Sentences with phrase «epochal time»

These present times, as painful as they are, will prove to be an epochal time of wealth building, if we position ourselves correctly.

The theory of epochal time was formulated to avoid this logical inconsistency.

But it makes sense for Whitehead to shift from a theory of epochal time to one of epochal becoming in order to formulate a rule by which his earlier theory might be excluded.

This question presupposes Whitehead's theory of epochal time, which has many difficult problems.

Since none of the alternatives is satisfactory one might consider abandoning the theory of epochal time altogether.

In summary, it seems to me that the trade - offs involved in the following choices are worthwhile — epochal time over continuous time, varying durations over a uniform duration, active superjects over inert superjects.

The theory of epochal time states that the genesis of an actual occasion does not take place in physical (clock) time; it creates a quantum of physical time: in every act of becoming there is the becoming of something with temporal extension; but that act itself is not extensive, in the sense that it is divisible into earlier and later acts of becoming which correspond to the extensive divisibility of what has become» (PR 69/107).

For instance, perhaps we do not have to think of one notion of time as more fundamental than another — perhaps we can find ways of conceiving of epochal time and continuous time as basically complementary.

Epochal time vanishes in the divine actuality.

Epochal time has the essential character of «perpetual perishing» (PR 340 / 517).

I believe Whitehead wanted to avoid just this proliferation of prehensions beyond necessity in his doctrine of epochal time.

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The question is then is this kind of a one time epochal event that's beyond the level of even those big things.

In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin - a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters - delivers the first definitive blow - by - blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink.

The assumption of an anisotropy of time, along with the «momentariness» of change in spite of the epochal nature of moments, aligns the theory with microgenetic concepts.

A micro-genetic state is both epochal and time - creating.

We must not be confused by Whitehead's atomistic language as some of his disciples apparently are; the so - called «epochal theory of time» is atomistic only in name.

The epochal nature of becoming displaces time from within an epoch to the succession of epochal states.

Because of the epochal theory of time, this coalescence of the universe into a new unity is not temporally extensive.

I have discussed (in Section V) a principle that is implicit in Whitehead's epochal theory of time: the principle that every act of becoming is such that there is another act of becoming that is immediately later.

Whitehead advocated an» «epochal theory of time»» in Process and Reality (68).

This point of the knower's being the knowledge while not being aware of itself is central to the epochal theory of time, and the theory of prehension.

This notion seems to allude to an epochal theory of time.

This later theory of James's bears close resemblance to the epochal theory of time offered by Whitehead in Process and Reality.

This brilliant speculation of James's is a necessary consequence of the epochal theory of time.

Whitehead's epochal theory of time circumvents this problem in a manner that is quite convincing: «there is a becoming of continuity, but no continuity of becoming» (PR 35/53).

This will obviously depend on our conception of time, and it is clear that the intelligibility of Whiteheadian concresence hangs on the intelligibility of an atomic or «epochal» conception of time, one that is very different from our usual way of thinking of these matters.

Moreover, time's cumulative character is seriously undercut by the epochal processes that constitute it.

These epochal and cumulative characters of time importantly figure in Whitehead's interpretation of concrete values and the humanly good life.

1 See David Sipfle, «On the Intelligibility of the Epochal Theory of Time,» The Monist, 53, 1969, p. 509; Robert Palter, Whitehead's Philosophy of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 7.

According to the epochal theory, time is not some absolute container within which actual entities become; rather, time is an abstraction from the succession of actual entities.

However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the epochal theory of time, which stands as a great modification of Whitehead's event ontology.

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and RealTime» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Realtime - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

11 I follow Ford in his argument that the epochal theory of time was a discovery Whitehead made subsequent to his delivery of the Lowell Lectures.

However, the epochal theory of time disposes of this foundation of spatial extensiveness, and hence this distinguishing characteristic of durations is likewise lost.15

Whitehead wants to circumvent this idea with his «epochal» theory of time, according to which an actual entity exists only as long as the timespan of the becoming that constitutes it (PR 308 / 469f).

On this point cf. also David A. Sipfle «Henri Bergson and the Epochal Theory of Time» in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics, ed.

For example, Hartshorne is full committed to Whitehead's epochal theory of time, which entails that human experience consists in a succession of momentary experiences.

If you search the literatures enough, many a newspaper would have roared at Chief Obafemi Awolowo that he was wasting time and resources, executing his epochal free primary education programme.

Following this catastrophic event, her work underwent an epochal shift as she more closely explored time, place and geography.

Curated by the Museum of Modern Art's Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman and the High Museum's Michael Rooks, Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013 uses the collections of the Museum of Modern Art to examine six specific years in the history of artmaking: 1913 (the year of the epochal Armory Show), 1929, 1950, 1961, 1988, and 2013 (a.k.a. the near future, though it will have become the present by the time Fast Forward closes on January 20).

Through a subtle orchestration of space and time, light and darkness, movement and stasis, and the partially revealed and provocatively withheld, the environment of the Pavilion of Chile becomes a psychic and epochal encounter of the errancy of images and the vulnerabilities of historical accountability.

Barroca draws from a wide - range of historical and documentary material — photographs, videos, and sound recordings — produced at the time of major epochal events.

Marin's enthusiasm would continue over the course of his long career, and in time his innovative paintings would take their place among those of the many other important American painters who depicted the state's uniquely American landscape, including the epochal seascapes of his illustrious predecessor, Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910), as well as the iconic images of Mount Katahdin by his great contemporary in the Stieglitz group, Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943).

In the latter two thirds of that time, warming and the effects on climate have been epochal, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

According to Time magazine's very latest wisdom, the epochal blizzards that have hit the Northeast this winter are a likely consequence of global warming.