Absolutes

Atheists recognize no absolutes except for themselves.

In particular, this has meant the DDF prefect has been less about enforcing doctrinal errors, and more about enhancing “pastoral sensitivity,” downplaying moral absolutes in favor of case-by-case moral evaluations.

The Left does not see such absolutes.

There are few absolutes in football; almost everything is contingent.

And absolutes (e.g., always, never, impossible, everything) are generally not factual.

At the end of the day none of this tech stuff matters nearly as much as a game being good, but people like to argue about absolutes and 60 being bigger than 30 is an absolute.

Jimmy, 52, took a whiff of the candle made with geranium, citrusy bergamot and cedar absolutes mixed with Damask rose and ambrette seed.

Yet the ad’s necessity highlights Biden’s tightrope as he discusses the complexities of the moment while running against a president whose brief political career — and his business career before that — has been defined by loud absolutes.

And we’re in a political crisis, as more and more of our discussions take place in a place of absolutes.

The law was written to prevent goal hanging, but itтАЩs essentially written in terms of absolutes.

But Gilbert, in his customary topsy-turvy fashion, turns the moral absolutes of melodrama upside down: The hero becomes evil, the villain becomes good, and the virtuous maiden changes fiancés at the drop of a hat.

Dewey placed so called pragmatism above moral absolutes and helped give rise to situational ethics.

Even in his death, Duchamp retained a sense of humor (a means for him of reaffirming his freedom, while undermining absolutes and certainties).

Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes..

If it is relative, then this statement does not rule out absolutes.

In this way, Dupuis tries to lead the discussion away from dealing in absolutes.

Rather, the use of the comparative method provides a scientific means of discovering such absolutes.

While breeding a healthy scepticism as to the eternity of any value prized by a particular people, anthropology does not as a matter of theory deny the existence of moral absolutes.