Sentences with phrase «by their inheritance from»

The human mind, in Whitehead's view, is an example of the latter: «There is also an enduring object formed by the inheritance from presiding occasion to presiding occasion» (PR 167).

There is a succession of occasions that are largely informed by their inheritance from the personal past.

Whitehead states that «in an animal body the presiding occasion if there be one, is the final node, or intersection, of a complex structure of many enduring objects» (PR 166f) and that an enduring object is «formed by the inheritance from presiding occasion to presiding occasion» (PR 167).

Not exact matches

«A ruling by a Louisiana appeals court recently stated that the entire death benefit from a single premium annuity plan paid to the beneficiary named in that plan was subject to inheritance tax because it was part of the deceased annuity owner's estate,» says annuities specialist Steven Hart.

Beyond that, workplace bonuses are up, as are expected inheritances across the U.S. Forty percent of U.S. adults expect an inheritance from aging parents in the next decade — if not sooner, a study by Arlington, Va. - based Willis Towers Watson found.

By choosing a low - cost Vanguard Variable Annuity, you can get the most from your inheritance.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.

Our interpretation of the statement that «Life is a passage from physical order to pure mental originality» (PR 164) is that the initiatives within the dominant nexus of occasions are canalized in the supportive nexus by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal mentality may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.

How a philosopher thinks is partly explained by biological inheritance and environmental influence from conception on.

Is it any wonder, then, that Ta - Nehisi Coates promotes a mental redlining that protects the black experience from defilement by the white inheritance?

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.

... Anyone who thinks marriage is something sacred needs to recognize that from the church's perspective all marriages granted by the state for tax and inheritance purposes are just civil unions by another name.

The world may or may not be as tidy as it is often possible to conceive it to be; but it is part, and surely a legitimate part, of our inheritance from the successes of science, quite apart from anything else, that given two otherwise satisfactory interpretations of which one is simpler then that simpler one is preferable even if there is no means of judging — by appeal to evidence, say — that it is not, in respect of its greater simplicity, mere plausible fantasy.

Even if there were similar creation stories by the Egyptians, they could only have gotten the knowledge by inheritance down from the period of Adam & Eve.

Assuming that I make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required by a single experience (and this because my experience includes both the clear, conscious experience of the regnant society and the dim experience of other members of the nonsocial nexus); or, my experience is that of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the other occasions of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes acceptance of a doctrine of regional inclusion.

It is the inheritance of the Platonic position, strongly augmented by Christian philosophy from the Patristic period onward, which in the modern period has continued the acceptance of the identification of «being» and «principles.»

But it is from a myriad of sources, and by a process closer to osmosis than to either inheritance or deliberation, that we learn how to feel and act sexually.

The lesson of the transmutation of causal efficacy into presentational immediacy is that great ends are reached by life in the present; life novel and immediate, but deriving its richness by its full inheritance from the rightly organized animal body.

A. I'll begin by asserting that American society from about 1776 to about WWI was shaped by a mix consisting of a) modernist Lockean / Cartesian principles, and b) various pre-modern inheritances, Christianity particularly.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Rather, what the human soul possesses by virtue of its rich inheritance from the body is the potentiality for learning and using language.

In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade — kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

What is especially troublesome about the relationship between God and Jesus as portrayed by Cobb is that our two different routes of inheritance from them indicate either a conflict between these two figures or redundancy on the part of Cobb.

Indeed, it outranks the possibilities received through all the other routes of inheritance in at least two respects: (1) the particular region to be inhabited by a newly concrescing occasion in a living person and the sort of satisfaction at which it is aimed initially are granted exclusively through the route of inheritance from God (CNT 153f.

It is also presumed that this future is derived from the present by a continuity of inheritance in which this condition is maintained.

Even the morality expressed by so called atheists is a moral compass that is a legacy ingrained into our culture, passed on as an inheritance, from our Judeo - Christian heritage.

Accordingly, the fact that «our dominant inheritance from our immediately past occasion is broken into by innumerable inheritances through other avenues» provides an analogy for understanding both the endurance of a molecule and the fact that it is subject to countless other influences (AI 243).

For both thinkers the physical is characterized by dominant inheritance from the past, the mental by appropriation of the new (above, p. 41).

Genetic identity, which has only a relatively definite meaning, involves (1) some «defining characteristic» reappearing in each member of a sequence or family of occasions; (2) direct inheritance by appreciably positive prehensions of this character from previous members.

Written by Dr. Lennart Cedgård (Wasa Medicals Sweden & AB Atoma) Lactic acid bacteria is an inheritance from the past, 80 % of the immune system is located to the intestines.

Lessen the impact of estate and generation - skipping taxes on a family's inheritance by naming Old Sturbridge Village as the beneficiary, thereby removing the asset from the donor's taxable estate.

Lessen the impact of income estate and generation - skipping taxes on a family's inheritance by naming Old Sturbridge Village as the beneficiary thereby removing the asset from the donor's taxable estate.

(If someone has both very lucky birth and extreme merit, they don't need an inheritance to be wealthy themselves based on merit, so the net benefit to the economy from inheritances received by that person are modest.)

What is the most inspiring book you have ever read?I read Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama, when it was republished in 2004.

It follows research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies making it clear that those who benefit most from cutting inheritance tax are not the working class voters who Nuttall has claimed to champion.

Dudafa, who appeared as Patience's first witness had also claimed that the $ 15.5 m seized from Patience by the EFCC was not proceeds of fraud but, «consisted of her personal inheritance and money which she held in trust for her siblings, as well as gifts from friends and well - wishers over the years.»

Windsor — an 84 - year - old New Yorker who filed the case against the federal government in 2010 after she was forced to pay more than $ 300,000 in taxes on the inheritance from her late wife, Thea Spyer — beamed at the rally and said she was «honored and humbled by the decision.»

Katwala, who has been critical of Brown in recent months, believes that Labour should learn from the Tories, who regained the initiative last autumn by pledging to abolish inheritance tax for all properties worth less than # 1m.

Biological form and function is created from and is passed on to the next generation by genes, which are the primary units of inheritance.

Geneticists speak of «mapping» the human genome, so that we know where genes «for» all kinds of things (from homosexuality to manic depression) are located; a promotional video produced by the Human Genome Project asks viewers to «imagine a map that would lead us to the richest treasure in the world», with which we will know «where... every genetic inheritance of humankind is to be found».

But while the proportion of one's inheritance from parents is fixed by exact necessity, the fraction from grandparents is governed by chance.

«That a genetic property carried by protein shape can be responsible for inheritance from generation to generation or for an infection is a very powerful concept,» Lindquist said.

The notion of family is seminal in human genetics for many reasons: the inheritance and genetic basis of traits is discerned from family patterns; arguments about heritability and nature versus nurture are derived from studies of family relationships; population genetic structure and social diversity are determined by patterns of mate choice; genetic information is typically delivered in the context of families.

75 % of health is supported by nutrition, lifestyle choices and the environment with only 25 % influence from genetic inheritance!

The body's specific gut flora is determined by genetic inheritance, and is passed from mother to newborn during childbirth and in the first few years of life, and — to a lesser extent — from the immediate family as well.

They then fell for the conman's story that he was due to receive a # 100M inheritance from his father but that it was tied up by red tape in India.

Matthew Lopez's new play The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, is on at the Young Vic from March 2 to May 5.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher PaolFrom Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolfrom the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.