Sentences with phrase «at simple notions»

Cartesian rationalism proceeds by discarding complexity in order to arrive at simple notions immediately obvious.

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Interestingly enough, Whitehead arrives at the notion of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness through his reading of Bergson's critique of simple location and the spatialization of things (SMW 50), a critique also familiar to Derrida (MP 37; 227).

In America the search for the simple, whether at Walden Pond for Henry David Thoreau, Yosemite Falls for John Muir, or in the pure gospel for the millions, usually comes down to the notion that with a few clear absolutes in mind, life will hold together and we can outargue other sects and outlast the ayatollahs.

The logic behind the notion was undeniably simple, but at first glance it seemed counterintuitive.

McEwan — doing double duty at the festival with Richard Eyre's film The Children Act — claimed that the notion of a film version was far from his mind while he worked on the original story, but noted that the slimmed - down format of the source made it simpler to adapt than a full - blown novel.

It's hard to understand what exactly is tethering Esti to her obviously miserable life (her romantic connection with Dovid is perfunctory at best) beyond the simple notion of «tradition.»

The community school at IS 218, along with the other nine New York City schools with which the Children's Aid Society has partnered, is based on a simple but powerful notion: Children can succeed academically only when all of their health, nutrition, emotional, and developmental needs are met.

At its core, it is a simple notion, we will combine an elementary school and waterpark into a single facility.

Graham Westmacott, my colleague at PWL Capital, has done some compelling research that suggests the whole notion of moving from an aggressive portfolio to a more conservative one is flawed: in his analysis, even «the best possible glide path strategy offers virtually no improvement» over a simple balanced fund that maintains a constant asset allocation.

Coming back to that notion of simple, addictive fun, this sounds like a title that could well hold up to that ideal and scratch your puzzling itch while you're at it.

At a time when technology makes anything seem possible, the two works by Janine Antoni and David Shrigley counter this notion by providing exacting instructions for folding the «simple» medium of paper that are impossible to realize (though it's fun to try!).

There are other types of objections, but at the bottom they all object to the notion of capturing, describing, characterizing, the complex system of the climate with a simple equation.

The very notion of «sink» starts from d (CO2 in the air) / dt = f anthropic (t)-- sink (t); it is easy to plot sink (t) which, by the way is sink (t) = f anthropic (t)-- d (CO2 in the air) / dt = fanthropic (t)-- k (T (t)- T0)-- fanthropic (t) + CO2anthropic (t) / (lifetime) sink (t) = CO2anthropic (t) / (lifetime)-- k (T (t)- T0) or from figure 17 - B about 24 ppm / 5 --(1.45 + 1.6 AT) ppm = (3.35 — 1.6 AT) ppm or 7.1 Gt - C when the temperature anomaly AT from UAH - MSU is zero Indeed (CO2in the air) = (CO2 anthropic) + (CO2 natural) and d (CO2in the air) / dt = d (CO2 anthropic) / dt + d (CO2 natural) / dt and d (CO2natural (t)-RRB- / dt = k (T (t)- T0) and d (CO2 anthropic (t)-RRB- / dt + (CO2 anthropic (t)-RRB- / lifetime = fanthropic (t) But this simple exercise does not help to solve the constraints set by the delta13C time - series.

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