Sentences with phrase «from purposive»

Through this account Whitehead means to overcome «a complex of bifurcations, fatal to a satisfactory cosmology,» i.e., «the separations of perceptual fact from emotional fact; and of causal fact from emotional fact, and from perceptual fact, and of perceptual fact, emotional fact, and causal fact, from purposive fact» (PR 444).

Teleologically structured activity is to be distinguished, however, from purposive behavior as genus is distinguished from species.

Not exact matches

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

Fumbling to find them materials from the history of Christian spirituality that might fire their imagination, I took in a sheet of selected sayings from the desert fathers that stressed the efficacy of simply «remaining in one's cell» as a purposive means of monastic self - knowledge.

In discovering that the «sick» member of the family could be more clearly understood and sometimes better helped in the context of the purposive role played in the family, a system with much mutual inheritance, these pioneers went far afield from their origins, yet in just the direction that a Whiteheadian perspective would anticipate.

For example, in the case of a man climbing a ladder to retrieve his hat from the roof, there would be no incompatibility between a purposive explanation and a physiological explanation if neither is considered complete in itself.

The notion of physical energy in physics is an abstraction from the complex energy, emotional and purposive, which is embodied in an actual entity (Al 239; PR 178).

This implies that all emotional and purposive response must be considered derivative from the more primary conscious perception of those universals constituting the data of sense perception (PR 246).

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

The fire from the altar of Yahweh by which Isaiah himself is cleansed for Yahweh's service (6:6 f.) symbolizes the nature and function of judgment and points beyond judgment to Yahweh's purposive redemption.

Purposive sampling of mothers and fathers with breastfeeding infants was conducted over six months from June 2007 to December 2007 across the Perth metropolitan area.

Coherent control of purposive actions emerges from the coordination of multiple brain circuits during learning.

The study of research is a qualitative research by using purposive sampling to select 10 volunteers who have unwanted pregnancy mother is 13 - 21 years old and they have to take care their children is newborn to 2 years old from Phichit province in Thailand.

Helpful tips on «anti - bias / multicultural» teaching include bringing in speakers from other ethnic groups, taking purposive field trips, and discussing skin color and the biases of staff members.

A review of the long line of Supreme Court decisions descending from Chief Justice Dickson's and Mr. Justice LaForest's decision in Sparrow in 1990 shows a Court that began its consideration of these matters by describing s. 35 (1) «as a promise» and that promises needed to be considered with a liberal and generous purposive interpretation.

However the Commissioner favored a purposive and contextual reading to conclude the 1997 transitional provision was not intended to apply to the current ATB regime, but rather the legislature intended this transitional section to apply to references to the former branch of the Treasury Department known as the Government of Alberta Treasury Branches to ensure legal interests transitioned from this prior structure to the new corporate ATB entity established at that time.

Given the broad, purposive interpretation of the freedom of expression guaranteed by s. 2 (b), those who deliberately publish falsehoods are not, for that reason alone, precluded from claiming the benefit of the constitutional guarantees of free speech.

A purposive construction should obviously focus on the wording of a claim, obviously, but this is a far cry from saying that nothing else should be considered.

While they acknowledged that the legislation ought to be given a broad and liberal interpretation, the justices held that «a liberal and purposive interpretation can not supplant a textual and contextual analysis simply in order to give effect to a policy decision different from the one made by Parliament.»

Further, it represents a departure from the clear direction of the Supreme Court to apply purposive construction universally.

Ms Chekov argued that the judge should adopt a purposive approach to interpreting the act rather than such a literal one, that the purpose of the wording was to prevent a party from making a double claim under both titles rather than no claim at all.

So the tension in the judgments — between, dare I say it, the purposive and the literalist — is between Lord Sumption's pragmatic outcome and Lord Reed's concern that such an outcome could not be derived from the literal wording of the Act.

Distinct from the focussed purposive construction approach of Free World, the court in Pollard v BABN appears to imply that this different construction would in fact be a better construction if the patentee in a later infringement action was limited by definitions it provided to the Patent Office years earlier.

Notice # 1 refers to the importance of the examiner's knowledge: «In Amazon FCA it was recognized that, during examination, the necessary foundation of knowledge for performing a purposive construction of the claims is found in submissions from the applicant and the knowledge of an appropriately experienced examiner.»

It made a purposive argument and also adduced text from a legislative committee report that suggested the Commissioner be granted a power of review that would operate «notwithstanding any law or privilege.»

In the first study, a nationwide purposive sample of 300 families seeking to adopt children with special needs from the public child welfare system was selected, interviewed, and surveyed to determine actual and potential barriers to the completion of the adoption process.

It was part of the Taiwanese Adolescent Self - Harm Project (TASP), a prospective study conducted to evaluate the 1 - year incidence of self - harm behaviour and the associated risk factors among adolescents in Taiwan.16 From October 2008 to March 2010, we recruited first - grade students from 14 senior high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan by purposive samplFrom October 2008 to March 2010, we recruited first - grade students from 14 senior high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan by purposive samplfrom 14 senior high schools in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan by purposive sampling.