Sentences with phrase «elaborated a theory of»

Whitehead is here beginning to elaborate a theory of awareness that gives the body its due with respect to the mechanics of perception.

Though Bergson did not develop an elaborate theory of extensive abstraction, it is not surprising that he should have viewed Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, in which this theory is given its classic formulation, as «one of the most profound (works) ever «written on the philosophy of nature» (DS 62n).

The RRSG proposes an approach to assessment of reading comprehension that differs from current approaches in that it is based on an appropriately rich and elaborate theory of reading comprehension.

Wang has elaborated a theory of «avant - avant - garde art» in the Chinese context (which encompasses «avant - garde,» «post-avant-garde» and «metavant - garde»), as he explains in an essay entitled «Art in its Regional Political Context: Exhibition and Criticism» (published in A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China: Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics, [transcript] Verlag, 2014, pp. 131 - 142):

In 1935, his book elaborating his theories of art, A Philosphy of Esthetics, was published, and in 1957, he completed his book Figure Drawing, published by Watson - Guptill.

A few groups pursued the study of possible mechanisms, for example elaborating theories of how changes in the atmosphere's electric circuit, which varies with the flux of cosmic rays, affected precipitation in the Arctic, Ram et al. (2009), or devising experiments that they hoped would show a direct and strong effect of cosmic rays on clouds, e.g., Svensmark et al. (2007)(which brought a strong press reaction but proved little).

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Posner is distressed that so much of contemporary legal scholarship elaborates or relies upon diverse moral theories that attempt, in highly abstract terms, to make normative claims about law.

At least it's a belief that's consistent with the facts and doesn't require an elaborate web of unsupported theories and claims to justify it.

In point of fact Christianity is an elaborate web of such theories and claims, none of which is supported by any objective evidence.

In nineteenth - century philosophies elaborating the evolutionary theory it appears as an overtone of agnosticism, as in Herbert Spencer's reference to the Unknowable.5 Even in modernist theologies like that of Shailer Mathews one senses this agnostic note accompanying the formulation of its practical or functional rationale, as when he wrote,

The theory of abstraction is elaborated precisely in order to bridge the gap between an ontological world of subsisting individuals and the epistemological world of universals.

Hence, within the context of the metaphysical theory of the objective idealism, as elaborated in «Realism and Idealism,» the term «a priori» receives a different meaning: a priori ideas function as abstract entities, as potentialities that are gradually actualized in the evolving reality.

Only when we understand the specific relationship between abstract entities, on the one hand, and material and mental entities on the other, as elaborated in his theory of objective idealism, does the true meaning of the concluding chapter of The Idea of Nature become clear.

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

If the possibility of the metaphysical project itself is not accepted, then the endeavor to elaborate a metaphysical theory does not seem to be very effective either.

Collingwood did not elaborate a metaphysical system of his own, making some tentative endeavors in the manuscripts, «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory.»

Trained in logic, mathematics and positive sciences, his main intention was to bring philosophy once again in touch with the sciences of his era (quantum mechanics, relativity theory, non-mechanical biology) and to elaborate a cosmological - metaphysical theory on the basis of the analysis of their presuppositions.

Finally found the string of blogs that elaborate your Z - Theory, David.

Critics such as the biochemist Robert Shapiro accuse the advocates of Complexity Theory of spinning an elaborate tautological amplification of the obvious: things are complex because the universe is complex.

Given the state of our world today, with its extremes of progress and poverty, it seems that modern economics so elaborate and difficult to comprehend, so saturated with mathematical jargon and abstruse models and theories, has failed to deliver the happiness it promised because it has failed to satisfy people's real, spiritual needs.

A French denier, Robert Faurisson, inaugurated these technical speculations, though it was Fred Leuchter, an American entrepreneur dealing in execution equipment for states with the death penalty, who provided Faurisson's theories with elaborate displays of pseudoscientific «proof» in The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdenek (1988).

In fact, if Hartshorne's solution can be said to surpass theirs in its explicitly psychicalist claim that God is somehow experienced not only by every human being but by every actual entity whatever, theirs can be said to go beyond his in its more fully elaborated metaphysics of knowledge or cognitional theory.

Systems analysis, elaborate simulation techniques, automated access to central data banks, information theory, game Theory, and the use of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application of data not hitherto postheory, game Theory, and the use of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application of data not hitherto posTheory, and the use of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application of data not hitherto possible.

There are many other points as well, in the conception of God and in the general theory of religion, where Cobb creatively elaborates — and, on occasion, corrects — the contributions of Whitehead toward an adequate natural theology.

Jencks» approach was given an elaborate theoretical justification a few years later by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice.

But I agree that all of the theories about structures of human existence that I elaborated in The Structure of Christian Existence are in need of further testing and refinement and that this is even more true with respect to my theory of the structure of Jesus» existence.

Islam, which best preserves the archaic elements of Semitic thought, has elaborated a very complete theory of the real elite, in is «numbered peoples.»

What must be added are premises elaborating a theory which describes the behavior of those parts in forming wholes.

Here practice refers not to the acquisition and application of a technical skill, but to a complex pattern of interaction by which people elaborate structures and theories of faithful life over time.

The notion of an electromagnetic field propagating in a vacuum is meaningful precisely because it is part of an elaborate physical theory which has numerous well - confirmed observable implications.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

Some researchers explain this wanton violence through «terror management theory»: To buffer ourselves from fear of death and reinforce our self - esteem and worldview, humans construct elaborate and sometimes violent defense mechanisms.

Once there, Josselyn dreamed up an ingeniously elaborate study with Silva to test their «neuronal competition» theory of memory formation.

His theory of natural selection, he realised, couldn't explain why the males of some species have evolved such preposterous ornaments or why others have elaborate armoury.

The effort to unify the views has resulted in a stream of elaborate hypotheses positing worlds with multiple dimensions of space, most notably string theory and its successor, M - theory.

«And a lot of that is an intelligent numbers game» based on genetic theories elaborated by Gregor Mendel more than a century ago.

While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.

Recent, very expensive and elaborate molecular dynamic theories can now estimate the shape of the hill, as well as how far it reaches into the oil.

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences (originally linguistic, logical - mathematical, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal) also elaborated on the view of human abilities as multidimensional.

She is known for her work to dismantle the sexist, racist and homophobic structure of the art world, and seeks to elaborate a queer, anti-racist, feminist history and theory of modern and contemporary Euro - American visual arts.

She also elaborates lots of theories about lot of things.

Oulipian poetic theory ranged from the polemical language of early manifestoes to elaborate formulations of a literary aesthetic based on algorithms and re-combinations.

Though the idea of Duchamp perpetrating such an elaborate (and quintessentially Duchampian) hoax is an appealing one, Shearer's theory gained little traction within the academic community.

Since 1969 Giuseppe Penone has been one of the leading representatives of Arte Povera, the critical theory elaborated by Germano Celant starting from 1967 and based on the work of a number of Italian artists, principally Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio.

Collishaw has created a zoetrope sculpture of fluttering hummingbirds to illustrate the theory that early human beings evolved art for the same reason hummingbirds evolved gorgeous feathers and elaborate dances: to seduce the opposite sex.

The Bauhaus takes credit for elaborating and advancing color theory through the work and teachings of Wassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten and Josef Albers.

However else the original Surrealist Revolution failed for being so successfully subsumed into and sublimated by the mainstream media, it directly and positively was the foundation on which all subsequent aesthetic theories and formal strategies of mid - to late - twentieth century art were elaborated.

Miskolczi elaborated his theory in a 2007 paper according to which the greenhouse gases collaborate by feedbacks to keep the IR transmittance of the atmosphere constant.

They do not understand the case for AGW, they believe any piece of non-science, such as Miskicolzci, they rant on about lunatic conspiracy theories, they construct elaborate straw man arguments, misrepresent the case put by the IPCC and indulge in frantic arm waving.

Some of you guys seem to be subject to the same lack of discrimination between Science and Scientific Method that I criticized in Steven Jay Gould back in Science 2000: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/287/5451/253.e-letters The Gould Standard Excerpt: Steven Jay Gould has constructed an elaborate hand - waving argument in defense of the Deconstructionist Theory of the Intellectual Left.