Sentence examples for apprehending reality from inspiring English sources

To paraphrase the question, Tertullian asks what relationship exists between the world of revealed religion in which God's self-manifestation is the ultimate source of knowledge and the free intellectual inquiry of Greek philosophy.One may conclude, like Tertullian, that Athens and Jerusalem are in the end separate worlds, separate ways of apprehending reality.

Ortega perceived in his perspectivist mode of apprehending reality a philosophical analogue to Einstein's physics and, subsequently, invited a comparison of his philosophy of perspectivism to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.

Beyond Reason begins with the premise that there are multiple modalities for apprehending reality.

We become aware that we can apprehend reality only theoretically, because of the subjectivity of sense perception, that there are limits to what we can know.

How could he have spent his life cultivating unity of body and mind, oneness with all beings and the ability to apprehend reality directly, unmediated by thoughts or concepts or what Zen considered the arch delusion of "the self" — only to be haunted by the feeling that he lacked the most basic unity of all?

If Ortega's notion that the "psychic" depictions of modern art were only accessible to a gifted minority were extended to incorporate the notion that every individual intellectual activity apprehends reality from a point of view accessible only to itself, his philosophy of "perspectivism" as the synthetic principle which "regulated the world from the point of view of life" becomes intelligible.

Scientism, or scientific materialism, holds that science is the only legitimate way to apprehend reality because the universe is only material.

That is, each individual and each collection of individuals apprehends reality from the point of view of their respective perceptions of reality.

As Russel Kirk explains: "That end, for those who apprehend a reality superior to 'birth, copulation, and death' a reality transcending the rhythms of physical nature is to know God and enjoy Him forever".

On the other hand, I think we sense — but don't care always to apprehend — the reality that some people hate America.

But all of those ideas were really ways of talking about how writing apprehends our reality and our emotions at the same time: the flight of the imagination, the blood of feeling, the book as body, a point of connection between two or more minds.