Sentences with phrase «as concrete form»

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He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.

His novel idea was to use two connected pieces of polystyrene as forms for poured concrete.

Architects, contractors, engineers and equipment sellers should all see some uplift, as should makers of infrastructure inputs such as concrete, formed steel and utility poles.

Written feedback should follow the same form as verbal feedback — simple and concise, with concrete examples that shows how the person's actions affect you without accusation.

While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.

This was the need to include aesthetic appreciation as an educational aim, a counterweight to words and numbers in the form of attention to the concrete.

But Scholasticism conceived such, in its universality and its intelligibility, as clear - cut and static, somehow transcending the specific, concrete, dynamic environmental context of the various individual things which it in - forms.

Instead, being pastoral means being the body of Christ in some concrete living form as people turn to the church and its members for assistance and guidance in living their lives.

Aristotle states explicitly that of the many senses of the word, «nature,» the first and most proper is that by which «nature» means that principle that allows an entity, over and above its adventitious processes, itself to grow) 12 «Nature» is entity in the sense of form, with the additional condition that it is now regarded as «in some sense the factor which initiates movement and rest «13 of just those processes that take place within the concrete being itself that «has» the nature.

The persons being formed are fully as concrete, as deeply particularized by history, by social location, by being bodies as is this school.

This could be put in a much more concrete form simply as: «how much is matter and how much is mind?»

But insofar as in this boundary - concept becoming is thought of as lacking all determination (although in the concrete there exists only a determinate becoming), it is, in its relation to form, just as radically to be thought of as potency, as Aristotelian «primary matter.»

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

Only when the passion of Jesus has been consummated in the epiphany of the death of God in the concrete actuality of history does God himself appear in his apocalyptic form as a dying Satan:

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).

We could then ask whether becoming as the fully actual is the only form of being or whether less concrete things are also forms of being.

Only someone who overlooks the fact that this answer itself has a real history which is a history of the reality reflected on as well as of the reflection itself, can think that the Church with its principles, because they too can be given concrete form, is always able to follow directly on the heels of what is new in the changing course of history and that only by its own fault and failure could the Church lag behind events in its theological reflection on morals.

But it makes just as much sense, or more, to say that precisely because becoming is the fully concrete reality, becoming is the primary form of «being,» or that each instance of becoming is «a being.»

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

Hartshorne is willing to begin with the metaphysical reality of God and other selves (not just as a postulate, but as concrete existences), and then to use inference and imagination to provide an account of their nature and relations — an account which can he more or less adequate to its object, given the limitations of our form of consciousness.

The realm of essence is the home of an eternal infinity of qualities and forms which the flux of physical existence (the realm of matter) may or may not actualize from time to time as the character of one of its phases (or which spirit may or may not conceive or imagine from time to time) but there is no dynamism in the realm of essence to determine which shall thus enter the concrete world (see RB 385 - 386).

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.

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.

All that can be attained by aetiological inference of that kind taking as its starting - point concrete reality, in other words the supernatural history of redemption and grace of man as he is, forms the content of the statement.

Thus myth to Frankfort is primarily important as a form of thought rather than as an embodiment of concrete events.

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 houseplants, while divisible, are not nearly as divisible without altering their form (and here form is understood as the concrete, dynamic, and energized entity).

Again this can be put in a much more concrete and accessible form as «Matter is that which is controlled and directed; Mind is that which controls and directs.»

It can be put in a much more concrete form simply as «how much is matter and how much is mind?»

As a therapist Laing concentrates mostly on the social conditions that unquestionably define the concrete form of the conflict in our present culture.

As [this statement occurs] in Greek science, a muddle arises between «forms» and concrete physical things.

In their extreme forms, of pure naturalism and pure salvationism, the two types are violently contrasted; though here as in most other current classifications, the radical extremes are somewhat ideal abstractions, and the concrete human beings whom we oftenest meet are intermediate varieties and mixtures.

Less obvious, but nevertheless crucial, are the paralysis of architecture, the sterility of visual art, and the near absence of any form of creative expression of newer concrete forms, such as motion picture.

As noted above, the concrescing actual entities within a given structured society prehend in different ways a common world, i.e., the concrete interrelatedness of their immediate predecessors together with the common element of form which bound them together as this rather than that society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescencAs noted above, the concrescing actual entities within a given structured society prehend in different ways a common world, i.e., the concrete interrelatedness of their immediate predecessors together with the common element of form which bound them together as this rather than that society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescencas this rather than that society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescence.

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.

On the other hand an occasion, as long as it is not defined simply through qualities or eternal objects, is not to be defined except through its concrete relationships to other occasions with which it forms a nexus in reality.

On the other hand, as a union of eternal objects it is more concrete than any of those eternal objects which form the components of this union.

All process has a final end: the sacred reality as all in all in a wholly concrete form.

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.

Rather, the «above» is primarily in the fact that no culture is able to adequately express the Christian faith, and therefore the concrete forms of Christianity as lived among the various peoples need to be in dialogue and communion with one another.

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?

To repeat briefly: because of God's aim (due to the reversal of poles) being independent of any concrete actual world and so being formally characterizable (in greatly simplified form) as «retaining and integrating all past occasions,» this aim «shifts» with the advance of the world, that is why God's process is everlasting.

Second, Paul's exhortation to a universal brotherhood of believers was meant not only as a recommendation of charity but also as an actual prohibition upon any attempt to give charity concrete form in acts of real social justice, because we have to change hearts before we strike off fetters.

These seem, on the surface, to be forms of foundationalism.16 Whitehead seems to be of two minds about these concepts, usually treating them as abstractions from fully concrete human experience, which includes transmuted contents synthesized from these elements.

Metaphysicians who have taken «development» seriously have either assumed an imposing «form» (the «scheme») as wholly dominant; or they have assumed a «welling up,» an inductive summation of the given Concrete elements.

Anselm's premises (as I revise his procedure) were two: there is a coherent idea of God, as all - surpassing, rivalry - excluding; this idea entails its own actualization, not how, or in what concrete actuality, it is actualized, but that it is somehow actualized, in some concrete form.

No clear notion could be formed of Jesus» death without a concrete life as the context and presupposition for it.

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Martinez rates the player highly as well, and says it is no surprise after his continued fine form at Everton that top clubs are looking at him, though he admits he hadn't heard anything concrete about interest from Serie A.

Giroud — In form (just my opinion) Alexis — out of form (come on, he needs time AND better striker) Cazorla — out of form (ask Wenger) Ramsey — out of form (has to do with frustration coming from upfront, i guess) Wilshere — out of form (we have been waiting so long, Wenger) Arteta — In form (I don't think he was bad as people portray, but against top teams, then we get caught) Gibbs — out of form (the guy is very injury prone) Debuchy — In form (concrete) Koscielny — In form (best defender, no doubt) Chambers — In form (my man) Szczesny — In form (most of the time, looks sharp)