Sentences with phrase «certain spatiotemporal»

If one follows Whitehead here, the most one can say about laws is that (A) no known data indicate that examined instances of contemporary laws constitute the complete class of instances, and that (B) we have reasonable grounds for holding laws to be unrestrictedly universal within a certain spatiotemporal scope (whereas we can, by experimentation, know that accidental universals are closed or subject to exceptions).

Each occasion occupies a certain spatiotemporal region within which it occurs, and it utilizes this region for its own coming into being.

Not exact matches

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

These replaced the traditional elements of space, time, and matter with spatiotemporal volumes (events) having certain characteristics (objects).

Tomas discussed spatiotemporal chaos implying that it's certain to have major effects (or at least I have interpreted him so).

Although the existence of spatiotemporal chaos is more or less certain, it's not certain that it will lead to persistent major effects.