Sentences with phrase «as a novelty which»

[63] Despite opinion polls indicating a strong Labour lead, opinion polls were then viewed as a novelty which had not proven their worth, and most commentators expected that Churchill's prestige and status as a «war hero» would ensure a comfortable Conservative victory.

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«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

The degree to which an actuality departs from a prior entity is determined by a number of factors, the flux of occurrent sensation, the baseline activity at each phase as it is activated, the decay of prior states and the emergent novelty inherent in the becoming process.

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

Necessarily unintelligible insofar as the very conditions for the production of novelty (viz. disjunctive syntheses of incompossibles) entail that intensive (potential) differences will always already be cancelled within the novel extensities and qualities in which they are actualized --(through the conjunctive syntheses of compossibles; in Whitehead's terms: through a demand for «balanced complexity» — the integration of incompatibilities into realizable contrasts, cf. PR 278).

But if, as Deleuze insists, that factor he calls «difference in itself» creates the requisite conditions for novelty, then the disjunction involved will be a genuinely affirmative synthesis within which «divergence is no longer a principle of exclusion, and disjunction no longer a means of separation.

And, as we have seen, the notion of God arises in «the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss.

In the liturgy as well as in other departments of the Church's life there are regrettable excrescences and an arbitrary desire for novelties which must be repressed courageously and charitably.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

If there be any divine warrant for a church (in this day), there is a divine warrant for a Creed, as a test of union, a bond of fellowship, a fence against error, and a shield against that spirit of restless inspiration, which esteems every novelty an improvement....

With regard to (b): Felt argues that any proposed justification of induction which did not employ a theory of causal efficacy or internal relations would fail because it could not take account of the fact that the future involves genuine novelty and hence can not be presently defined as something already given.

In Process and Reality Alfred North Whitehead dealt extensively with God as an indispensable part of his metaphysical system, as that without which there would be no order or novelty and, hence, no world.

As Rorty has put it more recently, «whatever good the ideas of «objectivity» and transcendence» have done for our culture can be attained equally well by the idea of a community which strives after both intersubjective agreement and novelty — a democratic, progressive, pluralist community of the sort of which Dewey dreamt» (ORT 13).

Furthermore, by its novelty miracle impels a recognition of order, not in the sense of a regular occurrence, but as a given structure or condition which is this rather than that.

The philosophy of organism culminates in a new metaphysical theology.12 In Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal world.

The problem is not the need to explain continuity as explained by determinism, but the need to explain originality which in turn leads to the concept of God as the source of»... the initial aim from which self - causation starts» and evolves into people who are self - creating entities, actively participating in their own creation, capable of creating novelty and assuming responsibility.

Rather, time is produced by the atomic, episodic actualities which together constitute and engender the universe, as it advances into novelty (PR 21 / 31, 65f.

Morgenthau: «The great overriding issue that we must face in our government and that other governments must face as well lies in the discrepancy between our conventional modes of thought and action on the one hand and the unprecedented novelty of the objective conditions under which we live.

His analogy is functionalist: physical inheritance in prehension functions like the general populace which predominates in a tradition - rooted society; the novelty of the conceptual pole of a prehension plays the same role as the originative activities of the «fortunate classes», the middle class entrepreneurs, who predominate in modern society.

But unlike man's experiences which when experienced perish, God's unified feeling is always immediate, never perishing, even as it is always moving forward in a creative advance into novelty.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its waAs we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its waas the process continues on its way.

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

But the greatest significance of Jesus as a teacher does not lie in the novelty of his ideas or even in the new ways in which he felt and expressed old ideas.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

There is in fact nothing more to be said about the novelty of these uniquely occurring occasions than that each occasion is novel, that it happens only once and is unrepeatable in relation to all other occasions to which, as such, it can stand in a real relation of connectedness.

One stroke after the other is enjoyed in a present durée which remembers and anticipates even as it makes its creative contribution; and the novelty of each sound is differentiated and appreciated in a present.

Novelty, freedom, spontaneity are secondary vis - à - vis ongoingness: there has to be novel concrescence in order for there to be freedom, spontaneity or novelty What has to be explained is becoming, which for Whitehead means: «the creative advance of nature» (as he puts it in the earlier works), or «the creative advance into novelty» (as he puts it latNovelty, freedom, spontaneity are secondary vis - à - vis ongoingness: there has to be novel concrescence in order for there to be freedom, spontaneity or novelty What has to be explained is becoming, which for Whitehead means: «the creative advance of nature» (as he puts it in the earlier works), or «the creative advance into novelty» (as he puts it latnovelty What has to be explained is becoming, which for Whitehead means: «the creative advance of nature» (as he puts it in the earlier works), or «the creative advance into novelty» (as he puts it latnovelty» (as he puts it later on).

For the principle of order to which we have alluded is also understood here as the ultimate source of novelty.

They are the avenues by which the principle of order and novelty lays hold of our consciousness so as to move it toward a deeper and more explicit sensitivity to value.

Instead novelty contributes to the «eternal vision» of beauty, the experience of which Whitehead refers to as Peace.

As a result of developments in modern science we are much more aware than our theological predecessors were of the extent to which novelty continually pours into the world process.

And so by special condensations within particular segments of reality the beauty which is reality as a whole comes to expression in particular orderings of novelty that fall within the range of our secondary awareness.

They do not see it as a fixed entity, already made and finished; for them the creation is a directed movement in which novelty occurs, in which the unexpected may and indeed often does happen, and in which great ends are in process of achievement.

The thinkers who adopted this view believed that because novelty is real and inescapable the natural order should be characterized as basically a continuity in which, as we have just seen, genuinely new things emerge.

For Whitehead, the answers to both questions, which I shall consider in turn, are framed in terms of the Psychological Physiology, the main «elements» of which consist of a nonsocial nexus of occasions in the brain (which functions as the body's principal source of creative novelty), the regnant society it supports, and their interactions with other bodily societies and nexuses (WPP 404 - 06).

Perhaps the accent is not so much on creativity being a sufficient condition for novelty, such that every instance of creativity must be novel, as that it is a necessary condition for novelty: There can not be any novelty without the actualization of initial aim in free responsiveness which requires subjectivity as the present instantiation of creativity.

We habitually muddle together this creative advance, which we experience and know as the perpetual transition of nature into novelty, with the single time - series which we naturally employ for measurement.

In modern societies Instinct has given way somewhat to Intellect, which is represented by the middle class, and novelty is no longer viewed as sheer destructive chaos, but as the basis for possible contractual modifications of communal custom.

This is yet another instance of that lazy approach which understands the Second Vatican Council as an absolute novelty, an approach described by Benedict XVI as «a hermeneutic of discontinuity».

For society to advance it must be structured so as to provide a suitable environment for the emergence of novelty which must then be coordinated with the background that gave rise to it.

The result of the doing may emerge as a surprising novelty to the agent — the emergent future may be startlingly novel because the context of present actualization, for unforeseeable reasons, either was devoid of those hindrances which had thwarted or restricted the agent's earlier efforts, or was replete with heretofore unencountered obstacles.

And as everyone knows, the novelty affect which comes with the Premier League for newly promoted sides doesn't tend to last long and so some form and stability is required from Blackpool in quick time if they're to remain competitive in a league where so many newbies have thrived in the opening quarter of the season, with the excitement of the Premier League still fresh in the system, before being hit with a hard reality check and with a fall from grace down the table.

I don't forbid my children from eating anything, but I want them to understand that the former category is a delicious part of life, to be indulged with gusto (though not as the mainstay of your daily diet), while the latter category consists of curious novelties that can be sampled now and then, but which ought to be generally avoided.

McMillan came to national attention as a political novelty for his performance in a 2010 gubernatorial debate, which was subsequently lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

He noted the 2010 debate — which included Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is 2 Damn High Party as well as Kristin Davis, the so - called Manhattan madam, running for governor — featured «novelty» candidates.

He's also endorsing an exploitative voyeurism which began as a more harmless novelty.

«The novelty in 2012 was that the frequency with which people gambled as well as the number of games and quantity of money they gambled decreased,» the report reveals.

«There were some that actually killed the dormant bacteria better than the replicating bacteria, which is a novelty,» he said, «as existing drugs are better at killing replicating bacteria.»