitutes the basic concept of the religious quest of the Bouls. |
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Nonetheless he helps the reader to understand where Berkeley was coming from, and throws up some challenges against Berkeleianism as a metaphysical theory. |
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Thus the natural view of change is that real, metaphysical change in a thing would be change in the monadic or internal or intrinsic properties of the thing. |
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Do you understand what deep and metaphysical things he is trying to say? |
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It is often rooted in mysticism and a metaphysical belief in vitalism. |
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Energy medicines are based upon variants of the metaphysical theory known as vitalism, a theory that has been dead in the West for over a century. |
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He could not be bothered with spiritual notions or metaphysical concepts. |
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The one assumption I hope to have unsettled in these pages is that any particular novelistic genre in itself embodies a metaphysical or transcendent approach to the real. |
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This is true only on a high plane of metaphysical logic, but it is true. |
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Here he came to change his religious views, rejecting Calvinism which had the notion of predestination as a metaphysical necessity and the basis of faith. |
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In most, if not all, ancient religions with a belief in reincarnation, the soul entering a body is seen as a metaphysical demotion, a sullying and impure rite of passage. |
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As a metaphysical belief there is no way to disprove the existence of chi. |
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Luther's dualism is not metaphysical but historical and Christological. |
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He admits the insolubility of human reason of the basic metaphysical problem i.e. how becoming arose out of immutable being and plurality out of Unity. |
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Objects have meaning through their interaction with individual Dasein, rather than through a connection to a purer metaphysical conception of the object. |
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In my tale, I set out the metaphysical principles, i.e. principles outside the closed system of the ethics being discussed, on which the ethics are based. |
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Once academic scientific studies were established they rejected and ridiculed anything spiritual or metaphysical if it could not be proven by a mathematical formula. |
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Heraclitus was a dialectician, while Zeno was a metaphysical relativist. |
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The promised metaphysical delights turn out to be pretty guessable from the trailer, and they don't really do all that much with the idea once it's out in the open. |
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According to this view, rational discussion about metaphysical ideas, about moral values and even about purposes is possible. |
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The nature of the world, according to Berkeley, is only approached through properly metaphysical speculation and reasoning. |
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Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. |
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Thomas's later works were of a more metaphysical nature, more experimental in their style and focusing more overtly on his spirituality. |
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The metaphysical was unique as the open sea would challenge African slaves vision of the ocean as habitable. |
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Eliot's essays were a major factor in the revival of interest in the metaphysical poets. |
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Logical possibility must not be confused with other physical and metaphysical considerations about the compossibility of individuals. |
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One could hear the echoes of Robert Hass, but Roo seemed more numinous or metaphysical. |
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They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works. |
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As a result, most metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic and other traditional philosophical problems came to be considered pseudoproblems. |
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This metaphysical world shaped the fourth century debate leading to the formulations of the Nicene Creed. |
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There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species. |
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At the time of the Civil War, poetry had been dominated by metaphysical poetry of the John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Lovelace sort. |
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This gave rise to what they saw as metaphysical pseudoproblems and other conceptual confusions. |
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His wry and eerie metaphysical extrapolations make lesser efforts seem toylike. |
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His work has received much criticism over the years, especially concerning his metaphysical form. |
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He denied the real existence of metaphysical universals and advocated the reduction of ontology. |
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The concept of chakras is embedded in Hindu traditions and is used to denote several states of the human metaphysical structure. |
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As for metaphysical questions, it's true that not everyone agrees with the logical positivists in finding them nonsensical. |
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Rather than limiting himself to ethics and politics, he makes metaphysical claims about how Kantians understand the person. |
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Some Hindu philosophers and theologians argue for a transcendent metaphysical structure with a single divine essence. |
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Essentially saying the theory of absolutes, or metaphysical realism, was unnecessary to make sense of the world. |
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Both theistic and atheistic ideas, for epistemological and metaphysical reasons, are profuse in different schools of Hinduism. |
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Other artists, such as the Italians Fabrizio Clerici and William Girometti, were influenced both by surrealist and by metaphysical suggestions. |
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As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief. |
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My solution was that the doctrine of natural selection is a most successful metaphysical research programme. |
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Although it is metaphysical, it sheds much light upon very concrete and very practical researches. |
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The theory also seemed, in Popper's eyes, to support metaphysical realism and the regulative idea of a search for truth. |
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Aristotle's implicit totalitarianism rests ultimately on a questionable inference from a metaphysical untruism. |
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I briefly postpone for now discussion of what difference it makes whether this risk is metaphysical or doxastic in nature. |
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He argued that Wittgenstein undertook metaphysical ordinary language philosophy as he reduced ordinary language to the phenomenalist language of sense-data. |
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Kant was concerned about certain metaphysical notions, but we think that usurpatory concepts reflect a general phenomenon of language as it evolves over time. |
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Appeal to physical complexity by any non-reductive physicalists as a way of explaining the metaphysical basis for persons is implicitly an appeal to structure. |
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Donne is considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. |
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The gros-bon-ange is the metaphysical double of the physical being, and, since it does not exist in the world of matter, it is the immortal twin who survives the mortal man. |
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In addition, Kant thinks the Pyrrhonist would accept his proofs that specific metaphysical concepts and principles refer and are true, respectively. |
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Smallwood points the challenges for slaves were physical and metaphysical. |
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The metaphysical taxonomy of reality in magic systems occurs to varying degrees of depth, ranging from flavor text in small or large amounts to deep integration with gameplay. |
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Donne is generally considered the most prominent member of the metaphysical poets, a phrase coined in 1781 by Samuel Johnson, following a comment on Donne by John Dryden. |
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Futurism was succeeded by the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, who exerted a strong influence on the Surrealists and generations of artists to follow. |
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Giorgio de Chirico, and his previous development of metaphysical art, was one of the important joining figures between the philosophical and visual aspects of Surrealism. |
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He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. |
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For Popper, metaphysical and historical indeterminism go hand in hand. |
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Thus Berkeley denied the existence of matter as a metaphysical substance, but did not deny the existence of physical objects such as apples or mountains. |
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So while foundationalism and descriptive metaphysics are not the same project, they share a metaphysical impulse shown in their reliance on an unanalyzed notion of necessity. |
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In it, Steward attempts to provide an account of agent-causation that can avoid the charge of metaphysical unintelligibility so often leveled against agent-causalism. |
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Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. |
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Ontological arguments are not metaphysical arguments but remarks on how concepts function in religions, which by necessity must be critiqued within their living context. |
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By charting this otherworldly universe, Matthew Carl Strecher makes palpable for the reader a bizarre literary landscape where the metaphysical and the tangible often collide. |
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Current scholars, including Nagle, Chalmers, Sprigge, and Skrbina, have also explored metaphysical panpsychism and the ethical behaviour mandated by such belief. |
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In particular, the rocket with the image of Padre Pio has a truly extraordinary disorienting effect, so obvious and so strident that it becomes a perfect metaphysical object. |
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Of course, there have been multiple feminist theologies which have sought to reconfigure the Trinity in ways which avoid this kind of metaphysical abstractionism. |
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