Sentences with phrase «definite form»

Only a single definite form can be the basis of embryonic subjective unity.

If one is rooted in a particular context, committed to specific options, engaged in definite forms of action, and sensitive to historical injustice and contemporary dilemmas, and, at the same time, alive to the possibility that the Bible continues to speak, then one has to recognise one's situatedness in the long histories and traditions of the Biblical interpretation.

Thus was the geometric aspect of capitalism's abstract spatiality given definite form, depicted by the Cubist painters in the first decade of the twentieth century.

«30 Hence, verification is an endless circle of bringing the gross variations in our adverbial responses to clarity in the accusative mode and then using these more definite forms as guides for further experiencing and responsiveness in the adverbial mode.

Without any completely definite form as a guide, the occasion must itself decide how it will synthesize the data from its past, including God's preferential feeling.

But on this view there are no completely definite forms provided by God (or any other entity) from among which the concrescing occasion chooses its subjective aim.

As she once stated, «The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.»

In 1976 she stated: «The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.»

The conflict between materiality and the Élan Vital results in the creation of certain definite forms which serve as necessary conditions of indeterminacy.

And although I listened to him speak, privately and publicly, on hundreds of occasions — and he had much that was original and important to say — I do not believe I could quote a single phrase from his lips or put into definite form a single idea I remember from him.

One can see that the same matter takes different forms, as in ice, water, and steam, and that that which takes these several forms must have much less definite form than any of these individual forms of it.

But for Hartshorne, unlike Whitehead, these aims are not eternally definite forms made relevant by God, but rather temporally emergent forms to which it could become something similar.

For Confucius and Lao Tzu were founders only in the sense of channelling and giving definite form to attitudes and outlooks already present in China long before they came along.

Furthermore, the exigencies of his system required him to conceive of the initial aim in terms of single definite form: the «aim determines the initial gradations of relevance of eternal objects for conceptual feeling and constitutes the autonomous subject in its primary phase...» (PR 244).

God is the cosmic «adventure» (Whitehead integrating all real adventures as they occur, without ever failing in readiness to realize new states out of the divine potency, which is indeed «beyond number» and definite form, yet is of value only because number and form come out of it.48

Then finite actualization dearly differs from divine unification in that only one definite form is selected from these alternatives (PR 224).

6:17), i.e., a definite form of ethical instruction.

It selects from among these definite forms, but it does not further define them.

A recognizable object has a definite form, or character.

The first result of our investigation to become significant in this connection is the obvious one, namely, that almost all the elements in the tradition which give a definite form to the future expectation in the teaching of Jesus fail the test of authenticity.

All accept the hypothesis that there existed in ancient Judaism the conception of the Son of man as a pre-existent heavenly being whose coming as judge would be a feature of the eschatological drama, which we discussed and, in this definite form, rejected above.

It's a definite form of stress on the operator in and of itself.»

Each arrangement considers the delicate flexibility of the material, as a simple line without a definite form that can be moved and altered to create a multitude of images.

Before performance art adopted a definite form in the established art world BOZAR opened the doors of the Centre for Fine Arts to proponents of «immaterial» art.