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the quality of being incapable of mutation
Darwin challenged the fixity of species
How To Use immutability In A Sentence
- The two mistakes are opposed to one another by reason of the fact that they take opposite stands with regard to the certitude, immutability, and incorrigibility that does or does not belong to knowledge.
- The backdrop of stars was perceived as representing God in its permanence and immutability; only the sublunar sphere encircling the earth was subject to change and decay.
- If it be such a means, then its "efficacy" is established, in the only sense in which we are concerned to contend for it; while it is shown to be _no more inconsistent_ with the immutability of the Divine purposes, than any other system of _means or instruments_ that may be employed as subordinate agencies in the government of the world. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
- What we may recognize as a scientific principle was enunciated via the theological concept of divine immutability.
- What we may recognize as a scientific principle was enunciated via the theological concept of divine immutability.
- Contrasts 8-9, concerning nontemporality and immutability, are also linked by Alston. Charles Hartshorne
- If God is outside time, there may also be a secure foundation explaining God's immutability (changelessness), incorruptibility and immortality. Philosophy of Religion
- At the same time, symbolic associations with the moon-goddesses, Diana, Phoebe and Cynthia, signified both England's sea-power and the Queen's immutability and continuing potency, despite her advancing age.
- Those persons that are devoted to Narayana with their whole souls and are desireless succeed in attaining to the region of that highest of deities, identical with Brahma, pure in complexion, possessed of the effulgence of the moon and endued with immutability. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
- But be forewarned, you're bound to meet some folks in the comments who are living proof that the jury IS still out on that whole "immutability" thing. Balkinization