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... -11- bitterness, have gone forth on all hands against me, as if I were propounding speculative notions, or propagating heretical errors. Second... ...ttempt no explanation of it, give it up as sybilline leaves were never given up, invent fictions and imaginations concerning the middle state, adopt ... ... his wit undiscoverable. Man can be historical and antiquarian, he can be observant and speculative concerning the present; he can also disconnect h... ...ading thought! Such loss of dignity! Such dishonour t o God! It cannot be. It must be a fiction of the schools. So naturally doth this reasoning con... ...de use of in attending to its preservation. The first row, or the first of its arms was fiction, —sufficient for its first beginnings, while yet it ... ...at once ignorant and gross: but, as it was not only difficult, but impossible, that the fiction should long endure without being discovered, two oth... ...Messiah Vol. 1 Part II. -241- which by persuasion appears impossible; to defend the fiction from all insults, and by the same means to reply to ...

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... high talent for painting, both of scenery and persons, is visible in this Fiction; the promise of a Novel such as we have few. But there wants maturi... ... learn, is mean and meagre enough in its purposes, however striking to the speculative or senti- mental bystander. Pray be assured that whatever you m... ... singu- larly subtle, patient and comprehensive mind. It will be our chief speculative monument of this age. Mill and I could not meet above two or th...

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...ves, solve environmental crises, war, disasters, etc. However this is the fiction of science fiction. Beyond the fiction, whether science really cha... ...and <Non-A>. Even so, Darwin did fabricate such a pure evolution, rather a fiction.)This is dynaphilosophy, the study of infinite road of an idea. <... ...erse and humankind look like in a million years? (This is not a science-fiction/fantastic question, but a more scientific problem.) In what direct... ...st the confined or constrained (e.g., to a spot-oriented world - A science fiction film has compared our globe to a tiny spot in the universe.) way. ... ...(Famous philosopher and mathematician):“Buddhism is a combination of both speculative and scientific philosophy. It advocates the Scientific Method a...

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...iver or through the St. Lawrence. Though it’s a question how it would end up in Lake Michigan? Speculation and imagination become fodder for speculative fiction writers when one sees something like this and read the articles. I am sure someone might be looking at this with speculation well that’s the power of suggestion throttling one’s imagination (like someone ...

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...n busy with it; for it is in effect the thing, which figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be with out mystery; ... ...ther is the giving license to plea sures, and a voluptuous life. For as for speculative heresies (such as were in ancient times the Arians, and now t...

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...s from later centuries, and from a historical point of view is necessarily speculative. According to the traditions written in the New Testament, at s... ... aspects of human functioning. It is at this point that mystics, alongside speculative philosophers, may fairly claim a conviction that spiritual, par... ...ural and supernatural, sacred and secular, real and imaginary, factual and fictional, ordinary and extraordinary. How can entities of such incommensur...

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...Kant wrote: "A pure reason faith is the guide or compass, which the speculative thinker based on his rational quarreling (Vernunftstreifereien) in the field of supersensible objects, man of common but (morally) sound reason but his way, and probably in theoretical as practical point of view, ...

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...he possibility of Being that has no extension in space at all, even as our speculative geometry can entertain the possibil- ity of dimensions—fourth, ... ... jour- nalist who signs his articles and as the author of various books of fiction, as a frequent name, that is, to any one much forced back upon read...

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... really go to Paris and Naples, some to Calcutta, there is a sort of legal fiction that such an assump- tion is steadily taking root. Yet, unhappily, ... ...om—’both leaders and followers,’ he says, ‘may together reflect—that, upon speculative and visionary reform- ers,’ (i.e. those of 1640) ‘the severest ... ...ellent for the whole. We need therefore not trouble ourselves (except as a speculative question) with the comparison of the two states; because, as a ...

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...nce dealing with such anomalous cases. There is a casuistry, also, for the speculative understanding, as well as for the moral (which is the practical... ... sanctions to his wickedness or absurdity from what were nothing else than fictions of his own. Thus did the Papists draw a plenary justification of i... ...parent carelessness is very discreet management. His object was, under the fiction of an independent multi- tude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for h... ...it is attempted to elicit their opinions upon a point of law by a proposed fiction. And very reasonably; for in these fic- titious cases all the littl... ...join issue with him, and perempto- rily challenge his verdict upon his own fiction. For it is sin- gular enough, that a modern mathematician of eminen... ...not endure. What nation but the French would have tolerated that monstrous fiction about La Fontaine, by way of illustrating his supposed absence of m...

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... original emotion (felt by the artist) with us. It is very much like those science fiction contraptions which allow for the decomposition of the as... ...s such as a singularity (both finite and infinite, in some respects). We prefer the fiction of finiteness (temporal, spatial, logical) – over the re... ...level perception. A philosophical system built on intuition would, perforce, be non speculative. Hence, Phenomenology's emphasis on the study of con... ...c supply - have turned against him. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, the narcissist striv... ... inefficiency and corruption, the decline of American productivity, the pursuit of speculative profits at the expense of manufacturing, the deterio... ... no one knows. The diversionist and convergionist schools of evolution are equally speculative as are the basic assumptions of both astrobiology an... ...t which grand unification (including gravity) is to be expected. But this is really speculative stuff. No one know how large these extra dimensions ... ...t you believe could become facts tomorrow, or that you believe have more fact than fiction hidden in them? A. Superstitions stem from one of the... ... is possible. As Arthur Clark, the British scientist and renowned author of science fiction, said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indisti...

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...ion of chivalric romances as a child subsequently influenced such imagery, which is prevalent in many of her mystical works.[2] It is also not unduly speculative that living in a walled city like Ávila must have influenced her thinking. The concept of an interior life is still important in Spanish thinking in the twenty-first century. An English translation was published i...

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... higher and the lower consciousness on a slightly firmer, if still highly speculative, footing, I will appeal to concepts generated within string t... ... This idea, highly speculative though it is, can certainly open up a whole eternity of poten...

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...part of it." Cardona spoke in a way that Brand couldn't distinguish fact from fiction. "Alright," Brand said, "we'll try it." Brand needed the mone... ...ot troops. But Intel would certainly help. And I've got a lot of it. If, this speculative war, ever takes place, I can provide the locations to most... ...uld do?" "With all due respect, General, are you crazy? Or are you writing a fiction novel?" "I'm serious. What do you think they would do?" 1... ...pet along the path. 312 J.Cross/Artemis His mind was blending fact and fiction into a twisted scenario. The threat of a terrorist attack was ... ... fiction into a twisted scenario. The threat of a terrorist attack was only a speculative option. He had to talk to Brand. He informed the preside...

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...e world we recognize officially in literature and in soci- ety is a poetic fiction far handsomer and cleaner and better than the world that really is.... ... simple thing. It is a deliberately optimistic scheme of life, with both a speculative and a practical side. In its gradual development during the las... ..., to open their eyes. It is evidently bound to develop still farther, both speculatively and practically, and its latest writ- ers are far and away th... ..., the mind-curers, so far as I am acquainted with them, profess to give no speculative explanation Evil is em- pirically there for them as it is for e... ...t at- tention. Of course, as our next lectures will show us, this is a bad speculative omission, but it is intimately linked with the practical merits... ... in its time; and although it would be pre- mature to say that there is no speculative issue what- ever from the puzzle, it is perfectly fair to say t... ... God, it has let me off clear this time!” Is not its blessedness a fragile fiction? Is not your joy in it a very vulgar glee, not much unlike the snic... ...on. The beautiful joyousness of their poly- theism is only a poetic modern fiction. They knew no joys comparable in quality of preciousness to those w...

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...of simple de- votion, which his beloved Jesuit priest had inspired in him, speculative theology took but little hold upon the young man’s mind. When h... ...his wife disap- peared; with his selfishness and faithlessness her foolish fiction of love and reverence was rent away. Love!—who is to love what is b...

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...appy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets, witch doctors, novelists and our next-door neighbors. These bouquets of specul... ...e have some fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romantic notion developed from an exposure to the fantasies of fictio... ... inabilities to move successfully up Maslow‘s mountain. There are harmless ways of forgetting our world. Reading mysteries, romance or science fictio... ...orgetting our world. Reading mysteries, romance or science fiction will probably take your mind off what‘s bothering you, but reading good non-fictio...

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...me down to us uncorrupted. CHAPTER XIII ? It is shown, that Scripture teaches only very Simple Doctrines, such as suffice for right conduct. Error in speculative doctrine not impious ? nor knowledge pious. Piety consists in obedience. CHAPTER XIV ? Definitions of Faith, the True Faith, and the Foundations of Faith, which is once for all separated from Philosophy. Danger re...

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...es only very Simple Doctrines, such as suffice for right conduct. Error in speculative doctrine not impious – nor knowledge pious. Piety consists in o... ...in some miracle, with a view of confounding phi- losophers; or, lastly, in speculative matters after they had be- come mixed up with religion, so that... ...y, faculties; still I should be surprised if I found them teaching any new speculative doctrine, which was not a com- monplace to those Gentile philos... ...ould become rebellious, or without the discipline of obedience. (11) Other speculative questions, which have no direct bear- ing on this object, or ar...

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... bull’s-eyes of the window. A moralizer might find abundant themes for his speculative and imprac- ticable wisdom in a garret. There is the limbo of d...

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...of men. I looked for my name the other day in last year’s case-book of the Speculative. Naturally enough I looked for it near the *Written for the “Bo... ...asure experimentally how far I stood from the favour of the public. II THE SPECULATIVE SOCIETY is a body of some antiquity, and has counted among its ... ... begins, perhaps, to fancy that he wrongs them when he weaves them in with fiction; and looking back on them with ever-growing kindness, puts them at ... ...manity, near the bosoms and businesses of men, at the level where history, fiction and experience intersect and illu- minate each other. I am I, and Y... ...n the crags, a return to the sincerity of savage life from the comfortable fictions of the civilised. And if it be delightful to the Old Man, it is no... ...etail and trick of circumstance shall be welcome to the reader’s thoughts. Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he ... ...e loves to recall it and dwells upon its recollection with entire delight, fiction is called romance. Walter Scott is out and away the king of the rom...