Sentences with phrase «conceptual scheme»

Both Sartre and Whitehead in providing us with conceptual schemes for handling self - determination have shown us that indeterminism is not a confused idea.

This ideological program of unification is a source of motivation for the highly abstract conceptual schemes found in the writings of many systems theorists.

Nevertheless, it may be that the modest conceptual scheme proposed here will prove useful in formulating those issues, showing why they are more «basic,» and showing why your proposals about them are illuminating and fruitful.

A wholly positive conceptual scheme contradicts this intuition, this nontriumphantalist post-modern vision.

In the metaphysical articulation of the theistic model, as Ferré shows, various conceptual schemes have been used — for example, the categories employed by Plato, Aristotle, Whitehead, or Heidegger.

It is a colorless, odorless Wuxing (Wu - hsing) The Chinese term wuxing (wu - hsing, «five processes» or «five phases») refers to a fivefold conceptual scheme that is found

Concomitant visions of the future will likely be distorted by inadequate or corrupt data, and by the poor conceptual scheme brought to bear on those data.

I have tried to show in various ways that the notion of subordinate persons introduces a necessary flexibility into our view of mental operations, without requiring any major revision of Whitehead's conceptual scheme.

The proposal consistently employs a conceptual scheme in which the conceptual disjunctions «theory / practice,» «academic / professional,» «reflection / action» simply have no work to do.

But whether I use the term «psychicalism,» favored by the process philosophers, or such terms as Russell's «neutral stuff» or Feigl's distinction between the physical as the «reference» and the psychical as the «sense,» I am merely positing a name, not arguing philosophically for a conceptual scheme designed to overcome the body / mind dualism.

Whitehead criticizes this conceptual scheme by means of Ockham's razor.

Futhermore, Whitehead and Laszlo both intend to offer a conceptual scheme that will apply universally and help make the cosmos intelligible as a whole to human thought.

I would say that one of White - head's signal achievements was to develop a conceptual scheme for handling this classical notion of divine eternity, a scheme that does the job much better than any used by the classical theologians themselves.

The point is that, even today when we attempt to develop a conceptual scheme for the understanding of man, we ordinarily bring to our task an understanding of concepts and a set of concepts which arise in our dealings with the external world as mediated by sense experience.

The difficulty of unraveling the elements of futuristic and realized eschatology in the message of Jesus stems from the fact that, far more basic for him than any conceptual scheme of the sequence of events, was the fact of God's present reality to him and for him.

His thoughts on the special role of agape in evolution may serve as a point of departure for developing a conceptual scheme that makes room for the origin of what is radically new in a world of regularity and order.

Notable advances have usually required new «models» and conceptual schemes, fresh ways of looking at the data, or novel ideas for the design of apparatus.

John Cobb is surely right when he argues that all conceptual schemes are wanting in their own cogency and in need of sympathetic, frank criticism.

By systematic we mean not that some traditional set of problems has been covered, but rather that the philosophical product is the deliberate and methodic interrelation of its constituents, viz., its concepts, categories, and principles in a structure which supports broad inferences and extensions or applications of the conceptual scheme.

The opposition is between the view that the further back you go, you go to more and more rudimentary judgements and the view that there is a real difference between perception and thought; and also that you don't in perception come down to a (Kantian) inchoate manifold which you work up with conceptual schemes, but that you come down to something given in sense - awareness about which you can say a great deal more than that.

Rather, theological thinking is a discipline which involves concept formation and the development of a conceptual scheme.

«What we possess,» states MacIntyre, «are fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts which now lack those contexts from which their significance «loved» (AV 2).

As Quine wisely said, «No inquiry being possible without some conceptual scheme, we may as well retain and use the best one we know» right down to the latest detail of quantum mechanics, if we know it and it matters.»

The remedy for such cynicism consists in the recognition of the necessity for more adequate conceptual schemes and in sufficient reflection upon the experience of imperfection.

In the first place Freud himself never fully resolved the question of the relations of his conceptual scheme to biological theory.

Asked about it today, Mason de-emphasizes the power that any conceptual scheme could have over her work process: «Yes, analogous color is real, but I don't think like that, in terms of systems — I just do.

Louis» work exists at the exhibition entirely at Gaillard's pleasure, culled from the annals of modernism to function within Gaillard's conceptual scheme.

In fact, this conceptual scheme would allow us to dispense with the notion of «geoengineering» as much as CDR or SRM.

Adopting this conceptual scheme would have a host of advantages.