Quotes About Disjunction

yet the world between them was wide.

It is this significant disjunction between the Jesus-as-prophet view and Jesus' disciples' claim that Jesus is the Christ that makes Jesusanity's view of Jesus so difficult to accept historically. But we are jumping ahead.

Man's self-destructiveness and failure to attain a telos that cures dissatisfaction suggest a disjunction in his origins to which, theologically, the name "original sin" is applied.

But after you have been here for a while you realize that inside one country there are two separate worlds.

Meaning was not a pitch but an interval. It sprang from the depth of disjunction, the distance between one circuit's center and the edge of another. Representation caught the sign napping, with its semantic pants down. Sense lay in metaphor's embarrassment at having two takes on the same thing. For the first time, I understand Emerson's saying about the use of life being to learn metonymy. Life *was* metonymy, or at least stood for it.

IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.

there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

An example of this is, when the simple propositions are connected by the particle or; as, either A is B or C is D; or by the particle if; as, A is B if C is D. In the former case, the proposition is called disjunctive, in the latter, conditional: the name hypothetical was originally common to both.

16 But cynicism is always the indication of a mental chaos, or at least a mental disjunction and lack of unity.

if they could only see how impossibly removed the two of them were from any sort of actual power.

In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant.