Sentences with phrase «event in nature»

I hope to see my Great granddaughter give birth one day in a world that understands childbirth as a naturally occurring event in nature.

It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.

He generalized from bodily events to other events in nature.

Still, his systematic affirmations, as Ford has helped me see, were based on a distinction between events in nature and human cognition of such events and by means of such events.

Dependence, issuing in independence, is one of the most familiar events in nature.

In mid-December the orbiting telescope captured a rare glimpse of x-radiation from the early phases of a supernova, one of the most violent events in nature.

Stretching time scales to explore extreme events in nature seemed impossible, yet this feat is now conceivable thanks to a team from the Institut FEMTO - ST (CNRS / UFC / UTBM / ENSMM), which used an innovative measurement technique enabling the capture of such events in real time.

Quantum physicists know the smaller the time frame, events in nature become more chaotic and unpredictable.

There are certain events in nature that still need to be observed; actually, it is believed that 95 % of our oceans remain unexplored and we have discovered only 10 % of the living things on Earth.

He recognized that these disciplines abstract from the full event, including especially its value, but he does not say that they abstract from the interiority or subjectivity of events in nature.

God can not unilaterally bring it about that events in nature be perfectly correlated with the needs of specific humans.

If God foresees the actual details of the future, events in nature - history are nothing but the unfolding of a previously written scroll negating creaturely freedom.

None of this proves that Whitehead did not attribute subjectivity and experience to all events in nature.

Further, that these additional elements in a complete actual occasion are elements in the emergent value indicates that emergent value is also found in the events in nature apart from this added richness.

There is no suggestion that the events in nature are also «subjects.»

Griffin italicizes «unit of experience» to show that already at the time he gave the Lowell Lectures, Whitehead understood all the events in nature as units of experience.

Again, it may well be that it points forward to fresh thinking, that the idea that all events in nature can be thought of as units of experience stayed with him until it became his own position.

The fact that Whitehead states that up until this point he has considered actual occasions only in their concreteness, and that this means only as events in nature, supports the nonpanexperiential reading of the Lowell Lectures.

He relates cognitive events to events in nature in such a way as to explain that value and internal relations belong to the latter and are derived from them by cognitive events.

Griffin knows, of course, that in Science and the Modern World Whitehead did not extend the term «subject» explicitly to events in nature.

This particular type of event, which may or may not accompany an event in nature, is the only «subject» explicitly considered in this book.

These events are events in nature, and we should posit that all events in nature are similarly unifications in themselves of aspects of all the other entities in the universe.

In the Lowell Lectures themselves, Griffin points out the great importance Whitehead attaches to the attribution of value to all events in nature.

The issue, then, with regard to pansubjectivity, is whether in the absence of cognition, events in nature, including bodily events, but not only they, are «subjects.»

It is this side of the occasion in virtue of which it is an event in nature.

But he does not provide reason here for rejecting Ford's alternative reading that the concrete experience in question is that of the human observer and that the events in nature are constituted by their internal relations to all the others.

In Science and the Modern World Whitehead does not explicitly attribute experience or subjectivity to events in nature.

He writes that Whitehead's statement about value shows that he attributes «interiority» to events in nature (EWM 42).

If they are found in this event in nature, they can be attributed to other events in nature also.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

Scientific discourse, because of its distance from the universe as primarily perceived, can not be the measuring stick for the trustworthiness of those symbols and myths pointing to a final purpose to events in nature and history.

But it is safe to hold, at least in a loose sense, that biblical consciousness is teleological in that it posits symbolically a final significance to events in nature and history.

That is, every event in nature is to be understood exhaustively in terms of other events in nature.

Today in all academic disciplines, it is unthinkable to suggest that God has influenced any event in nature or history.

There is no absolute bounding of events in nature.

Also, any event in nature, that is not explicable in mechanistic terms, is clearly supernatural.

She adds: «Events in nature are not random, but happen for a reason.

Perhaps people will stop conjuring up nonexistent links between human emotions and events in nature if they suffer economic losses from such conjectures, as in Sharon Stone's immolation of the value of her image for promoting cosmetics in China by expressing sentiments like those of RP.

2007/04/18: BBC: «Spring is new summer» - report Two events in nature that usually herald the beginning of summer have started already, say researchers looking into reports from the public.