Together, rational principle and generative force constituted the basic ingredients of a variety of expressions of the Neo-Confucian affirmation of the reality of the world.
The background for such an approach seems to be that the "a posteriori" way, which according to Kepler was taken over by Copernicus himself, cannot lead to a necessary affirmation of the reality of the new world system, but only to a probable, and hence to an "instrumental", representation of it as a computational device.
His sometimes contradictory statements on this issue alternating between overt denials of the reality of species in some places, and clear affirmation of the reality of species in others—have been seen as an intentional rhetorical strategy (Stamos 2007; Beatty 1985 in Kohn 1985a).
A central, common core of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the affirmation of the reality of one, and only one, God.
And "Aristotle" meant to Aquinas not so much an individual author as a specific worldview, namely, the affirmation of natural reality as a whole, including the bodies and natural cognitive powers of human beings.
The Geluk tradition's unapologetic affirmation of conventional reality, including the self, is a point of contention with other schools, who argue that their philosophy simply affirms the status quo and thus cannot accommodate a means to revise or transform the world or one's relation to it.
This is the affirmation of a new reality which, considering its growing role in present-day society, requires research, especially regarding demand, motivation and profile.
The biblical faith in God as Creator and incarnate Redeemer is an explicit affirmation of the goodness, reality, and contingency of the created world assumptions underlying scientific work.
To them, President Clinton's visit represents little more than an affirmation of an economic reality that is streaking far ahead of politics.
The affirmation of mystery meant that the reality of God was unattainable to unaided human reason (theologians had long used the word "incomprehensible," which says more than modern theologians wish to say).
