Sentences with phrase «axioms which»

Each area of law has certain axioms which are true because that area of law holds the axioms are true.

They have nothing to do with statistics or frequency — it does not mean that if you drive past there 100 times, it will be the right street 50 times... Nevertheless this is a workable concept of probability, which satisfies certain axioms which allow for some calculations, Bayesian updating, etc..

CC: In order to get space, he puts in axioms which are essentially Special Relativity axioms for incidence relations about intersections of limits of durations.

Whitehead then adds to each concept a set of axioms which state relationships between the «essential relation» and the primitive entities from which he thereby deduces theorems.

The authentic prolegomenon is not the rational presupposition of another axiom which alone would permit us to say what we want to say.

An old miner's axiom which I just made up posits that where there's Silver there's gold.

When I left a mid-sized firm to set up my own litigation practice three years ago, to describe my approach to civil litigation I used Seneca's famous axiom which frames my business logo — «Truth hates delay».

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It is the sequel to his first book, 2 Billion Under 20, which came out in 2015 and became the # 1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book Awards.

Axiom Zen, which labels itself as an «innovation studio,» is one of a new breed of company, more akin to incubators — organizations that support entrepreneurial ventures as they grow from concept to a going concern — than traditional businesses.

If you don't have a database, but just a list of customers, you can work with a third - party information provider (such as Axiom or Experian) directly or through the ASP to build a profile, which makes the tool more accessible.

Though the check - in slows meetings down — it can take as long as an hour — the process reinforces the company's axiom of making its people feel like ends in themselves, not just means by which the company can make money.

Senior Reporter Mark Calvey ran a brief article on Carrick Capital Partners» Axiom investment, which appeared in the banking section...

Be that as it may, in 1948, in the article Rationalistic Criterion in Metaphysics Hartshorne writes: «The method logically appropriate to this program [i.e. the program of metaphysics] is to experiment with diverse definitions and alternative axioms or postulates, in search of a set — if we are so lucky as to find it — which can be given definite and consistent meaning» (RPM 438).

Scientists who invent new theories usually reject certain epistemological presuppositions which were once regarded as absolute axioms.

I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

Oddly enough, that axiom — which earlier and more Stoic philosophers reckoned absurd and dangerous — encapsulates exactly that dream of another, better and more malleable world which is otherwise called Fairyland.

Its teaching is not, of course, the small sum - total of a few isolated, ready - made propositions which simply stand side by side like the ultimate axioms of geometry.

This axiom itself seems sound because the range of possible actions of which something is capable is truly determined by its nature.

I learned this axiom in the mountains of West Virginia, which are being exploited by corporate strip - mining and by individual entrepreneurs.

Whitehead is able to show that thirteen axioms can be written in terms of this relation that will define Euclidian geometry and thereby shows that this is a «reasonable» relation on which to build a concept of the material world.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

This principle of relativity is the axiom by which the ontological principle is rescued from issuing in an extreme monism.

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(7) The horizons of text and student must mesh: for only so can God's teaching in the text deliver us from the intellectual idolatry which absolutizes the axioms of contemporary culture.

Its definitions have a very existential import; its terms are not conventions, but denote true ideas; its propositions are more than self - consistent — they are true or false; and the axioms in accordance with which the reasoning is conducted correspond to universal properties of space.

But it doesn't follow from this that those terms are contained in that entity as marbles in a box, or as thoughts in a mind, or as theorems in a set of axioms, or as you and I in the universe, or as the properties in the substance of which they are properties.

There is no set, finite or infinite, of well defined axioms from which all the true theorems of arithmetic follow.

The elaboration of theorems by the process of deductive inference — the part of mathematical inquiry that makes it appear as a discipline of necessity — is in reality a means of making good the freedom inherent in the choice of the definitions and axioms in terms of which this elaboration is carried out.

The scholastic axiom rings truer than ever: a cause is ««that which inflows being into something else».

theory of relativity,» for example, uses the speed of light being a constant, faster than which nothing can travel, as a fundamental axiom, and to date nothing has challenged this idea.

In Process and Reality the categoreal obligations perform the function of axioms expressing the necessary conditions for which actual occasions must obtain in order to achieve a fully determinate end as a unit of feeling.

In their grammars, dictionaries, primers, readers and systematic compilations of proverbs, axioms, customs and other ethnographic materials, missionaries furnished the scientific documentation by means of which the.

And until we recover the ancient and deeply Catholic axiom of the primacy of the common good, which is also the primacy of supernaturalized politics and Christianized culture, we can not make much sense out of the narrower Rerum Novarum tradition.

But clearly Whitehead does not take his metaphysical first principles as self - evident axioms from which we deduce experience.

Says Oldham of the meaning of middle axioms, «They are an attempt to define the directions in which, in a particular state of society, Christian faith must express itself.

Hence the Christian insistence that it is God's Spirit which communicates truth is really a way of bringing this axiom into focus by relating this immediate experience of the Ultimate to the doctrine of God.

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem entails that there can not exist any well defined set of axioms from which all the true theorems of arithmetic can be derived.

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

The second shall be a series of axioms, drawn from the Holy Scriptures and arranged in due order, by which that priesthood, which he calls a visible one, shall be fully established.

Among the recurrent themes of Gregory's pastoral book are these four axioms: (1) that each pastoral case requires variable response, (2) that the display of an outstanding virtue may conceal a corresponding vice to which the pastoral counselor must attend, (3) that the pastor's care mirrors Christ's care for us, and (4) that authority in ministry is paradoxically validated only through humble service following the example of Jesus Christ.

While Barth freely makes use of Kantian epistemological concepts, he is never dependent on them for his own theological epistemology, which is rooted not in secular axioms regarding human reason but in theological claims regarding the nature of God and divine action.

A further axiom is formulated which has remained fundamental for modern exegesis since the time of Dibelius and Bultmann: the notion of discontinuity.

This may be the semiotic key to Whitehead's cryptic remark, which he calls an «axiom of empiricism»: that «all knowledge is derived from, and verified by, direct intuitive observation» (AI 177).

By saying this Hartshorne is challenging the fundamental axiom around which Brightman's whole philosophical system revolves.

Ford suggests that the primordial decision which constitutes the realm of eternal objects might be compared to the postulation of a set of axioms.

One of the most important axioms that I have found in Whitehead's thought is that those things which are most clear and distinct are not necessarily the most real.

It is an axiom of organismic cosmology that no one is an island; even in our estrangement from others and from the cosmos (as imagined perhaps along the lines of dualism and cosmic pessimism) we are still being influenced inevitably by the totality of which we are a part.

«1 Perhaps we should say here rather that theism comprises an entire theory of which statements to the effect that God exists are logical consequences of the theory's axioms, given definitions of «God» and «exists».

What one needs is an all - inclusive logic — a «grand logic,» in Peirce's phrase — in which the positive achievements of these various alternative logics can be accommodated without having to pay the high, inflationary prices they usually demand: excessive ontic commitment and involvement, «fuzzy» semantics, excessive and perhaps unsound or at least dubious axioms and rules, and failure to achieve the kind of «maximum logical candor» that should be aimed at.

Therefore, the two fundamental biblical - theological axioms of worship which are basic to worship renewal are rooted in the Christ event which the church, as the unique people of this event, is called to celebrate.