Sentences with phrase «as a continuum of»

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.

But, Whitehead argued, this could not be so, since our knowledge of nature required the uniformity of the spatial - temporal continuum which he characterized as a continuum of overlapping events, some of which were indefinitely large.

«But if you approach infidelity as a continuum of betrayal rather than an either / or proposition, then the Internet era has ratcheted the experience of pornography much closer to adultery than I suspect most porn users would like to admit.»

The Conservatives have, however, attempted to portray him as the continuum of Tony Blair's government.

I think its all a matter of context and seeing reps as a continuum of idfferent adaptions.

RtI should also be viewed as a continuum of services with the goal (using the model below) for all students to be continually moving along the continuum to the right.

These behaviors are described as continua of learning across eight instructional contexts.

She writes: «Our key to successfully meeting Latino students» needs is to conceptualize our efforts as a continuum of interventions rather than discrete interventions.»

One key to successfully meeting Latino students» needs is to conceptualize our efforts as a continuum of interventions rather than discrete interventions; according to the literature, the effect of a single intervention tends to fade in the absence of sustained supportive environments.

Let's look at stress as a continuum of behavior.

The competencies are one component of Ohio's ITECMH program, conceived as a continuum of services and supports, although the primary focus is consultation (Himmeger, 2010).

«Reconceptualizing Marital Status as a Continuum of Social Attachment.»

Not exact matches

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As such, behavioral funds seek to take advantage of pricing anomalies that may exist in the continuum between rational investors and irrational investors by tracking their sentiment and decision - making.

As we keep saying, ICOs have not warped the space - time continuum so as to apply the Securities Act differently than other classes of securitieAs we keep saying, ICOs have not warped the space - time continuum so as to apply the Securities Act differently than other classes of securitieas to apply the Securities Act differently than other classes of securities.

What you fail to realize is that it's a continuum — and anything that can exist as a continuum can be access through small incremental steps from one end to the other until the result is a major change from that of the orginal.

The third instance of vicious spatialization is merely another form of the previous one: the belief that every temporal process consists of a dense succession of durationless instants in the same sense as a geometrical line consists of dense continuum of dimensionless points.

The Bible therefore does not always support speaking in the binary logical system, but also supports a continuum system of logic, as well.

The totality of the past is present, not as a homogeneous bloc, but in the form of qualitative continuum of different degrees of vividness.

There was also no notion of a continuum of s «exual behaviors, (bise «xuality), as science recognizes today.

Nobo, to be sure, does not emphasize the role of the spatio - temporal continuum as a medium for the transmission of physical feelings and conceptual patterns in the same way that I do.

Yet by means of «presentational immediacy» occasions project the concrescence of contemporaries as possible «atomizations of the potential extensive continuum according to available knowledge of their past.

Contrary to the orthodox view that the Resurrection inevitably led to Christ's ascension to transcendent glory, Altizer's radical interpretation of the Resurrection sees it as just another point on the continuum of kenotic Incarnation: the dialectical movement from primordial, transcendent Spirit to radical immanence and flesh.

If we ask how this infinitely divisible continuum comes to be divided precisely as it does so that there is a plenum of occasions, we can not answer in terms of the efficacy of the past.

The first of these is a lectionary based on the church year; the second is lectio continua, by which one reads through entire books in order as written.

But... the infinite regress in question is an example of the «non-vicious» type of regress, since it concerns possibilities, and these not (on one view of potentiality) as a definite multitude, whose number is infinite, but as a continuum, which in the words of Peirce is «beyond all multitude,» as God was formerly described as being; and indeed, as we shall see, the continuum of possibilities is one aspect of God which may be truly so described.

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?

You merely look rather sad and needy when you continue to do something as simple as refusing the reply function to keep the continuum of a conversation going.

But each moment of divine conceptuality can only entertain possibility as a continuum (which is always generic) and can only create one determinate result, a result that includes all the generic aspects of all previously specified determinations by including the determinations themselves, the «abstract is in the concrete, [so] any concrete contains the entire unlimited form» (Divine 144).

The way of distinction, therefore, puts a positive valuation on the time - space continuum and, though it sees divine redemption as the remaking of history into something new, it can not conceive of divine - human interaction in other than historical terms which preserve the qualitative difference between God and man.

For instance, Mays interprets the extensive continuum as a system of logical relations by which we represent nature (PW 103/108, 106/111).

As a result, Mormonism can not be neatly placed in any one of the Catholic - Protestant - Reform categories or along the liberal - conservative - fundamentalist continuum developed to deal with the diversity of normative Christianity.

Other times, as when he argues from the supposed uniformity of our perceptual field to the uniformity of the spatiotemporal continuum, Whitehead begins with direct experience (PW 217-21/240 -45).

And these necessarily presupposed actual regions have actually increased the extent of the extensive continuum, conceiving of that continuum now as the actual set of relationships among actual regions which generates the real potentiality relative to that actual world.

Part of the confusion of Cobb's position stems from the fact that the extensive continuum, conceived of as a set of relations underlying past, present, and future, is part actual and part potential — actual in as far as it is constituted by actual entities enjoying actual relationships legislating what are real potentialities governing the relationships of future occasions; and merely potential in so far as these relationships are viewed as factors determining what forms of definiteness are, and are not, possible as factors in future fact.

It is the reality of what is potential, in its character of a real component of what is actual» (PR 103; italics added), We need now a clearer grasp of the nature of this potentiality and if we really understand what Whitehead means in this last sentence, when he refers to the character of this potentiality as «a real component of what is actual,» then we will understand the nature of the extensive continuum much more clearly.

My argument has presented an analysis of the extensive continuum which clearly makes it true to say that the extensive continuum, as just that set of actual relations among actual occasions which makes the very conception of the continuum as real potentiality intelligible, is indeed actually increased in extent by the concrescence of new occasions.

If only they are indicated, then the coordination of the standpoints as diverse determinations of one extensive continuum might be felt with the feeling of the actual world.

But Whitehead can also speak of tile extensive continuum as having more particular properties that limit it to our own cosmic epoch.

That world is perceived as an extensive continuum of «bare mathematical potentialities» (PR 97).

If we ask what Whitehead seems to say as to the locus of the continuum, that is, whether it is somehow there before actual entities arise, the answer is that he does write in this way.

These occasions are such as to lay necessities upon whatever follows them, and this character of occasions, insofar as it determines that the future will be characterized by extensiveness, is the potentiality that is the extensive continuum.

There is no more reason to suppose that he is being weak - minded on this point than when he denies dimensionality as a necessary characteristic of the extensive continuum.

The extensive continuum is affirmed as the ground of the solidarity of all the relative real potentialities.

The continuum is characterized most basically by extensive connection, and Whitehead defines regions as «the relata which are involved in the scheme of «extensive connection»» (PR 449).

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

Every occasion, as it completes its concrescence, is (1) located in a specific region of the space - time continuum, and (2) is perfectly definite in regard to the inclusion of every eternal object.

Until the middle of the eighth century Israel's future, while uncertain and often highly insecure, could be seen as in continuum with the present, as holding in prospect essentially more of the same.

His spatial field (setting aside «mind» as a special case) is a continuum of overlapping qualities.

In partial defense of this view, Parmenides» student, Zeno, showed that both science and common sense ran into paradoxes when they assumed (as they did at that time) that space and time are made up of elementary units, but still are continua.