Sentences with phrase «between events in nature»

Not exact matches

Whitehead's endeavors to resolve questions of becoming began with physical nature as a frame of reference and an event as the primary datum in the construction, functioning, and form of nature, with the time factor of space - time constituting one of the major expressions of the relation between events.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

He seems genuinely perplexed by the relation between concrescence and time, venturing only the affirmation that concrescence is not in physical time (PR 283M), the time appropriate to the events of nature, analyzable by physics and chemistry.

Thus, Whitehead's theory of space - time structure represents an interesting intermediary position in the controversy between the positions traditionally labeled «relational» and «absolutist «33 Whitehead's theory is «relational» with regard to the fundamental nature of space - time and is «absolutist» with regard to a structure exhibited within and sustained by the extensional relations of events.

Some attach a special meaning to the word revelation, making a distinction between the revelation of God in everyday events and in nature and special revelation which refers to special acts of God in history.

They are divisions in the passage of nature, and where you draw the boundaries between events seems to me to depend on how you want to describe them, e.g., «What is going on in this discussion.»

Here, in contrast, the externality of nature follows merely from the fact of the relation of extension that holds between events, without there being required the element of judgment.

With Whitehead we can make a formal distinction between two natures or aspects of God's actuality: his primordial nature as the locus of all pure possibilities, which God draws upon in order to provide the initial aims for each emerging event, and his consequent nature as the ultimate recipient of all actuality, which is perfectly experienced and treasured within God.

Conducting research in both Tokyo and Beijing, this project will reconstruct and assess events and incidents from the last 15 years that exemplify the nature of the tensions between the countries.

In echoes of other recent events, there is also need for more transparency about the extent and nature of arrangements made between the biggest beasts in the corporate and public sectoIn echoes of other recent events, there is also need for more transparency about the extent and nature of arrangements made between the biggest beasts in the corporate and public sectoin the corporate and public sector.

Visitors should meet at the nature center, inside the park at Broadway and 246th St.. The event begins at 1 p.m. Kids between the ages of 2 and 10 are invited to participate in a Halloween Fun Run at Van Cortlandt Park this Saturday (Oct. 31).

But a new study in Nature Climate Change predicts that the overall occurrence of these hybridization events between closely related species will actually be relatively low: On average, only 6.4 % of species are expected to come into geographic contact with a hybridization possibility by the end of the century.

The abstract of the paper in Nature reads: «A key event in human evolution is the expansion of modern humans of African origin across Eurasia between 60 and 40 thousand years (kyr) before present (bp), replacing all other forms of hominins1.

For example, in relation to «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner», Benton and Fox (1985) write that it «dramatises the relationship between teller and listener», in that the symbolic nature of events are accessible to most adolescent readers.

Plus, with on - site tennis courts and other sporting options, a nature trail and multiple swimming pools and hot tubs, this gem of a resort in Northwest Florida provides plenty of options to enjoy between events or breakout sessions.

Over a series of events Melia explores how changes in a virtually - inclined world impact on our bodies and the places we live; reflecting on the relationship between physical and social movement, the abstraction of self and the shifting nature of representation.

The study, published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to find correlations between rapid Arctic warming and extreme summer weather events, since previous research had focused on the links between Arctic warming and fall and winter weather patterns.

Due to the personal nature of mobile phones and PDA devices they are often used to store sensitive information which can assist in identifying relationships between individuals and events related to a crime.