Sentences with phrase «as abstract forms»

His designs for the book treat letters almost as abstract forms at some points, elsewhere as fragments of cityscape and as exploded bits of text.

Still, many of the parts, if they were to be seen in isolation, would appear not as representational but as abstract forms.

Shapiro is mostly known for his works in bronze of linked cuboidal shapes, which read as abstract forms that play off of a likeness to the human figure.

They start as abstract forms and it becomes this intuitive, primitive, dance — a dance in the dark,» Jules De Balincourt tells me in a warm office at the back of Victoria Miro Gallery in Mayfair.

Exploring dance as an abstract form, the program takes its title from a 1961 film by dancer and choreographer Sybil Shearer (b. 1912, d. 2005) and filmmaker Helen Morrison (b. 1901, d. 1984), which documents Shearer's dance company in a performance that escalates from the mundane world to the abstract and spiritual.

Responding to citizenship by representing individual narratives as well as abstracted forms, the works communicate an archive of feelings and memories.

Beginning his photographic career in the 1930's as a social documentarian with the New York Photo League, he ultimately radicalized the medium by emphasizing the photograph as an abstract form of expression and an aesthetic end in itself.

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A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

Because every occasion must include some very general and abstract eternal objects as forms of definiteness (i.e., spatial, temporal, «epochal» ones) as well as less pervasive forms, no occasion is constituted as a heap of unileveled components, one as important or unimportant as another.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

Once God has died in Christ to his transcendent epiphany, that epiphany must inevitably recede into an abstract and alien form, eventually becoming the full embodiment of every alien other, and thence appearing to consciousness as the ultimate source of all repression.

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 abstract nature for most process theists is the primordial nature, but here God's nature is described as also containing «the world as qualified by the forms.»

Since there are no eternal objects or pre-existing forms in Hartshorne's view, the function of the abstract pole of God can not be solely one of the valuation of such entities as it is for Whitehead.

Then a theological passage, «Eternal objects, as in God's primordial nature, constitute the Platonic world of ideas» (PR 73), is translated: God's primordial nature is an abstract structure of mathematical Platonic forms (PW 59/56).

His solution was the disengaged form, but with that the form of the object becomes abstract — not in the sense that it is grasped as an abstract essence but insofar as it no longer remains the form of that individual — and this is the problem that Whitehead saw and tried to solve.

Conscious perception, as he sees it, is a complex prehension integrating the prehension of another concrete actual entity, or physical prehension, and prehension of an abstract form, which he calls conceptual prehension.

Later in chapter five, statements about variables and numbers, such as algebraic equations, are called algebraic forms, which Whitehead does not define because «the conception of form is so general that it is difficult to characterize it in abstract terms» (TM 45).

As being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hithertAs being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hithertas an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hitherto.

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

Thus Hegel, even as Blake, correlates and integrates the death of God and apocalypse, for the French Revolution is the historical advent and embodiment of the death of God, yet this is the death of a wholly abstract and alien form or manifestation of God, an epiphany or realization of God which does not occur or become real until and the full and final birth of the modern world.

Averroës proposed to correct Avicenna in two ways: first, that the essence of corporeal form lies in indeterminate dimensions, thus asserting the priority of spatiality in the abstract over the particular incidental form of a body, its so - called determinate dimensions; second, a characterization of corporeal form as «merely the capacity of prime matter for natural motion and as merely the tendency to move to its natural place» (CM 40), a harbinger of the formalities of dynamics to come.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.

I take it for granted that this company of readers insists on the distinction, drawn in one form or another, between abstract features or aspects of immediate awareness and mediated cognition as necessary to describe the character of experience.

Although drawing on this Tradition, as well as on the Hindu advaita - vedanta and the Buddhist pratityasamutpada (the interrelatedness of all beings), he eventually comes up with an abstract form of «Trinity» as a figure — a unity in triple diversity, but detached from the economic manifestation of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

That the concept of the concrete calls for that of the abstract becomes clear in the concept of the subjective form of an occasion as the concrete, unique, and unrepeatable relation to what was already given.

These forms or constructs may appear as sense or sensation such as «green» abstracted from our experience of «becoming greened.

I want to argue for the advantages of his dualism of eternal objects and actual entities over Hartshorne's monism of concrete actual entities containing the universal forms as abstract parts.

He gives the impression that society has become so abstract that even events and activities that we take as quite «normal» are simply another form of the illusory nature of our culture.

According to Hartshorne, the categories form pairs of logical opposites with the «r - term» or category involving relativity or dependence always including as a more abstract part of itself its corresponding «a-term» or category involving absoluteness or independence.

As soon as they can think in more abstract terms and make distinctions between literary forms, this percentage goes down to about 30 to 35 percenAs soon as they can think in more abstract terms and make distinctions between literary forms, this percentage goes down to about 30 to 35 percenas they can think in more abstract terms and make distinctions between literary forms, this percentage goes down to about 30 to 35 percent.

Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.

«9 Correlatively, Smith observes the word «religions» (plural form) comes into use only as one «contemplates from the outside, and abstracts, depersonalizes, and reifies the various systems of other people of which one does not oneself see the meaning or appreciate the point, let alone accept the validity.

For if we, the teachers, can't fit the forcibly divorced domains of real fact / imaginary value, actual causes / fanciful ideals, feeling / form, concrete / abstract, together, how do we expect our students, shuttled between worlds without transition as they flow between classrooms through school corridors, to do the job?

There are theological as well as psychological reasons for denying to the idea - forming, abstracting, comparing and critical work of the mind the kind of superiority to physical action, imagination, emotion and unconscious operation that is often claimed for it.

[8] «The abstract category «labour,» «labour as such,» labour sans phrase, the point of departure of modern economics, thus becomes a practical fact only there [in the USA as the most modern form of bourgeois society].»

Subplate neurons form the first connections in the developing cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

Twentieth - century painters have experimented not only with abstract forms but with abstract substances as well.

During development, subplate neurons are among the first neurons to form in the cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

It's the difference between writing «We further showed that X is dependent on Y» and writing «Paramagnetic bipolar tolography revealed that X was dependent on Y.» This section should form the bulk of the abstract, so cram as many key words as possible in there, as the five or so key words that journals allow you to specify as such will soon get used up.

A long debate has existed in psychology whether concepts, such as a dog, are represented in the mind as a collection of specific dogs that people have encountered or whether individuals can abstract the key characteristics across specific examples to form a generalized idea, or prototype, of a dog.

Paul Liebrandt approaches cuisine as an art form, and has made a name for himself with his bold combinations of ingredients (one of his more outré creations features eel, violets and chocolate) and presentation which resembles abstract expressionism more than the way your mother put food on a plate.

In complete or combination form, Eleanor Rigby abstracts the love story it's ostensibly eulogizing; it's surprising to learn that Conor and Eleanor have been together for seven years, as the flashbacks — including a rather lovely scene of the two dancing in car headlights to OMD's «So In Love,» like models in a Levi's commercial — suggest a never - ending honeymoon.

They've either grown more allegory - friendly or abstract (as in Fernando Mereilles's adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel Blindness or M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening) or into some souped - up form of undead rabies (as in 28 Days Later or Omega Man remake Blindness).

I am sure I am not alone in that I spend far more time watching abstract films and short experimental videos than I do watching feature films; in part because I make experimental films, and in part because, to my mind, the most risk - taking visual artists don't necessarily work in feature films; but instead work in video art and experimental filmmaking and newly emerging filmic art forms, such as gifs.

The opening images, unexplained and abstract, feel like something from «2001» as a glowing circle travels through the darkness, forming into an eye over the words «Film, film, film.»

The plot points of Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor's adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are complicated and abstract enough to count as an organizational form of iambic pentameter.

Whether it's as direct as a Māori Dennis the Menace — type kid (Julian Dennison) bonding with a reluctant white father (Sam Neill) in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) or as abstract as the outsider experience of Wellington's long - standing vampire society delineated in What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Waititi's movies exist at the nexus of native and colonizer cultures, the dichotomy that forms the basis of modern postcolonial theory.

The main benefits of Talk a Lot are: • Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way • Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract and unrelated grammar lessons • Students learn how to construct eight different common verb forms, using positive, negative and question forms, as well as embedded grammar appropriate to their level.