Sentences with phrase «defined by the characteristics»

The writings of Thomas Aquinas and the authors who inspired and succeeded him are ambiguous on the question: Are human beings to be defined by the characteristics which they share with other creatures or by the features which set them apart?

The way it works and the way we engage with it are still defined by characteristics it has inherited from its easy - going early days, and this has left it under threat — from criminals, controlling authorities and commercial interests.

As a national study, providing information at a high level of statistical precision about various subgroups (defined by characteristics such as race / ethnicity, sex, disability status, school type such as private versus public school, etc.), MGLS: 2017 is a large undertaking.

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Most smart beta products use factors, or characteristics defined by the fund manager, to attempt to outperform their benchmark.

Our straight A's will have come in the form of building a portfolio around high - quality and predictable carry, coupled with assets defined by attractive price characteristics.

The same characteristics that defined DaVinci also are encompassed in Albert Einstein, who was eloquently described by Walter Isaacson as «the most thoughtful wonderer who appeared among us in three centuries.»

He continued: «One of Buffett's defining characteristics is that he so clearly lives by his own inner scorecard.

The hint of an answer is provided a few lines later when he says: «Thus a set of entities is a society (i) in virtue of a «defining characteristic» shared by its members, and (ii) in virtue of the presence of the defining characteristic being due to the environment provided by the society itself» (PR 89/137).

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

The defining characteristic of Jesus was love, and so those who follow Jesus must also be defined by love.

From their knowledge it is possible to arrange people into groups defined by certain shared characteristics.

If we define life in terms of generation and decay, it is quite clear that we must deny that God is characterized by life, since these characteristics are incompatible with the necessity of his being.

The way I currently view it, all sets by definition have some sort of defining characteristic.

This defining characteristic is «inherited» by later actual entities in the society from earlier actual entities in the society.

They are nexus of actual entities that are ordered by means of a «defining characteristic» (i.e., an eternal object).

The eternal object is a common defining characteristic only because the actual entities of the nexus are concretely related by their prehension and objectification of one another.

The differences between the kinds of things in nature then go back to the different contrasts, repetitions, divisions, or modes of integration involved in the chains of prehensions by which actual occasions make up societies with different defining characteristics.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

Every field of disciplined study is defined by certain characteristic methods and concepts.

Second, he understood such a nexus to be deficit of any «defining characteristic,» which is that required common element of form that describes and is inherited by each actual entity of the nexus of a society.

From its first great formulations by Plato and Aristotle, the chief defining characteristic of classical metaphysics has been its separation of what is given in our experience into two quite different kinds of reality.

Is any relevant difference introduced by the concept of a living person with its notion of defining characteristics via hybrid prehensions?

The society endures by repetition: each member repeats the form constituting the defining characteristic of the society.

A substance comes into being by means of that event which establishes its essence, i.e., an enduring object comes into being by means of the initial member occasion of that society which first constitutes its defining characteristic.

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

The second way for societies of occasions to survive is by changing their defining characteristics, done by admitting novelty in the form of conceptual feeling.

In developing this argument I shall (1) take a close look at the notion of religious pluralism, finding it to mean much more than mere multiplicity of groups defined by ecclesiastical characteristics; (2) look at the historical form taken by pluralism in American society as a set of pressures to which responses were required; and (3) identify the «religiousness» of the response made by legal institutions.

These characteristics are defined as «their ability to become pregnant and by their ability to terminate their pregnancies.»

Genetic identity, which has only a relatively definite meaning, involves (1) some «defining characteristic» reappearing in each member of a sequence or family of occasions; (2) direct inheritance by appreciably positive prehensions of this character from previous members.

A religious end or aim is defined by a set of practices, images, stories and concepts which has three characteristics.

By implicitly denying that abstractive sets have defining characteristics, he has constructed a pseudo-set which literally contracts to nothing: nothing ideal as well as nothing actual.

To succeed, it is important to define the characteristics of the project from the beginning, and make sure all the steps are approved by the customer.

These characteristics are defined by our pristine coastal location, unique soils and 40 years of viticultural history.

Established in 1996 by San Francisco entrepreneur Charlie Crocker and former Spottswoode winemaker Pam Starr, the winery has spent the last two decades cultivating the land to bring it to its fullest potential, and blending distinct blocks to define their own characteristic style founded on the estate's deep Napa Valley roots.

Used to varying degrees by Louis Van Gaal and now José Mourinho, despite adtaping admirably, Martial's strengths and abilities have become less clear cut, his defining characteristics have become muddied, his rhythm and direction unsettled; pivotal for a young, malleable player.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

Despite parents becoming concerned as well as exasperated by such behaviors, these are normal characteristics that define what is often called the «terrible twos».

For his research, Hamm defines a lone wolf terrorist by four characteristics: a person who perpetrates political violence, does not belong to (but often identifies with) an organized group such as al - Qaeda, acts alone (as opposed to the pair of Boston Marathon bombers), and does not commit violence out of grief or the pursuit of profit, vengeance or fame.

Many hypotheses advanced by previous investigators proved to be correct, but some of the defining characteristics of orchids — their tiny seeds, their requirement for fungi to germinate, and their fused pistils and anthers — were not themselves responsible for the high rate of orchid speciation.

Light waves can be defined by three fundamental characteristics: their color (or wavelength), polarization, and direction.

By PAT SHIPMAN Ever since Plato described humans as «featherless bipeds», we have recognised walking upright on two legs as a defining characteristic of humankind.

He starts by defining the most important characteristic of life — in his view, the ability to «breed and multiply».

«We showed how energy flow is impeded by disorder, which is the defining characteristic of most materials for low - cost solar cells and LEDs,» Baldo says.

Such keystone actors among corporations, the authors say, can be defined by the following characteristics: a) they dominate global production revenues and volumes within a particular sector, b) control globally relevant segments of production, c) connect ecosystems globally through subsidiaries, and d) influence global governance processes and institutions.

Here, we report on local and global changes in MHW characteristics over time as recorded by satellite and in situ measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and defined using a quantitative MHW framework, which allows for comparisons across regions and events1.

We intend to develop a quantitative, detailed and cohesive definition of neuronal susceptibility to degeneration in the cerebral cortex, by extending data on Alzheimer disease to other dementing disorders as well as animal models of age - related illnesses, and by defining the key neurochemical and morphological characteristics linked to relative vulnerability (or resistance to degeneration) of identified neuronal populations.

Metazoans can now be defined by a long list of genomic synapomorphies — gene content, intron — exon structure and syntenies — as well as characteristics common to all animal life such as sex, development, controlled cellular proliferation, differentiation and growth, and immunity.

Originally, Syndrome X was defined by four characteristics: (1) abdominal obesity, (2) elevated levels of triglycerides and low levels of high - density lipoproteins (HDL, or the «good» cholesterol), (3) hypertension, and (4) insulin resistance.

Novelty, the main characteristic that defines fashion as fashion, has always been achieved by quoting from other places and other cultures.

Everyone has a zodiac sign, determined by your date of birth; people under each star sign supposedly have defining traits and characteristics.