Sentences with phrase «at finite»

* Self - control studies look at the finite ability of individuals to overcome urges and make decisions.

Then, specific forms of influence functionals representing the effect of definite and random classical forces, linear dissipative systems at finite temperatures, and combinations of these are analyzed in detail.

Fix that radius at a finite value and determine the steady - state surface temperature.

1) tails converge roughly like a normal (e.g. exponentially decreasing) 2) tails go to zero at some finite value 3) tails converge as a power law (thick tails) 4) pathological behavior, such as bimodality, non-stationarity, etc..

But, she excelled at finite math.

At Finite, we strive to create individually designed book interiors.

Without taking particular care of the chemical potential in the nanowire, we observe supercurrent oscillations at finite magnetic field.

Because light moves at finite speed, looking farther into the universe means looking back in time.

So when Helmholtz recognized that thought moves at a finite rate, faster than a bird but slower than sound, he missed a fundamental difference between the brain and a telegraph.

One procedure physicists are fond of is to draw a cut - off at some finite time, count up the number of events — say, heads and tails — that occur in the multiverse before the cut - off time, and use that as a representative sample.

Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time using general relativity yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past.

Cosmology is similar: Because light travels at a finite speed, looking at distant light sources is literally looking back in time.

Light moves at a finite speed (299,792 kilometers per second, to be precise), so the journey from star to star is a very long one even...

See, for example, Christian («God aims not at some finite objective but at the realization of all possibilities whatever» [LWM 297Th Ford («Whitehead's Conception of Divine Spatiality, Southern Journal of Philosophy 6 [1968], 10, and BW 66); and Nobo (GEI 179).

Meanwhile, at the finite and imperfect level at which life is lived, tensions remain.

Shielded neither by statistical and programmatic facades of self - description nor by normative proclamations about what the church should be, we look at our finite, culture - bound symbolisms and find in them our idiomatic expression, but also structures wrought by the imaginative labor of all humanity.

To fully generalize the foregoing view, even the laws of nature, so far as contingent, are to be attributed to divine decisions made, not in eternity or for all time, but at a finite time in the past.

People have rejected theism because they held untenable the idea of a mind not subject to change or to interaction with other beings, or a mind omnipotent in the sense that its power was all the power in existence, or a mind having precise knowledge of details of the future (or of all times from the standpoint of eternity), or a mind creating a first state of the cosmos at a finite time in the past, or knowing all suffering although it did not itself suffer, or an all - embracing mind which in no sense could be identified with the universe, or one which could in every sense be identified with it.

An atheist may only look at this finite life as all there is.

Not exact matches

At the top of that funnel, some substance is poured in, which filters down towards one finite destination.

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

These are finite subscriptions, like for magazines, that offer an optional re-up period at the end of the contract.

But the schools still have a finite amount of resources and Alabama's vault is smaller than the one at Texas.

It helps them better grasp that there's a finite amount of cash — and that they'll have to put that item back if they don't have enough at the register, Golden said.

Debt is a capital source with a finite life and clearly defined return profile known at the initial investment.

, CEO of SlideMail App, if no finite timeline is defined, you probably won't finish it [the task] at all.

According to Vu Tran, CEO of SlideMail App, if no finite timeline is defined, you probably won't finish it [the task] at all.

Notably, unless we allow for the slope of the current market advance to become quite literally infinite, it's impossible to closely fit the current price advance without setting the «finite - time singularity» — the point at which instability typically emerges — within a few days of the present date.

Trusts enjoy, effectively, indefinite longevity (they have a finite existence, but it can be a good long time) and can have limited liability for benficiaries (but not for trustees) and have legal personality (in the form of the trustee) and yet we permit them to pass income through to their benefiaries to avoid tax at the trust level (so that, for example, most mutual fund trusts in Canada pay no income tax - in fact, if you look at their trust indentures, most of them are required to arrange their affairs so as not to pay tax).

Since there is a limited number of cryptocurrency tokens available at any given time, borrowing more than is available isn't even an option; instead of grabbing a seashell whenever you want to spend or buy more than you can, you're rightfully stuck with your finite number of coconuts.

Hong Kong, for example, is looking at a large potential growth of the technology in their banking and insurance industries but have a finite number of eligible people to allow that growth to happen.

You can only have one HELOC open at a time for a finite amount, so you can't add additional graduate - school student loans onto it later until the HELOC is paid off.

It doesn't matter what investors think, or what the press says, or what happens to a deal at any given finite time.

It could have been set at 21 trillion — the point is that supply is limited and finite.

Finite Universe — zero and one are equal (matter can be infinitely divided into nothing — God is Nothing that created everything out of emptiness) «At the Planck distance and the Planck time all physics, as we know it today collapses.

Because believing in God's ownership takes the burden of control off of our finite understanding and puts God's infinite wisdom at the helm of our financial decisions.

But this is certainly no easy task, at least for a finite mind.

Humanism retains some personal explanations as ultimate (at the level of finite human agency) while leaving some inanimate explanations as ultimate also.

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

15 With all these caveats against unqualified omnipotence being laid down like stepping stones to a new horizon of view, Origen finally arrived at a provocative conclusion: «we must maintain that even the power of God is finite, and we must not, under pretext of praising him, lose sight of his limitations.»

His cry of helplessness, his shattered ruin, grew from the fact that on the cross the annihilating wrath of God and the desperate, finite fury of humankind, which up to now had been directed each against the other, were at last united against this solitary victim.

At all events the physicist and the philosopher have a choice: either the infinite supporting the finite structures of intelligibility is material and hence meaningless or there is a personal Infinite, whose intelligibility surpasses human intelligibility even while supporting its analogous understanding.

In short, what is at stake is the infinite or the finite, and there is no commensurability between the infinite and the finite.

Or someone with finite knowledge looking at isolated events that happened thousands of years ago out of context?

It is not at equilibrium and it appears to have begun a finite time ago.

The problem with the mathematical continuum is that there is no immediate successor to any temporal instant in the continuum; hence, the need for occasions of finite duration, the coming to be of which is at once, indivisible.2

We maintain that the actual occasions coming to be at once are finite, without an internal past, present, or future.

At the level of assumption, the historical consciousness is the awareness that every event or entity (including persons or religious traditions) possesses its own finite, historical context and can be explained exhaustively in terms of that context.

They are: i) revelatory experiences are common to all religions, ii) revelation is received under finite human condition, iii) the three types of criticisms, mystical, prophetic and secular help to address the distortions that crept into revealed religions, iv) History of Religions makes «a concrete theology that has universal significance» possible and v) an acknowledgement that «the sacred is the creative ground and at the same time a critical judgement of the secular».

Let us first see how Whitehead develops this notion for finite actual entities, and then look at the application to God.