Sentences with phrase «descriptions of nature»

Petterson has been widely praised for his descriptions of nature, and of small quiet moments in everyday life.

The writing was lyrical at times and the descriptions of nature show keen observation.

«As long as these descriptions of nature remain confined to their own scope of application, they can not contribute to a unified theory that captures physics at the boundary between these specialized regimes,» the researchers wrote in the study.

A bold new idea aims to link two famously discordant descriptions of nature.

Descriptions of nature are human constructions but nature is such as to bear description in some ways and not others.

Furthermore, the notion of pregnancy here, together with descriptions of Nature as events (VI 200, 208), converges on Merleau - Ponty's preference in La Nature for a Whiteheadian potentiality in nature as against Sartre's full and complete en sui, and also reinforces Merleau - Ponty's appreciation of Whitehead's term «concrescence.»

Merleau - Ponty also benefits from Whitehead's descriptions of nature as a process to criticize (again) Jean - Paul Sartre's view of the plenitude of the en sui.

Her descriptions of nature's profligacy and violence are most obsessive and haunted in the chapter titled «Fecundity.»

These answers are true not because they are metaphysically accurate descriptions of the nature of a person — how can we hope to define in this sense the nature of Christ when we have no idea how to define our own nature?

But that can happen only if these creeds are recognized to be the symbols of God's revealing and saving action, not metaphysically accurate descriptions of the nature of his agent.

Nowhere in the ancient East do we find such sublime concepts and descriptions of nature as in Israel.

Here are some descriptions of the nature of true discipleship.

The succession of theories of the atom, for example, exhibits no «convergence» in descriptions of the nature of fundamental particles, but oscillates between continuity and discontinuity, field conceptions and particle conceptions, and even speculatively among different topologies of space.39

Scientific laws are descriptions of nature.

It's a method that rejects faith and relies on confirmation to ensure that a self consistent description of nature can be established.

Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».

This is a description of the nature of the process of relational power viewed structurally and abstractly.

We possess no firsthand description of the nature of what they saw, or the circumstances of their experiences.

We can trust the loving kindness of God to give us what is best for us and our loved ones in the realm beyond bodily death without an exact description of its nature.

Precise description of the nature of coercion in this third sense is very difficult.

In reply to this criticism one must grant the point that a metaphysical account of experience, taken by itself, does not and can not give a fully adequate description of the nature of man, especially of man in his religious dimension.

In my view, Whitehead's «generic notion» of «actual entities» must be taken as that and nothing else, i.e., as a metaphysical description of the nature of real things, and not as involving any claim that actual entities are real things or the real constituents of things.

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It also requires a description of the nature of the state employee's outside work.

«This energy is part of the quantum description of nature — you just can't get it out,» says Schwab.

There are by now only a small minority of physicists who think Einstein was right to reject quantum theory as the foundation of our scientific description of nature.

Japan's Makato Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa share the Nobel Prize with American Yoichiro Nambu for work related to a fundamental description of nature at the subatomic particle level through what is known as broken symmetries.

This quantization of physical quantities, which is at the heart of our description of Nature, made its way through the centuries, as evidenced by the antique concept of the atom.

If there is a description of the nature of the contoured surface, that should go here, or any other information useful to understand the data.

This alternative view of learning requires a shift in focus from a common body of taught content to an understanding and description of the nature of long - term learning progress.

Juakola — Thanks for the provocative reference, and its description of the nature, magnitude, and unpredictability of sudden climate changes.

Relevancy is to be determined upon a description of the nature of the documents sought and a reasonable interpretation of the pleadings: Boxer at 359.

In any event, even if it had, I am satisfied that the specification provides a full, clear and exact description of the nature of the invention and the manner in which it can be practised [AZT].

As noted by the Court of Appeal at para. 45, the Supreme Court of Canada provided the following description of the nature of evidence which may appropriately be considered as «surrounding circumstances» by a court interpreting terms of a contract (Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53 (CanLII) at para. 58):

In one instance, a Texas business opportunity contract must have certain information in ten point type, including: the terms of payment; a detailed description of the acts or services that the seller will perform for the purchaser; the seller's principal business address; the name and address of the seller's registered agent in Texas; the delivery date; and a description of the nature of the buy - back or security agreement, if there has been one represented by the seller.

Instead, use a generic description of the nature of the business.

If you are asking a company to provide an «investigative report» — a report based on personal interviews concerning a person's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and lifestyle — you must also disclose to the applicant or employee of his or her right to a description of the nature and scope of the investigation.

The notice of intent must include the following: (1) a notice of the presumption of equal responsibility for the reasonable costs of construction, maintenance, or necessary replacement of the fence; (2) a description of the nature of the problem with the shared fence; (3) the proposed solution for the problem; (4) the estimated construction or maintenance costs to address the problem; (5) the proposed cost sharing approach; and (6) the proposed timeline for addressing the problem.

Not exact matches

Keep an eye out for the business plan's description not only of the service and products involved, but the size and competitive nature of the business - and the challenges and risks involved.

Therefore, explanations and descriptions of how nature was (to the extent we can determine at this stage) and how nature is IS science, and therefore belongs in a science classroom.

Instead of making «being itself» their final description of God, they recognize a dynamic «becoming» as integral to the divine nature.

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

The professional athlete is a player according to our description only so long as he or she finds the nature of the sport complete and satisfying apart from the money and fame.

Members must be told in advance about the searching nature of the interview, but care should also be taken not to frighten people by portentous descriptions of what is about to happen.

It would be difficult to decide which is the more poetic description of the kingdom — Whitehead's notion of the consequent nature of God or the traditional notion of heaven.

Our description of value shows that faith is given through the nature of the responses actually generated in the inter-relation of persons with the objects of their loyalty.

Charles W. Morris, in Six Theories of Mind, writes: «Whitehead's course of procedure is to give a comprehensive description of human experience and then to take this description as a key to the nature of reality» (quoted in 1:51).

The description of the generic character of an actual entity should include God, as well as the lowliest actual occasion, though there is a specific difference between the nature of God and that of any occasion.

3, centers directly upon the «structure of faith as trust in God» (6:91) and, in effect, «pierces [Paul's] own system of thought» (6:102) by allowing Abraham's faith actually to define the content of Christian faith; (3) Mt. 25:31 - 46, the description of the last judgment, in which humanistic actions of a general nature actually «interpret what the Christian confession really means (6:73).

In the same spirit Santayana and Whitehead agree in objecting, like Nietzsche, to the idea that change in the natural world is controlled by «laws of nature,» viewing the laws rather as simply descriptions of what each unit to which they apply «decides» to do itself (RB 301 - 302).