Sentences with phrase «by abstraction from»

Fifth, the abstraction from the concreteness of culture and tradition has been accompanied by an abstraction from the concreteness of social structures and classes and their effects in shaping human life.

Third, there is the representation or sign, perhaps derived by abstraction from the object, in the respect.

Whitehead's approach here is crystallized in his «ontological principle,» that «whatever things there are in any sense of «existence,» are derived by abstraction from actual occasions» (PR 73).

A principle arrived at by abstraction from one order of facts, is confronted with facts from another order of experience, as a test of speculative applicability: «The success of the imaginative experiment is always to be tested by the applicability of its results beyond the restricted locus from which it originated» (PR 5/8).

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Thus, although his starting point in physical nature and individual psychology is nonformal, he makes logical and mathematical departures from this position to explore formal possibilities achieved by abstraction.

Driven by the Spirit far from humanity's caravan routes, you dared to venture into the untouched wilderness; grown weary of abstractions, of attenuations, of the wordiness of social life, you wanted to pit yourself against Reality entire and untamed.

This is true even of Platonism, with its inextirpable dualism, its dialectic of change and the changeless (or of limit and the infinite), and its equation of truth with eidetic abstraction; the world, for all its beauty, is the realm of fallen vision, separated by a great chorismos from the realm of immutable reality.

On this view, the universal principles, which are arrived at by means of abstraction from particulars, retain an intrinsic link with the particulars subsumed under it.

The viability of abstraction as a process that transcends the limits of experiential concreta follows by a transcendental argument from the possibility of communication — to the «conditions under which alone» communication is possible.

In the language of physics, the simplest «physical feelings» are units of energy transference; or, rather, the physicist's idea that energy is transmitted according to quantum conditions is an abstraction from the concrete facts of the universe, which are individual occasions of experience connected by their «physical feelings.»

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

«55 Lowe claims Bergson has nothing like the method of extensive abstraction, which I have suggested earlier is not only false, but chances are Whitehead even took the idea for extensive abstraction from Bergson, apparently both having been «influenced» (in my sense of the term) by one of William James» insights.

As Bultmann uses them, the former refers to an event so far as it is significant for human existence (e.g., the cross as the salvation - occurrence through which I understand myself as judged and forgiven by God), while the latter refers to an event considered in abstraction from such significance (e.g., the cross as an incident in the annals of ancient history).»

Yet, for the past decade; the organized ecumenical movement has been viewed with indifference, if not suspicion, by Christians who have preferred to cultivate their personal spiritual gardens, to pursue various sorts of denominational consolidation and reorganization, or to wrestle with the relation of faith to social issues in abstraction from the struggle for the integrity of the social reality of the church.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

To talk about the «ethical teaching of Jesus» is to talk about something that can only be found by a process of abstraction and deduction from the teaching as a whole.

The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things, as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.

Little wonder that ethics as much as medicine is cursed by abstractions that separate them from the richness of human existence.

«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

Knowledge of the real is not by abstraction of the form from the material substrate, but by the recognition of the true - and also the good, the meaningful and the joyful - embedded and embodied in the material existence.

Now it does seem to me that our immediate awareness of our own self and its experiences shows us that the process of unification is really an abstraction from the acts of unification done by a unified being.

From this analysis emerged Whitehead's own interpretation of philosophy, whose job, as he saw it, was not to continue to carry further the discrimination made by our consciousness, but rather, conversely, Whitehead required that philosophy connects the later abstractions of consciousness with the original totality of experience (PR 14f.

The direct perception whereby the datum in the immediate subject is inherited from the past can thus, under an abstraction, be conceived as the transference of throbs of emotional energy, clothed in the specific forms provided by sensa.

Thus, we may treat the space occupied by occasions in abstraction from the occasions that occupy it, and consider its properties — properties which then also characterize whatever occasions, in fact, occur in our spatial cosmic epoch.

Mass Debater, hawaii, Unfortunately, doing right is an abstraction for many, if not all, but doing right by one another, this is what brings a loving, and peaceful and a prolonged life doing righteously among us all, and until then well, people will endure sufferings from in difference, greed, imposed poverty, sickness, hate, war, perversion, stealing, etc..

Hence, by virtue of this doctrine of physical purpose, Whitehead can maintain that there is mentality in all actual entities and yet agree that this can be ignored without loss when one is concerned with certain abstractions from the full reality of nature.

See Polanyi 1967 and Whitehead 1968: «The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content» (Whitehead 1968, 123).

Whitehead's «method of extensive abstraction» is used not only in his early writings in the philosophy of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract from the complexity of the relations which comprise the datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis of uniformity in nature.21 It is the sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial point for further investigation.

«The poem, if it be a true poem, is a simulacrum of reality — in this sense, at least, it is an «imitation» — by being an experience rather than any mere statement about experience or any mere abstraction from experience» (WWU 194).

[T] he point of the definition [of straight lines by the method of extensive abstraction] is to demonstrate that the extensive continuum, apart from the particular actualities into which it is atomized, includes in its systematic structure the relationships of regions expressed by straight lines.

On the contrary, language presents a distorted picture of reality in which single words, «bounded by full stops, suggest the possibility of complete abstraction from any environment» (MT 66).

Similarly, Voskuil contests Oomen's claim that the unity of God is determined by a single divine aim arising out of the non-temporal valuation of the divine primordial nature: «a constant aim is only an abstraction from actual aims, not an actual aim itself.

Sense data such as the proverbial yellow patch are here seen as abstractions, segregated from a context where a perceived colour is affected by its background, and by contrasts with its surrounding colours.

It is increasingly difficult to assign any actual content to Niebuhr's distinction between intellectual work that is done in theological schools, guided by love of God and attending to its objects in their God - relatedness, and intellectual work that is either not guided by love of God or, when it is, always attends to its object in abstraction from its God - relatedness, as must be done by definition in a secular college or university.

DE: In the earlier books the ontological units were events characterized by objects (though we have seen these events can be abstractions from durations).

However, objects can be valuable only in some relation to subjects, and qualities in abstraction from the things qualified by them are nonexistent.

(4) The arguments were «rationalistic,» with necessary nuances «squeezed out» by «timeless abstractions» which took the traditional Catholic reasoning «far from life.»

His inability to see looting as a consequence of inadequate protection by U.S. forces mirrors Grace's retreat into abstraction; neither recognizes his or her sloganeering as a denial of reality, but the tendency springs from a fundamental self - righteousness.

First Cousin Once Removed benefits from the clarity provided by Honig's published poetry, which surfaces in voiceover narration and words on the screen, rendering the undulations of his life in sweeping abstractions.

Art homework assignment designed to encourage working from observation and then developing towards abstraction and presenting work inspired by Calder's mobiles.

The word author stems from authority, automatically you assume a position by design or abstraction that you should be taken seriously.Stand and deliver show your worth on paper not Just word count, readership is king and platform the altar, minister your product with conviction and the World may become your choir.

- Kirkus «The writing is dreamy and easy to inhabit, but is occasionally undermined by its tendency toward abstraction, when it would benefit more from precise plot development.

The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

Kick and Fennick is the first game developed by a two - man team from the Netherlands known as Jaywalkers Interactive, with help from developer Abstraction Games — the studio responsible for bringing Hotline Miami and Rogue Legacy to PlayStation platforms.

Mondrian: Abstraction in Beauty from Lantana Games is a block breaking puzzler in the vein of Breakout that trades on its diverse art style inspired by the De Stijl movement.

Heroes of Loot... is created by one guy, except for the music, which is done by Gavin Harrison... releases on iOS, Android, Ouya and PC + Mac simultaneously... has 2 - player coop mode added for Ouya and Android Greenthrottle controllers... will come to PS Vita with help from Abstraction games... supports host of controllers and the NVidia Shield... has been 9 months in development..

March 2011 featured many wonderful painting blog posts on diverse topics ranging from hard - edged abstraction to the Danish Golden age of figure painting and by a mix of established art writers and artist bloggers.

It both brought him to the attention of a wider public at a time when Abstract Expressionism still held sway in the eyes of the New York art world, and it documented, step - by - step, his transition from abstraction to figuration.