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How does this in-ness, this innerness, this interiority of God work?
Tom Honey on God and the tsunami Rev. Tom Honey 2005
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How does this in-ness, this innerness, this interiority of God work?
Tom Honey on God and the tsunami Rev. Tom Honey 2005
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How does this in-ness, this innerness, this interiority of God work?
Tom Honey on God and the tsunami Rev. Tom Honey 2005
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Before Einstein, who asserted the radical inextricability of spacetime from the universe itself; and quantum physicists, who showed that there is no such thing as perfectly empty space; Romantic poets, with their figuration of atmosphere, and Romantic philosophers, with their interest in phenomenology, asserted the radical in-ness of reality.
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Where the experience is not of conflux, it may be of conterminousness (things with but one thing between); or of contiguousness (nothing between); or of likeness; or of nearness; or of simultaneousness; or of in-ness; or of on-ness; or of for-ness; or of simple with-ness; or even of mere and-ness, which last relation would make of however disjointed a world otherwise, at any rate for that occasion a universe 'of discourse.'
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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There are clearly levels of in-ness and out-ness within almost any gay individual's life - especially so for anyone whose family comes from a more conservative culture, but who lives and works far away in the relatively tolerant bubble of New York City.
Jezebel 2009
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I think she herself might have, over the past couple years, been a bit surprised by her in-ness.
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