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the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance
the ultimacy of these social values
How To Use ultimacy In A Sentence
- By appealing to these absolutes, the president has attempted to endow his cause with a kind of ultimacy, in which ‘those who are not for us are against us.’
- I expressed my hope, again, that the plaintiffs would retain legal counsel to assist them on that date in view of the potential ultimacy of the matters to come before me and that this time had been scheduled for a trial.
- But he also warns that we humans are prone to idolatry, taking preliminary concerns that do not ground and determine our being and elevating them to a place of ultimacy in our lives. Todd Green, Ph.D.: Where Is The Courage In College Football?
- the ultimacy of these social values
- Regardless of his dismissive attitude towards worries about manipulation, the notion of ultimacy, and of an argument like the Source Incompatibilist Argument, Compatibilism
- The writer distinguishes two separate motivations for incompatibilism: a worry about alternative possibilities, and a worry about ultimacy.
- But like any other principle claiming ultimacy, it is nothing but a phantasm - a mere assumption, an assertion, a claim - one which reigns supreme simply due to its success in excluding other, competing claims.
- If 'ultimacy' is one resonance of adoring, being bodily is another. Archive 2008-01-01
- But we are talking about hall of fame status here, a generalised ultimacy, and the ability to snake out and randomly thrill even the stoniest heart is a part of that. Barcelona are just as processed as the premier burger on the menu | Barney Ronay
- Is it, in other words, the subjective ultimacy of our concern that determines faith or is it concern for the ‘really’ ultimate-whatever that may mean?