Insofar as these dialectics are distorted, history is a compound of the intelligible and the surd." (19) In a more recent work, Doran adds to these elements four created communications of the divine nature corresponding to the four Trinitarian relations, to develop what he calls a "unified field theory" for a systematic theology of history.
That is obviously an ab surd state of affairs, but it is only when rail company executives realise the monstrous error of their ways that we can have any hope of it coming to an end.
For example, Lonergan speaks of a "social surd," (37) while Bhaskar acknowledges the possibility that "the phenomena themselves may be false." (38) Alasdair MacIntyre concisely argues: "Unintelligible actions are failed candidates for the status of intelligible action; and to lump unintelligible actions and intelligible actions together in a single class of actions and then characterise actions in terms of what items of both sets have in common is to make the mistake of ignoring this." (39)
Of course, some of his obser- vat ions were funny -he is an intelligent man with a keen ear for the ab surd -but he chose the wrong platform at the wrong time.
When "s" is either a surd or an imaginary number, the formula x = (-b/2a) + (s/2a) is easier for less capable students to unpack into its rational and irrational parts or its real and imaginary parts.
A good example of such a social surd would be apartheid in South Africa, where people were systematically differentiated not on an intelligible distinction, but on an empirical distinction, the color of their skin.
BLAME and the lure of celebrity cuddle up as peculiar bedfellows,and yet they seemed almost strangely symbiotic during the everab surd Eurovision Song Contest when the British entry by Jemini scored a risible nil points.
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