Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't used in such an amateurish way. Throughout the novel they interrupt every once in a while to explain the most recent occurrence in the life of Francis Cornish. "If you wish to talk of Chance', said the Daimon Maimas. 'But you and I know how deceptive the concept of Chance--the wholly random, inexplicable happening--is as a final explanation of anything...
Sorry, Shish, but the concept of the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl is about as absurd as the concept of the Atlanta Falcons--or the New Orleans Saints, for that matter--in the playoffs...
...infamous" Strategic Defense Initiative. If so, Shultz did not fare much better with his own allies than he did with the Easterners. The West German government last week agreed to discuss participating in Star Wars research, and hence share in the funding, but pointedly refused to embrace publicly the concept of a space- based missile defense...
...Guide, which has long been the subject of dispute. Alvin Reines, a radical Reform rabbi in the U.S., thinks that Maimonides wrote on two levels, presenting the literal meaning of the Scriptures for the ignorant rabble while holding to a hidden antimiraculous religion in which God was an impersonal concept. Drawing on Maimonides' writings, more conventional scholars hold that the Rambam, though committed to traditional Judaism, sought to harmonize it with philosophy and science...
That blending involved some distinctly modern ideas. Maimonides argued that the biblical account of creation out of nothingness was a more plausible concept than the eternal universe of Aristotle. But he also declared boldly that if his philosophical thinking had substantiated Aristotle's view, he would simply have reinterpreted the Bible accordingly. Maimonides treated the sacrificial rituals commanded by biblical law as accommodations that God made to the Hebrews' pagan background...