Sentences with phrase «common notions of space»

Through basic elements such as pixels and binary code, the artist builds large - scale sculptural installations that defy predictability, and ultimately grow into complex forms that question common notions of space and time.

On both formal and conceptual levels, the artist and filmmaker challenges common notions of space and boundary, weaving together archival material, scripted text and hypothetical circumstances to chronicle the political narratives of our day.

Not exact matches

Now in his earliest metaphysic embedded in Science and the Modern World Whitehead did address a problem common to philosophers of that period: how to find a workable substitute for space, time, and matter, the discredited notions of scientific materialism.

It is a mistake, however, to overlook the notions of space and location: it is not necessary to leave these concepts to the abstractness of a static formal model or to unanalyzed technological «common sense.»

Our notions of location are a case where, in the absence of that criticism, common sense may lead us into mistaken and disastrous ideas and plans involving space and time.

More to the point, Newton's «Scholium» which introduces the notions of «absolute, true, mathematical» space and time, and «relative, apparent, common» space and time (PNP 6 - 12), makes clear that absolute space and absolute time continua are thought to be necessary for a satisfactory theory of dynamics, that is, a theory of the forces which determine • the motion of material objects.7 The main idea in Newton's position is that not all physical frames of reference are suitable for satisfactory analysis of the motion of material objects; in fact, no physical frame of reference is completely suitable for this purpose.

So how about instead of asking to touch her belly with the accompanying hand out ready to violate, tell her that you aren't even going to ask or go there because you respect her personal space and the common sense notion that NO ONE, especially a tired, hormonal, pregnant woman, wants someone rubbing her belly.

The scientific aspects of the film are probably not going to impress many who have a basic notion of science, especially in astrophysics, or just in common sense as far as how our technological advancements (especially in space travel) will probably progress in the next 50 years or so, but to judge it on that level will probably ruin the rumination on the film's larger questions regarding humanity and its right to existence.

The public is invited to observe five disparate working methods, though they all share and exploit a greater notion and common area of felt space while applying a diverse set of tactics of presentation.