Sentences with phrase «electromagnetic societies»

The third level, the level of so - called electromagnetic societies, is of most importance to our present discussion.

Our point is that Whitehead, within the limits of his knowledge, might more properly have spoken of material electromagnetic societies, or have used some other term to acknowledge mass explicitly.

Thus Whitehead suggested that there is an «electromagnetic society» (Process 98).

Not only does Whitehead call our cosmic epoch the «electromagnetic society», he also writes:

Whitehead's trained mathematical intuition penetrates into the nature of things to grasp the defining characteristics of a vast society, wider than the electromagnetic society, wider than the societies which define the geometrical elements and the very concept of measurability itself.

The latter is embedded, so to speak, in the former, so that a determination of the variable physical quantities which characterize the electromagnetic society is obtained against a background of relationships which comprise a uniform metric structure:

The physical and geometrical order of nature is constituted by at least three societies, «the society of pure extension,» «the geometric society,» and «the electromagnetic society.»

Our cosmic epoch, Whitehead tells us, is a vast electromagnetic society (PR 147), and it is the ideal of mathematical physics to systematize into laws the characteristics of this society.

But the electromagnetic society as such would provide «no adequate order for the production of individual occasions realizing peculiar «intensities» of experience unless it were pervaded by more special societies» (PR 150).

Not exact matches

Next to the Albany Paranormal Research Society table, a middle - aged woman is solemnly explaining the workings of an electromagnetic sensor that can, she asserts, detect the presence of ghosts.

Present society with its reliance of electricity and electromagnetic effects (e.g. radio, satellite communications) may be vulnerable to technological diruptions in the event of a full field reversal.

From communication to transportation (of people, goods, and messages), from design to production, from political economy and capital regimes, our contemporary societies are guided by codes written in programming languages that use electromagnetic waves and computers.

The AG placed great weight onto the definition of an information society service, as found in the amended Technical Standards Directive, being a service «entirely transmitted, conveyed and received by wire, by radio, by optical means or by other electromagnetic means» (para. 29, AG's emphasis).