This view is commonly contrasted with rationalism, which asserts that knowledge may be derived from reason independently of the senses.

Hegel's position is perhaps best illuminated when contrasted against the atomistic and reductionist view of human societies and social activities self-defining on an ad hoc basis through the sum of dozens of interactions.

Irenaeus contrasted their doctrine with the view that the Fall was a step in the wrong direction by Adam, with whom, Irenaeus believed, his descendants had some solidarity or identity.

This point of view on the nature of God may be described by a term often contrasted with " mysticism ," namely anthropomorphism.

This view still might be contrasted with deep ecology, which holds that an intrinsic value is attached to all forms of life and nature, whether currently assumed to be sentient or not.

This view is contrasted by moral universalism, which argues that, even though people disagree, and some may even be unpersuadable ( e. g. someone who is closed-minded ), there is still a meaningful sense in which an action may be more ' moral ' than another ; that is, they believe there are objective standards of evaluation that seem worth calling ' moral facts ' - regardless of whether they are universally accepted.

This view is contrasted with non-essentialism, which states that, for any given kind of entity, there are no specific traits which entities of that kind must possess.

The bucolic Vermont town of Mandrake Falls, home of Longfellow Deeds, is now considered an archetype of small town America with Kelland creating a type of " cracker-barrel " view of rural values contrasted with that of sophisticated " city folk ".

The reunion led to a live LP and DVD on Morrissey's Attack label, and a film, New York Doll, showing Kane's point of view of the genesis of the reunion contrasted against the backdrop of his conversion to Mormonism.

Abraham's willingness to give up his own son Isaac is seen, in this view, as foreshadowing the willingness of God the Father to sacrifice his Son ; also contrasted is Isaac's submission in the whole ordeal with Christ's, the two choosing to lay down their own lives in order for the will of God to be accomplished, as no struggle is mentioned in the Genesis account.

Braid summarized and contrasted his own view with the other views prevailing at that time.

Nonaka's view may be contrasted with Polanyi's original view of ' tacit knowing ', Polanyi believed that while such declarative knowledge may be needed for the acquisition of skills, the argument goes, it no longer becomes necessary for the practice of those skills once the novice becomes an expert in exercising them, and indeed it does seem to be the case that, as Polanyi argued, when we acquire a skill, we acquire a corresponding understanding that defies articulation

Throughout Chinese political and intellectual history, the Confucian view on law was frequently contrasted in discourse and practice with Chinese Legalist philosophy.

Legal formalism can be contrasted to legal instrumentalism, a view associated with American legal realism.

These transitions provide an interesting and important view into shock therapy and its consequences, especially when contrasted with China, which began a gradualist transition ( the opposite of the shock therapy approach ) in 1978 under Deng Xiaoping.

During the debate, Baroness Scotland's view in 2005 that a higher threshold to establish " probable cause " was required by the UK to extradite from the US than vice versa was contrasted by Clegg to comments which the Prime Minister had made in July 2006, in which he stated that the evidential burdens on the two countries were the same.

Dalby received praise from Booklist for the manner in which she uses stream-of-consciousness to create a work in which the eastern concept of time is contrasted with the western ; her ability to see with an anthropologist's eye and yet to bring an imaginative and creative view to this work ; and in particular to bring together the various places she has lived, from Kyoto, where she was the first western woman to become a geisha in the 1970s, to northern California where she currently lives.

The false-consensus effect can be contrasted with pluralistic ignorance, an error in which people privately disapprove but publicly support what seems to be the majority view ( regarding a norm or belief ), when the majority in fact shares their ( private ) disapproval.

This is contrasted with the view that there is a perennial distinction between the soul and the divinity.

According to American politologist Jerry F. Hough, his appointment and policies were evidence of Russification, a program requested by Lenin himself ; Rakovsky's view contrasted with that supported by Stalin, who, at the time, was calling for increased Ukrainianization.

( Hegel ’ s view is in this way contrasted with Kant ’ s noumenon, the unknowable “ thing in itself ”: Being-in-itself taken in isolation from Being-for-Other is nothing but an empty abstraction and to ask “ what it is ” is to ask a question made impossible to answer.

Limited atonement is contrasted with the view popularly termed hypothetical universalism or unlimited atonement, which is advocated by Arminian, Methodist, Lutheran, Messianic Jewish, and Roman Catholic theologians ( among others ) and which says Christ's work makes redemption possible for all but certain for none.

Among the intelligence-reports he produced for the War Office was a study of Hitler's intentions in the east in May 1941, which contrasted with the Foreign Office view that the Germans were just " building up pressure the U. S. S. R. to extract more raw materials ".

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

Oxford, realizing that the law required the issuance of the writ, took the opposite view, for which the Queen never forgave him.

Richards' view of the aesthetic experience might constitute a sixth variety: for him it constitutes, in part, the organization of impulses.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

It could go either way, since the gains for both points of view were about the same.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

In view of the acceptance accorded the status of motor vehicles for tax purposes, in the absence of any specific provision it would seem entirely consistent to apply the same interpretation to boats or aircraft.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

and we think them largely futile because, for true excellence of accomplishment, every scholar and every artist must cross boundaries of knowledge and boundaries of points of view.

The president who appoints strong men who have an all-college or university point of view and a talent and respect for administration can count on useful assistance.

We should spread the view that planning and national development are serious matters which call for effort as well as enthusiasm.

On the other hand, the women class members appeared to reach a far greater understanding than have women members in other sections that it is more natural for males as a group to view sex as sex rather than always associating it with love as most women seem to do.

There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.

Only the Federal government is likely to be able to take a long-run and nation-wide view and to pay for training to meet national skilled manpower needs.

If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.