Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several employees last month presented a list of grievances and announced plans to unionize to Molly Hoagland, the actual manager of the restaurant...
...Ontological Proof. This, the most controversial approach, moves from a mental concept of God to his actual existence. It was originated by Anselm, the 11th century Archbishop of Canterbury who defined God as "a being than which nothing greater can be thought." The Archbishop reasoned that since existence would have to be part of any such perfect and necessary being, this being must actually exist. This is "too good to be true," says one skeptic, and even one of its current defenders admits that it "looks too much like word magic...
...burning wood only changes form), so no God is needed to explain the existence of contingent things. Last May he suddenly changed his mind again after applying the "possible worlds" approach. Adler speculated that the universe is only one of many possible universes, any of which -including this actual universe-can just as easily not exist as exist. The universe is "radically contingent," the only thing capable of not existing and leaving behind absolutely nothing. An "efficient cause" is needed to explain "the actual existence here and now of a merely possible cosmos," something that preserves it in being...
...sensible and calm good guy to viewers. Ronald Reagan had his problems with cool, courteous and well-prepared questioners on Issues and Answers. ABC's John Laurence asked about Reagan's proposal to cut income taxes 30% as Reagan says President John F. Kennedy did, though the actual Kennedy cut was only about...
...atmosphere rather than the actual race that lent a special quality to the oarswomen's season opener...