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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"agnosticism"”.
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Atheism, agnosticism, and nonbelief: a qualitative and quantitative study of type and narrative
… group with no variation such as Atheism or Agnosticism. Through two studies, one qualitative and one quantitative, this study explored identity of Nonbelief. Study one (the qualitative study) discovered th at individuals have shared definitional agreement but use different words to describe …
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"Neither Believer nor Infidel" Dialogic Portraits of Agnostic and Pragmatic Methodologies in Moby-Dick and Clarel
… beneficial. Anticipating the methodologies of agnosticism and pragmatism, Moby-Dick exemplifies an attitude of cheerful agnosticism, whereas Melville’s final major work, Clarel, exemplifies the frustrations of uncertainty. A primarily formal analysis allows scholars to view Melville both …
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The Indistinguishability Between the Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Nature of Things in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
… be the case, and that an epistemological agnosticism concerning this matter is an appropriate philosophical stance to take after acknowledging the three skeptical discoveries in Hegel’s Phenomenology , we are aware that the counterintuitive aspect of such a claim persists, and that merely …
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The role of the Christian church in South African society : with scriptural focus on the care of widows and orphans
… belief. A brief examination of Atheism, Agnosticism, Deism, and Theism is undertaken, and conclusions drawn concerning their attitudes towards the Christian Church. Situational Ethics is the practical outworking of many religious and philosophical views in the 21st century, and is here …
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A 'long defence against the non-existent' : Englishness in the poetry of Phillip Larkin
… faith. Larkin countered the void created by his agnosticism by appealing to the power both of ritual and of the English landscape, and yet ultimately these attempts - although not wholly unsuccessful poetically - appear fruitless philosophically. Larkin's awareness of English society is not …
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Liturgy and death : an examination of the pastoral and theological issues relating to funerals, with special reference to selected funerary rites
… In a society where religious pluralism, agnosticism and non-belief are increasing, funerals are probably the most common occasions upon which people without formal (or informal) religious belief meet the services of the Christian Church. There is a growing call for alternative funeral …
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Learning Clinical Body Composition Metrics from 2D and 3D Optical Imaging
… models that predict body composition with agnosticism towards input scanning devices. 3. Extends the automatic mesh templating method to create the first autoencoded shape model for a pediatric cohort paired with body composition prediction from shape parameters derived with unsupervised …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… family and family rite; mistaking propriety for agnosticism and tacit knowing for unbelief; reliability of the canonical texts; the sages' descendants and classical explicators; tyranny as the sin of parricide: Roman priesthoods with reference to the religious power of women; family religious …
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A Genetic Source-Code Program-Synthesizer for Real-Time Co-Evolution with Humans: Gene-Level Geometric-Push Program-Synthesis
… which can operate with relative language agnosticism, while retaining common coding conventions, indentation, arbitrary code length, looping operators, multiple function definitions and function calls. Using this new algorithm, this thesis explores three diverse experimental phases to …
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Multifidelity Covariance Estimation Three Ways
… desirable properties, including tangent-space agnosticism and affine-invariance. Mahalanobis distance minimization can be carried out using unconstrained gradient-descent methods when a reparametrization in terms of SPD matrix square roots is employed, and we introduce a new Julia package, …
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Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance
… at odds with anarchism. I make use of a ‘radical agnosticism’ (Wilson, 1977) in my practice, privileging subjective experience and critical engagement over the search for an objective truth. I take an autoethnographic approach to this project with a focus on process rather than outcome, with the …
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The Salvation of the Unevangelized: A Comparative Analysis of the views of Clark H. Pinnock and Millard J. Erickson
… inclusivism (by Pinnock) and soteriological agnosticism (by Erickson). Both scholars made significant contributions to this soteriological debate; however, this issue remains complex, challenging, and unresolved. For decades, they employed different approaches and methods with different …
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Emblem of the human spirit: Arthur Schnitzler's <i>Der Geist im Wort und der Geist in der Tat</i>
… to show that it was his very skepticism and agnosticism that enabled him to progress, free of inner encumbrances, to the profound level of contemplation necessary to establish the premise and systematization that <em>GWT</em> really represents.</p>
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Da palavra aos actos : átrio dos gentios : diálogos contemporâneos de uma igreja
… caminhos de uma cristandade propalada e um agnosticismo perene. Aparentemente antagónicos são convergentes em diversos aspetos, podendo e devendo rivalizar para uma vida social mais sadia. Pois, e apesar de ao longo da História muitos muros se terem derrubado nas diferentes áreas das …
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When God Dies: Deconversion from Theism as Analogous to the Experience of Death
<p>In this thesis, I explore the psychological and experiential aspects of the shift from a supernatural theistic worldview (specifically born-again Christianity) to a<br />philosophically naturalistic and atheistic worldview in the context of the religious<br />landscape in the U.S. I posit that …
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Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry
<p>Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry is a comparative study of four poets and factors that affected their lives and livelihood. The term 'blue' refers to the melancholy experienced with depression, frequent or excessive oppressive circumstances, trauma, and the sadness associated with the blues as a …
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Ghostly Sounds and Questions of Belief in Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) share numerous reciprocal echoes in their works, especially at the height of their literary activities in the early twentieth century. Despite their singular admiration for each other and strikingly similar working methods, their mutual …
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The Material Imagination: Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy
This thesis explores the relationship between physicality and imagination in the poetry of Philip Larkin, focusing on different kinds of literal and imaginative space. I adduce two major influences, D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy, who appealed to Larkin as a self-proclaimed ‘materialist’ (Letters …