When scientists forget or fail to learn that science itself is a symbol system, based upon a reimagination of the cosmos in the form of theories, models and paradigms, there is the psychological danger of becoming scientific literalists who take the symbol or metaphor to be reality in itself. ... The sterilization of symbolism in science results in a meager envisioning of reality that materializes whatever contemporary physics says is nonmaterial. Tillich said that if,a religious symbol does not suggest its own incompleteness and inadequacy in presenting its referent, then it becomes idol...

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These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... The symbolism and representations, having to do with religion, that illuminate the flaws of human kind justifiably make this novel an allegory. ...

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Stanton has used a number of devices to convey the warnings to the audience, including use of a futuristic, familiar, harsh dystopian setting, subtle symbolism, juxtaposition and clever characterization reversals. ... Wall-E is programmed to compact and pile waste, yet he seeks to establish his own self-identity by collecting waste remnants, sentimental symbols of previous cultural generations. ... Thankfully, Stanton provides us with a plant placed inside Eve- a symbol for hope and new life. ...

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Stanton has used a number of devices to convey the warnings to the audience, including use of a futuristic, familiar, harsh dystopian setting, subtle symbolism, juxtaposition and clever characterization reversals. ... Wall-E is programmed to compact and pile waste, yet he seeks to establish his own self-identity by collecting waste remnants, sentimental symbols of previous cultural generations. ... Thankfully, Stanton provides us with a plant placed inside Eve- a symbol for hope and new life. ...

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Critic Aurélie Guillain, Professor of American Literature at University of Toulouse, refers to Aylmer as "becom[ing] gradually convinced that the red mark on his wife's skin is the symbol of the innate depravity of human flesh" (49). ... By including this symbolism, Hawthorne is displaying criticism for the Puritan's belief in total depravity, which stressed the wickedness of human nature, not the embracement of man's imperfect nature. ... Although the birthmark may be perceived as a beautiful feature or as a flaw, this birthmark is a symbol of humanity and all ...

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Shelley utilizes symbolism when Victor visualizes how "life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of life into our dark world" (Shelley 33). The author's reference to "ideal bounds" can be interpreted as symbols of physical chains that restrain and separate life and death. ...

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