Sentences with phrase «continuous chain of thought»

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And yet there is no logical incoherence in thinking of nature as a hierarchy of distinct dimensions integrating a continuous, unbroken chain of physico - chemical occurrences, (just as the architect's designs do not interrupt the continuity of the brick laying process, but simply impose a determinate structure onto it.)

It is well known that the various forms of process thought are agreed in denying the existence of an enduring self which maintains absolute identity through change.1 Process thought — regardless of whether time is taken to be Continuous or discreet, or whether one holds to an A series or B series view of time — is committed to some form of ancestral chain model of the self wherein the self is a series of interrelated actual occasions in which earlier occasions are prehended by later members of the chain to form a serial nexus.