Sentences with phrase «as inert»

A switch from viewing the planet as an inert thing — which can be traded, damaged and which has no legal voice in itself — to one that is a living entity.

Some of the carbon from plant matter remains in the soil as inert carbon, especially over geological time.

Dupont produced CFCs originally as an inert, safe, replacement mostly for ammonia in refrigeration equipment.

Last week at a press conference, we sat apprehensively beside a piece of shiny, lava - like stone wondering if it really was as inert as the company investors and president claimed.

Because they lacked the ability to understand the intended significance of various facial expressions and / or gestures, their experience of his speech was divorced from his image, rendering it as inert and senseless as the printed word.

Madison has a continued interest in artwork's self - sufficiency: rather than functioning as an inert image the work becomes an event that is impossible without the viewers» collaboration.

For him, silence was a landscape of unintentional sounds experienced between intentional sounds; as such, it was absolutely substantive, inseparable from and interdependent with sound.22 By extension, we might expand our view of the White Paintings, considering them not as inert screens waiting to be activated by life's subtle projections but rather as provocative agents of activity and profoundly physical objects that link our actions and perceptions, making us aware of the same perceptual interdependency that was central to silence for Cage.

Given their airbrushed surfaces, describing the paintings as inert gives them too much oomph.

Certain flea dips, as well as inert ingredients in pesticides and insecticides could also be factors involved with an increased risk of bladder cancer.

But carbon dioxide (CO2) is a larger molecule (will leak slower from the tire), as well as inert (will not oxidize rim and will...

The other two girls are almost as inert, but have lesser to do.

Nostalgia is the chief ingredient of this soap opera, which is as inert, slow, and quiet as any comedy in recent memory.

Their «Rampage,» only loosely based on the games, ends up every bit as inert and hardly more fun, failing to capture more than an iota of the colorful fun of its source material.

Results like these belie the moon's image as an inert rock, Colaprete says.

In lab experiments, they demonstrated that collagen, once viewed as inert, forms structures that regulate how certain enzymes break down and remodel body tissue.

It is possible, Farmer says, that Martian microbes could spend most of their time as inert spores «waiting for something good to happen,» only springing to life given the right and very rare conditions.

If Toby Pereira thinks xenon and argon are used by athletes as inert gases to simulate altitude training, he might...

And researchers have long known that, despite its reputation as an inert metal, gold nanoparticles can work as a catalyst to speed chemical reaction.

«Most of us look at our guts and our hips and our love handles and think of fat as an inert substance that merely collects and hangs off of us,» he says.

We were able to demonstrate that metal - organic frameworks can be highly conductive, challenging the common concept of these materials as inert electro - catalysts.»

The skeleton is often seen as an inert tissue, but this perception is quite wrong.

Islam itself usually figures as an inert, exotic monolith, handy for weighty invocations and pretty embroidery.

Newtonian physics placed this metaphysical view into question when it regarded nature as inert mass, i.e., dead matter, moved from without by efficient causality.

His story «The Gold - Crowned Jesus» portrays Christ as an inert figure of gold imprisoned in concrete by his political and religious oppressors.

We think of nature as inert stuff without any life of its own; we approach it merely as a tool to achieve human ends.

Nonsynthetic materials may also be used as inerts so long as they are not specifically prohibited.

(i) Substances permitted for use as inerts in minimal risk products exempt from pesticide registration under FIFRA section 25 (b).

Section 6517 (c)(1)(b)(ii) of OFPA provides an exemption for materials otherwise prohibited in organic agriculture to be used as inerts, so long as they are not classified by the EPA as «inerts of toxicological concern.»

Not exact matches

The actual texts — that long list of «greats» — lie there inert and ready to be picked up, as Lee Siegel implies young people will be inclined to do.

IndieWire calls it «Malick's most accessible work in years» while the Hollywood Reporter pans it as «inert» and «enervating.»

Indeed the metaphysical opposition of mind and inert, inanimate thing - as - object itself thereby collapses.

Newton saw the world as a marvelous, inert machine, made up of isolated substances that followed the model of a clock.

If the human mind is the sole reality, and the so - called physical world unreal, an inert, lifeless machine, it is easy to see how the barking and writhing would not be seen as manifestations and responses to pain.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

(2) Substance is therefore rightly thought of as both static and passive, hence as lending itself immediately to the notion of an inert stuff or matter.

The object exerts its causal influence not by acting upon the subject, but solely as being inert, stubborn fact exacting conformity.

Second, epistemologically speaking, Bergson means by «matter» the way in which the intellect approaches all things (whether vital or inert) as if they were simply the sums of their parts — parts that are subject to being disassembled and re-assembled in any order whatsoever to serve the abstract ends of the intellect itself or the purposes of the organism that intellect serves.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

In Descartes» day, nature was held to be composed of inert stuff with force viewed as something external to that stuff, something mechanically applied to dead bits of matter from the outside.

I take it as granted on all sides that while the arrow is a man «made object and thus irreducibly complex, Thomas is focusing not on its manufacture but on its motion as an otherwise inert object.

These entities, he tells us, must be thought of as happenings, occurrences, or occasions rather than as lumps of inert matter.

Culminating in the philosophy of Descartes and his philosophical descendants, even today, such a dualism accents the primacy of the human mind, viewing everything outside it as lifeless and inert.

The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things, as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

Despite having a life of its own, the church takes on the life of its people, becoming them even in the inert substance of its construction: «And its walls shall be hard as!

Thus in the modern conception, the physical existent as «matter» was in itself completely devoid of activity or agency — it was strictly «inert,» as Kepler was the first to characterize it; it was «movable» but could not move itself, as Newton insisted.

The being [Sein] of a natural entity points, as such, to other actual entities causally efficacious within it, since what it is, is just this process grounded in others and not an inert matter within which process takes place.

In addition if substance X incorporates substance Y, then Y must cease to exist as Y Material substances, according to Descartes, are inert, lacking all subjectivity.

Finding in its plot the negotiation of Christ and Eros in spaces heretofore considered inert and at times of its common life regarded as incidental or profane, Wiltshire Church could begin to appreciate its implication within the working of all social space and time.

Behind the best of our languages they find, as Tocqueville did, relatively inert traditions that all five authors presumably wish were more active: biblical thought and imagery, and republican discourse and institutions.