Sentences with word «atomicity»

Whitehead's doctrine of temporal atomicity allows the two forms of causation to be complementary by assigning them to different phases of an actual occasion.

A preference for atomicity (explanation in terms of amino and nucleic acids) prescribes the method for molecular biology; and a persistent materialism hovers over the essentially anti- mechanistic physics of this century.

It is because the temporal atomicity allows for two kinds of process, the internal process of self - determination called «concresence,» as well as the efficient process of «transition» from occasion to occasion, that there can be freedom in the universe (PR 135).

To ensure atomicity, a single transaction can include multiple actions involving any number of assets and accounts.

Intrinsically prehensions are not atomic and can be divided into other prehensions and combined into other prehensions, yet «a prehension, considered genetically, can never free itself from the incurable atomicity of the actual entity to which it belongs» (PR 360).

Some of these occur in the case of the actual entity where there is an assertion of: the unity of creativity and creature; the concurrence of divisibility and indivisibility; the pervasion of atomicity by nonatomicity; and the conversion of something indeterminate into something determined.

If, however, temporal atomicity requires a lapse of time in order to bring the effect into being, its causes are already past and gone before the effect arises.

In An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge Whitehead wrote: «continuity is derived from events, and atomicity from objects....

Here Whitehead suggests a model that in a way always has been his, especially since the introduction of metaphysical atomicity, but that he never stated as explicitly as he does now: «viewed in abstraction objects are passive, but viewed in conjunction they carry the creativity which drives the world.»

In Adventures of Ideas, however, Whitehead links that ambiguity also to the evolution in contemporary physics, from Clerk - Maxwell's continuity to the later atomicity (185).

This model has different important components: (a) if one sticks to strong atomicity, one has to say that the past is passive; (b) yet, out of a purely passive past, one can not explain the coming into existence of a new subject.

DE: Yes, but by the time they become «actual occasions» they become units, and by that time he has got a kind of atomicity in the passage of nature which he didn't have with events, as events could always be taken as larger or smaller.

This second chapter on the extensive continuum largely trades on the doctrine of temporal atomicity, already developed in Science and the Modern World.

Whitehead's doctrine of the atomicity of occasions of experience raises many problems when it is applied to human mental life.

Increasing «noise» would lead eventually to a general decline in the order of the world, and its replacement with increasing randomness and atomicity, that is, movement in the direction of zero constraint.

This is contrary to the argument for the atomicity of becoming.7

This statement was written some sixteen years after Whitehead had discovered temporal atomicity and developed a thoroughly relational process philosophy on this discovery.

At first glance, this account of the experience of time as the experience of the temporality of the present may look like a «solipsism of the present moment,» especially when we add to this Whitehead's theory of the atomicity of actual occasions with its epochal theory of time.

The uniqueness of Whitehead's philosophy is probably best summarized in terms of the theory of prehension as a combination of the doctrines of temporal atomicity and of the primacy of causal efficacy.

It is by virtue of this temporal atomicity that Whitehead can correlate efficient and final causation.

If it were, the larger concrescence would be divisible into smaller concrescences, contrary to the atomicity of the act of becoming.

The whole problem comes up when Whitehead starts to emphasize more and more the metaphysical necessity of atomicity.

Again and again, we find in Whitehead's later works an ambiguity — or, maybe better, the ambiguity — that permeates the whole of his later philosophy, it seems to me: on the one hand the necessity for real continuity, and on the other hand, the metaphysical necessity of atomicity, which means discontinuity.

that remains the central insight upon which his whole philosophy rests and which Whitehead explicitly wants to make clear, even after the introduction of the theory of atomicity.

One of the most important reasons is that we can deal with all the issues such as integrity, atomicity, authenticity and several others easily.

According to Fromknecht and Osuntokun, the protocol goals are atomicity, avoidance of payment hash reuse, order invariance and non-interactive setup.

These constraints comprise of multisignature, sequence, batching / atomicity, sequence and time bounds.

As claimed, the protocol goals are atomicity, avoidance of payment hash reuse, order invariance and non-interactive setup.