Sentences with word «fixity»

Science took a sharp turn; Paley's natural theology, with its assumption of fixity of species since the Creation of Genesis, careered into obsolescence; eventually, his watchmaker was blinded by a scathing Dawkins.

The problem is that the texts present us not with just one theism, but two, that of the middle dialogues, Republic, Phaedo, and Symposium, in which God is subsumed under what Hartshorne calls the category of absolute fixity, and that of the later dialogues, Phaedrus, Timaeus, and Laws.

While accepting the advantages of flexibility, these countries may want a greater degree of fixity for a time, to help anchor expectations where these are fragile.

Psychologically, the tension may be said to exist between the tendency toward fixity on one hand and toward flexibility on the other.

The finely balanced, perpetually moving rods create «vibrations» that extend into the surrounding space, connecting to the environment and breaking free from fixities of traditional painting.

Expertise also makes ideas difficult to share because of functional fixity: as we become familiar with something, we think about it more in terms of the use we put it to and less in terms of what it looks like and what it is made of.

That is to say, human nature is not taken as a static entity, a fixed substance, about which predications may be made with equal fixity.

This affirmation of apostolic fixity and historical development ultimately drove Newman to Rome.

How that fixity arose is a separate matter.

«Admit prescience of future contingencies, and you necessitate an immobile fixity for the whole history of the human race, past and future, so certain in every iota as to obliviate [sic.]

If we had to choose between a total process of evolution and a state of complete fixity, that is to say between two absolutes — everything incessantly in motion, or everything for ever immovable — we should be bound to choose the first.

And here again we note the same freedom of treatment, in contrast with the relative fixity of the report of the sayings.

Likewise understandable is the tendency toward fixity among those whom time has made brittle and whose long buffeted and trampled ideals are exhausted.

Far from believing in a fixed order of nature, the people conceived the only fixity and dependability to consist in a world of magic, for the operation of some part of which they possessed the secret.

I hoped that encountering them up close would resolve a question I've long harbored: Why do we, as animals, uproot ourselves rather than maintaining the stately fixity of trees?

Guard against digital degradation by performing fixity checks on your files and analyzing your hardware's integrity.

Perhaps this somehow aids the reader, providing more fixity and solidity to the reader's sense of unfolding and progress of the text, and hence the story.»

His artistic interests are in the performance, construction, and deconstruction of sex, gender, and sexuality with the goal of refuting this triad's perceived fixity through ambiguity and play.

Bai's latest body of work, assembled for the exhibition Here Today, retains this paradoxical combination of fleeting ephemerality and concrete fixity.

Painting's mesmerizing fixity is achieved in part by its haptic qualities, separating it from other 2D and time - based media.

The Sublime (a study copublished by Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press) examined the contemporary meaning of the concept, revealing that the only consensus on the matter was «the notion that the sublime represents a taking to the limits, to the point at which fixities begin to fragment.»

Her device, an investigation of the image of the writer in nature, particularly of the writers who've happened to pass through one particular green London landscape over the course of several centuries, or of one green landscape through which so much cultural thought, invention and creativity has by both chance and design passed, actually banishes time, redraws notions of fertility and uncircumscribes fixity of both image and expectation.

It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity.

But is the development from the God of the category of absolute fixity to the God of absolute mobility a simple contradiction?

This is due, Pinker states, because of two actions of the mind: chunking and functional fixity.

Both visions comprehend the essential identity and fixity of an eternal order, which order, from the finite perspective, takes on an illusory visage of differentiation, novelty, and passage.

Does this make our knowledge false by reducing the radical fluidity and interconnectedness of the universe to the fixity of a concept (the «intelligible expression of an essence»)?

Reflecting on all these disputes, Dr Stephen Holmes of St Andrews University concludes that «a fundamentalist attitude to scripture relies on the fixity of the printed text.»

This more complex evolutionary picture reduces mechanism and fixity to the minimum, yet retains them in forms appropriate to the level or dimension of emergence.

The unity of the individual's freedom and the fixities of nature means, as was said in reference to changes in external events, that some things — but not all things — can be wrought by prayer.

What we regard as the fixity of present organisms may be simply a state of very slow movement, or of rest between spells of movement.

These are the unity of sickness and health, of body and spirit, of the freedom of the individual with the fixities of nature, of the relation of God to his total created world.

Belief in the fixity and finality of the choice (of one's own group) inevitably shuts out the limitless horizon of the idealizing process which is an integral part of religious experience.

In fact, at one place Teilhard seems to explain evolution as the actualization of potency (see The Vision of the Past (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), p. 192n; at another, Teilhard recommends the transposition of the notion of the fixity of essence to that of genesis (from a letter of May 18, 1964; see Claude Cuénot, Teilhard de Chardin [Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1965], p. 369).

13 The entrance of time, change, flexibility means the exit of old forms of certainty and fixity.

These can appear to give us both permanence and some sort of fixity.

Plato was in possession of two theisms, one of absolute fixity, the other of absolute mobility.

In Arabic, the word haqq is used primarily to explain the idea of permanence or fixity.

The consequence is a self - correcting and deconstructive dynamism that precludes the fixity of a stable image or the finality of any formulation.

The whole concept of solidarity depends on some degree of fixity, familiarity, and regularity.