Sentences with phrase «characterized as a continuum»

But, Whitehead argued, this could not be so, since our knowledge of nature required the uniformity of the spatial - temporal continuum which he characterized as a continuum of overlapping events, some of which were indefinitely large.

Not exact matches

These occasions are such as to lay necessities upon whatever follows them, and this character of occasions, insofar as it determines that the future will be characterized by extensiveness, is the potentiality that is the extensive continuum.

The continuum is characterized most basically by extensive connection, and Whitehead defines regions as «the relata which are involved in the scheme of «extensive connection»» (PR 449).

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

It should be placed on the same continuum as the publicity - driven controversies that we have seen characterize the career of Salman Khan.

Recent studies have characterized this vulnerability on a continuous scale, rather than as distinct categories, suggesting that the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - 5) take into account the underlying continuum of externalizing behaviors.