Sentences with phrase «about immediacy»

Indeed JP's whole thesis with this blog, from what I can see, is about immediacy.

If it were otherwise, Lord Deben — John Gummer — would not have needed to fib about the immediacy and extent of climate change, and and would not have fibbed about the critics of those policies.

dOCUMENTA (13) is about the immediacy of experience, yet it is replete with mediating texts from the over 500 - page guidebook to the 100 Notes — 100 Thoughts, published as pamphlets in the year leading up to the exhibition and then collected in the Hatje Cantz publication The Book of Books.

His visual language is drawn from a deadpan observation of the world around him... McGlynn's work is... about the immediacy of simply looking at stuff...»

«It's less about the immediacy of current news, and much more about connecting people with the content for which they have a huge passion.»

Jennifer Merin: Katell Quillévéré's compelling and poignant character - driven life and death drama is about the immediacy of organ transplant and its emotional impact on all who are brought together by the random circumstances leading up to and following it.

Unlike most Internet dating services, Crazy Blind Date is about immediacy, not compatibility.

«There's something about the immediacy of acting,» she said in a 2015 interview with Wall Street Journal.

We don't really understand why, but there is something about the immediacy of response in a face - to - face interaction that makes even feeble humour funnier.

Not exact matches

, you can foolishly try to achieve levels of immediacy, proximity and precision that frankly no one really needs or cares about — except maybe a few of your geeky engineers.

One great thing about pay - per - click is the immediacy of it.

A review of Kierkegaard's treatment of the temporal «moment of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple subjective immediacy of psychic life.

Part of the difficulties of Cartesian philosophy, and of any philosophy which accepts [presentational immediacy] as a complete account of perception, is to explain how we know more than this meager fact about the world although our only avenue of direct knowledge limits us to this barren residuum.

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

At all times in Israel people spoke much about evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in God's stead; never, not even in the most deadly act of requital by God, is the bond of immediacy broken.

(a) Hartshorne's objection to my position on truth would be that I assume that there are truths about the past and that truth is real now as involving a relation of correspondence with an object, the past; however, the past on my view is not real now, is not preserved in its full subjective immediacy in the consequent nature of God.

This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm, subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.

All immediacy, in spite of its illusory peace and tranquillity, is dread, and hence, quite consistently, it is dread of nothing; one can not make immediacy so anxious by the most horrifying description of the most dreadful something, as by a crafty, apparently casual half word about an unknown peril which is thrown out with the surely calculated aim of reflection; yea, one can put immediacy most in dread by slyly imputing to it knowledge of the matter referred to.

The soul that was thought about was not the soul that was thinking in its dynamic immediacy, but an objectified, and thereby distanced, entity.

Or maybe Daft Punk are just smarter than we are about music in general, able to recognize beauty and immediacy where others see only bombast.

One obvious puzzle about presentational immediacy has to do with the ambiguous status of the sense - data.

Symbolic reference has its vital importance, because «what we want to know about... chiefly resides in those aspects of the world disclosed in causal efficacy:... what we can distinctly register is chiefly to be found among the percepta in the mode of presentational immediacy» (PR 169).

Far from making them give up, their uncertainty about the future gives them an immediacy to make life now count.

Far from making them give up, their uncertainty about the future gives them an immediacy to make life now count #TheFaultInOurStars

Whitehead argues that if subjectivity is really another way of talking about the felt sense of present immediacy, as opposed to what is past to us, then this is a feature of all events.

This produces something of a dilemma: for unless presentational immediacy and causal efficacy overlap in some way, unless there is a common ground between them, there is no assurance that they are giving information about the same entities and the beneficial effects of their complementary relation would be lost.

It follows «that what we want to know about, from the point of view either of curiosity or of technology, chiefly resides in those aspects of the world disclosed in causal efficacy: but that what we can distinctly register is chiefly to be found among the perception the mode of presentational immediacy» (PR 169 / 257).

Tertullian upheld martyrs, who through the immediacy of their act render superfluous the necessity of repeating and arguing about discipline and order within the ongoing life of the church, since, as he warns the authorities of the state: «Your most refined cruelties are to no purpose.

When everything is about convenience and immediacy, filled with the urge and expectation to share information, what can we learn from traditional spiritual disciplines?

Even the accent of immediacy is in Jesus» words about the coming Messiah, (Matthew 16:27 - 28) and alike in direct statement and in parable his reported teaching shows the influence of the prevalent Jewish apocalypticism.

The extensive continuum as a principle of togetherness of actual entities is given to presentational immediacy which «gives positive information only about the immediate present as defined by itself» (PR 124/189).

Above all, it is possible to exhaust what the gospel has to say by talking about and working for the immediacies, assuming that there is in that gospel nothing more than an imperative for better relations among men, classes, races, and nations, with the building in the not too distant future of a society in which opportunity of fulfillment will be guaranteed to everybody.

And unless our experience of having lived and suffered and enjoyed is somehow salvaged in its immediacy we will probably remain with our anxiety about death.

It is in response to this pessimism about perishing that Whitehead's cosmological speculations turn into theological ones.19 He interprets the religious intuition of divine care as one in which the immediacy of our experience is contained in God's experience without fading, without the loss that we feel in our own temporal perishing.

(96) 18:36 --[In addition to the three main strands of thought about God there is in the Galilean origin of Christianity a strand which] «finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world» (PR 520).

We do need to think more about love, to ponder the beauty and immediacy of God's love for us, to understand that love is literally at the core - the heart - of the Christian life, because God loved us first.

From this base, he can move to a formal definition of the projective properties of straightness and flatness in the derivations of PR IV, 3, apply those notions to the doctrine of strains (PR IV, 4), demonstrating that the shrinking of a set of linear relations into the microcosm of a strain seat does not distort those relations, and hence that the measurement of a strain locus in the presentational immediacy of the measurer says something objective about the contemporaneous world (PR IV, 5).

Brennan's — New Orleans, LA Chef Slade Rushing grew up hunting with his father and brother in southern Mississippi, and still considers the immediacy and intensity of flavor in a meal of fresh game about as good as it gets.

At the moment it is certainly Arsene who is taking all the blame for the lack of football success — my question is — rather than focusing on the immediacy of what happens on the field of play and blaming the players and Arsene — shouldn't we be looking at what goes on in the USA and in the boardroom with the people who control the financial decisions about the investment in our players squad and ask when our major competitors are investing so much — why aren't Arsenal doing the same and investing more in players?

A wonderful Post GN5 about a fabulous season but the detail and the «immediacy» of that season as recounted above is superb, and what a terrific piece of history — enough to make any Gooner drool.

Because of their immediacy, their relative honesty, especially about personal vanities, their family and interests beyond politics.

Something about the way the service works — its immediacy, spontaneity, the ability to broadcast your musings into cyberspace while walking down the street — has charmed people into spilling all manner of thoughts and observations — quotidian, profound, and idiotic — through Twitter messages, or «tweets.»

What do Burberry and Tommy Hilfiger's experiments in «see now, buy now» tell us about how fashion immediacy might evolve in 2017?

But questions he raises about guns and violence, especially in light of the Washington - area sniper case, add an immediacy to questions he asks that we all need to answer.

The immediacy of Nicholson's performance is cancelled out by the distance at which Penn observes him — and just about everything else, for that matter.

Everything that was false about the tsunami sequence in the recent Clint Eastwood film «Hereafter» — the bland overview perspectives, the lack of human immediacy — is corrected, terrifyingly, by the first half - hour of director J.A. Bayona's...

«We've really tried to get the immediacy, as opposed to data sets that take a long time to harvest and then we don't do anything about them - that's been a real shift.

Both its alignment with current content goals and its immediacy in providing insight about student understanding are crucial to helping teacher and student see how to make near - term adjustments so the progression of learning can proceed as it should.

Although still quite softly sprung by F430 standards, there's something palpably correct about its chassis dynamics: the reassuring immediacy of its responses, the fine ride — firm yet unerringly supple — the way it feels lighter than it is and closely - coupled to the road.

It's not always about newer necessarily being better, but how well it suits your road driving style, since the reality is not many owners will spend every weekend (or even every other weekend) at the race track to fully appreciate the immediacy of a dual - clutch transmission.