Sentences with phrase «account of the continuum»

If the nature of horseness is a static constant, as it seems to befor St Thomas and Aristotle, the question arises: can this philosophy really give an adequate account of the continuum of development in life forms that lies at the heart of the theory of evolution?

In your May / June editorial, you question Aristotle's concept of the form's adequacy for giving an account of the continuum of development in life forms that lies at the heart of the theory of evolution.

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If the extensive continuum is part of the real potentiality of the universe, such that Whitehead's general account of real potentiality applies to it without qualification, then Sherburne is correct.

In Process and Reality, Whitehead gave up his account of the spatial - temporal as a continuum of overlapping events in favor of an account of atomic occasions which were distinct and which succeeded one another endlessly.

Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).

Future assessments of carbon storage must now take into account the surface areas of the land - ocean aquatic continuum to ensure accurate estimation of carbon storage.

But it does takes into account some aspects of those proposals, particularly in emphasizing a «continuum of professional learning,» said Peter Shulman, the state assistant education commissioner overseeing teacher quality.

Our entire economy, in India has accounted for a moderate growth of 4.7 % in 2013 - 14 in continuum.

Recent studies have characterized this vulnerability on a continuous scale, rather than as distinct categories, suggesting that the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - 5) take into account the underlying continuum of externalizing behaviors.