| 词汇 | example_english_miracle |
| 释义 | Examples of miracleThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Later it became a relic and the cause of various miracles. Imagining the life-span : from premodern miracles to postmodern fantasies. The miracles become fewer later on, where character is fate, and social contexts help determine even destiny's child. He was fascinated by displays of miracles and wonders. Any growth theory we teach our graduate students, and our undergraduates for that matter, must explain growth disasters as well as growth miracles. My reasons for insisting on a distinction between miracles and magic are purely epistemic. Not all miracles however, are part of a magical sequence. Arguably, the divine sanction provided by miracles was especially important to a religion which found itself on the defensive. Far from freedom, what men seek are miracles, mystery, and authority. Necessarily, most miracles are not bad or bodged. Several considerations might be brought against this ' softening ' of the status of miracles. A view of miracles as logically impossible is based on commitments that are both unnecessary and too strong. One might point out also that faith is often mentioned in connection with the biblical miracles. Larmer uses this idea to argue for miracles as special-creation (or annihilation) events. By denying that the universe is a closed system to which conservation laws properly apply, we open the way for miracles. To identify certain events within a religious framework is to identify them as candidate miracles. With one exception, all participants speculated on supersonic miracles that would embarass a space shuttle. We now have the miracles of medical and sc ientif ic technolog ical prog ress. Once one accepted that miracles could, and did, happen, it was crucial to distinguish the truly miraculous from the extraordinary but still naturally explicable. He does this by teasing out the connections between miracles and modal intuitions. How was it decided that miracles happened, and were genuine? Nevertheless, the fact that the imagination has curative power did not, in his view, jeopardize the reality of therapeutic miracles. In sum, considered in the context of science, proposed miracles could be reduced to natural phenomena, but also challenged established knowledge about nature. How does the interpretation of probability matter, to the possibility of indeterministic miracles? What changes do we need to make to our nomic modal commitments to accommodate the logical possibility of miracles ? No one writing in this literature feels inclined to introduce miracles in their descriptions of variation. Even when not directly pitching a product, the media portrays medical miracles while actual results may vary. Although this founder himself was inspired by a vision, confirmatory visions played little or no role in his legitimization, which happened mostly through miracles. The data seemed to suggest that human capital was crucial in achieving economic miracles. Supernatural agents (or their natural proxies) perform miracles, and performances are intentional activities. A neighbouring convent lost a nun of great sanctity, who on her burial began working miracles. Based on the principle that two direct (de visu) agreeing testimonies constitute a probatio plena, the rule applied to proposed miracles. The part about miracles and the comparison with non-theistic creeds has been enhanced and expanded, and a section on ' philosophical religions ' has been added. He makes a further distinction between ' obvious ' and ' inferred ' miracles. On the ' inferred ' variety, he complains about the ' total absence of any pattern in the alleged miracles ' (56). One further limitation to note briefly is the exclusivity of these two general mechanisms for producing miracles. His goal is to show how miracles might be conceived as law-abiding and compatible with a moderate physicalism. There is power, there is wisdom, and there are real miracles, but there is no ' ' order ' ' to it all. Most crucial to her reputation as an avatar-guru are the countless miracles attributed to her. As one would expect, many anecdotes tell of the miracles (karamat) performed and intercessory roles played by the saints. Included under the rubric of "gifts of the holy spirit," for example, are wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and prudence, as well as prophecy and miracles. Intuitively, the following cases seem not to be miracles. Will we be rejecting all intention-based accounts of miracles in favour of a causationbased one in doing do ? In contemporary analytic philosophy most commentators on the miraculous give a central place to supernatural agency when conceptualizing miracles. We have seen already that it is preferable for miracles to be occasional, not performed on all occasions in which there is a need. Celebration of miracles is a natural reaction and is in some contexts appropriate, but it must be done with care and sensitivity. Such miracles may, or may not, involve violations of natural laws. He shows no familiarity with the extensive literature on the problem of miracles, methodological naturalism, and testimony to improbable events. Since 90 percent of all miracles were thaumaturgic, these texts provide a great deal of information concerning pain. Indeed, one of the miracles of the scoring is that her textures can comprise so many instrumental strands without sacrificing a gossamer delicacy. If they did, then they were not miracles. Since miracles serve to confirm heroic virtues, they play, from the strictly juridical point of view, only a complementary role. He treated canonization against the background of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century critique of miracles. Without such testimony, there was no way of factualizing extraordinary events, nor of objectifying them into miracles. As with the deterministic mechanisms for miracles discussed earlier, the loophole opened by a frequentist interpretation of probability is not unbounded. The lesson from these examples is that if you are a supplier of knowledge and reform ideas, you have to look to the medium term and not expect short-term miracles. An assumption of physicalism would beg the question of miracles by denying the existence and/or causal efficacy of the supernatural - something we must surely not pre-judge in this situation. I will also comment on the specific capabilities and limitations of the mechanisms, and what other assumptions or requirements might need to exist for the production of such miracles. Finally, his sanctity was attested by various miracles after his death, some of which are referred to in the antiphons of the office composed in his honour. Strangely, the miracles are given short shrift. In allowing miracles to be logically possible we will have to give up certain important modal claims that we think otherwise should hold : the axioms of necessity and possibility. I will then develop the metaphysical background concerning natural laws and unnatural causes and this will lead me to outline the modalities supported by natural laws if miracles are possible. Assuming belief in the possibility of miracles, the cognitive and moral foundation of canonization lies in testimonies, and in ecclesiastical authorities' and medical experts' trust in witnesses. He might have thereby authorized the extension of "psychological" explanations to the entire domain of the miraculous, and thus potentially endangered the very existence of miracles. Moreover, in the doctor's case, the action of a remedy as instance of grace allowed medicine to retain some of the value it lost with miracles. Is this the stuff of miracles ? Perhaps because he was unable to continue the tradition of miracles for which his father had been known, the number of visitors to the shrine declined. The same holds for non-law-violating miracles. I narrowly favour the first option, allowing good and bad miracles because, were we to have a devilishly-caused natural event, all the same metaphysical and modal problems would be raised. If miracles are hidden from scientific discovery by a methodological presupposition of naturalism, then what further motivation is there to conceal them in the quantum realm or chaotic systems ? In the case of works naturally divisible into subpar ts (collections of stories, lais, or miracles), the subpar ts from which sample fragments were drawn were also chosen at random. Most of these miracles were healings. At the same time, the triumph of the imagination as an explanatory concept signalled a limitation of testimony and the potential breakdown of the medico-legal economy of miracles. With regard to this latter putative possibility, our discussion of the definition of miracles would depend on what we thought was entailed by the divine properties. He takes up the objection in the context of a discussion of epistemic miracles, but the same line of argument would apply to practical miracles of personal protection. If physicalism and this strong causal closure principle are accepted, then supernatural interventions are ruled out tout court, while rejecting physicalism gives miracles metaphysical carte blanche. If all systems and properties of the world had characteristically damped behaviour, then it seems quite unlikely that any of the mechanisms we discussed would be successful in producing miracles. If no event occurring in such a universe could thus (strictly speaking) violate natural laws, then obviously miracles cannot be understood as necessarily violations of them. What we require metaphysically is a theory of the natural world that has room for a certain problem-raising class of miracles, namely those that violate natural laws. The account is sterile and mechanical, and it is based on the hasty generalization regarding what can be known about recipients and nonrecipients of the benefits of miracles. I believe that even with these more liberal assumptions about revelation, however, that the apologetic tradition still makes a very important point about the way in which miracles might function. He allows, however, that given the difficulty of any other plausible account of miracles, his argument will ' pose a challenge for anyone who believes that miracles have occurred ' (54-55). Nevertheless, there is a more subtle way such miracles could be brought about, using the same general schema - just by placing more emphasis on the initial in initial conditions. Accounts of the life and miracles date only from the twelfth century; that they are embroideries is without question, though they may well contain details with a basis in fact. An anthology of miracles, marvels and prodigies. Transparency is a good thing, but it cannot work miracles, especially if it is essentially piecemeal in nature. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Finally, even the performance of spectacular miracles need not cause such interference. To perform miracles for them would only conform to or comply with that desire. The medieval stage employed theatrical illusion to represent biblical miracles. All the miracles occurred after the translation of the relics. He also taught as a sage and performed miracles. The point was to distinguish the preternatural and the supernatural, the wonders (mirabilia) of demons and the miracles (miracula) of saints. Occasional miracles assist us in such a way as to preserve the consistency of our experience and to enable us to develop morally. Instead, some of these cases are thought of as miracles by believers but others are simply ignored. They cannot rely on miracles or special divine interventions. I suggest that one may, without any prior belief in the existence of such supernatural agents, reasonably come to believe that one has witnessed miracles. Should the laws of nature in our universe be fundamentally statistical, there could similarly be miracles which violate no laws of nature in our universe. Rather, the desire is to find an account that satisfies the modal intuition that miracles are logically possible. Where miracles violate laws, it shows that what is naturally impossible may be actual and what is naturally necessary may not be actual. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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