Sentences with phrase «function as elements»

Although Whitehead's idea of God functions as an element of metaphysical analysis, it grows out of experience.

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In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

However, analysts were disappointed that the watch is missing a key element seen as vital in emerging smartwatch technology: It lacks biometric sensors that could be used to monitor heart rate, respiration and other body functions deployed in other wearable fitness devices.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

These contrasts add to the subjective intensity of the passage of the Bill as an actual event and function as dynamic elements in a narrative.

The causal presence of a past noncontiguous occasion is real» when it is rightly felt as originating elements of feeling that are important to the becoming occasion and when intermediate occasions function primarily to mediate these elements as they are derived from that entity.

Suffice it to say, «it» is that element which functions as the agent of communication between incompossibles, as the immanent operator of disjunctive synthesis.

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

It had not yet been seen that the subject - predicate form can be viewed as a special case of a more general account of logical terms, functions, and relations: a true «logic of manifolds,» as Cassirer calls it (SF 72), eschewing any psychological elements, was yet to emerge.

If e functions as some sort of final cause, Mays does not inform us how; and if it were so to function, we seem to introduce an element of subjectivity and intentionality which Mays would eschew at the level of physical events.

The words «primordial nature,» «consequent nature,» and «superjective nature» should not be taken as nouns referring to different elements of God, each of which is an agent with its own distinctive functions.

As we see it functioning, it is a mixture of idealism and expediency with a great many bureaucratic and even some totalitarian elements corrupting its purity.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

I have intentionally chosen as examples those areas in which consciousness seems most autonomous to show that even there the conscious element is profoundly influenced by unconscious processes rather than being a self - contained entity or function.

May I emphasize the fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as aesthetic, ethical, religious experiences, intuition, inspiration, states of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.

The element of creativity, which is not accounted for by the so - called laws of nature, and which points to the organic character of the universe or its life as a whole, gives us a clue to God's transcendent functioning.

For example, in The Function of Reason, reason is defined as «the self - discipline of the originative element in history.»

Second, for many people a picture of Jesus that includes unhistorical and mythical elements has served as their compass, has functioned as the Christ to bring them into right relationship with God and neighbor.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

In fact, this culture can not be understood without seeing the way the Bible has functioned as Scripture with divine authority, whether in the development of the Middle Ages, the Protestant Revolution, or certain elements of the resistance to totalitarianism.

The future of evolving material beings, both non-living elements and compounds, and living forms, would be completely defined, determined and inevitable: as blind and as pre-fashioned as the multitudinous parts and functions that define a complex electronic machine.

The pastor as integrator can serve a useful function through working for a level of unity among the compartmentalized elements within a community.

My own interpretation of Whitehead takes account of two distinctive functions in the consequent nature: one of memory in which the entire past is preserved as an object of vivid immediacy, and the other of future envisagement which includes only those elements of the past which contribute to and do not derogate from the creative advance toward higher perfections.

It follows that some future possibility can function as a cause, and in such a way that our decisions regarding the future have an element of freedom.

If we recognize that it is through the imagination that a person presents alternatives to his present state of being (UMI 216), we may gain some idea as to how a neuroticized image of God can function as an inhibiting element.

The «thesis... that all interests should be organized as to function as one,» so as to be «creative of integrated experience,» while «sustaining and increasing the number of different elements or aspects of the world which enter into consciousness,» seems to adumbrate a vision of aesthetic organization of value experience (OI 3, 15).

For Whitehead, the answers to both questions, which I shall consider in turn, are framed in terms of the Psychological Physiology, the main «elements» of which consist of a nonsocial nexus of occasions in the brain (which functions as the body's principal source of creative novelty), the regnant society it supports, and their interactions with other bodily societies and nexuses (WPP 404 - 06).

He adds that just as an infinity of functions may have the same differential (functions which differ from each other by a constant — the so - called «constant of integration») so the integration of physico - chemical elements (a «summation» which, inversely, proceeds from the derivative to the function) would determine the vital action only in part.

As with Deutsch, the autonomy of the constituent elements in process can, to some extent, resist the interrelated functioning of the system.

It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop - lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on.

In addition, brown rice is high in selenium, which is a trace element nutrient that functions as cofactor for reduction of antioxidant enzymes.

Well, the broiler is a part of your oven that functions as a direct, super-concentrated heating element.

The first element that sets the Loving Moment nursing cover apart from others is that it functions somewhat like a poncho during feedings and pumpings, but otherwise doubles as a scarf.

These «functions» of the administrator were described by Henri Fayol as «the six elements of administration»

To test the hypothesis, sperm RNA elements corresponding to specific genes were characterized as a function of disease association.

In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go against conventional wisdom to show that each neuron functions as a collection of excitable elements, where each excitable element is sensitive to the directionality of the origin of the input signal.

According to the neuronal computational scheme, which has been used for over a century, each neuron functions as a centralized excitable element.

A first step in this field is for researchers to demonstrate that single molecules can function as reproducible circuit elements such as transistors or diodes that can easily operate at room temperature.

This dual signal allows the tentacle to form the perfect joint to bring a succulent tidbit to its mouth and shows how muscle can function just as well as bone as a structural element.

Since no viral functions are required for propagation of recombinants in bacteria, viral mutants with lethal changes in cis - or trans - acting elements can be isolated, as well as partially or conditionally defective mutants.

In this publication, under the title of «Membrane - Derived Phospholipids Control Synaptic Neurotransmission and Plasticity», the Cadiz scientists have reflected the work of years that has led them to identify a molecule, Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), as a possible element implicated in the link between the metabolic state of an organism and its cerebral function.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

Since their concern is the bad smell, Prof. Park and his colleagues naturally thought about how the human nose works and adapted its function as a sensor element.

But enzymes require trace elements such as iron to function, as the biologist Browning and his colleagues from GEOMAR and the University of Southampton described in a study that was recently published in the international journal Nature Communications.

Through Exultant Ark Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that, although much of animal behaviour has come about as the result of evolutionary adaptation to serve a straightforwardly practical function, there are elements of play that require a more joyful explanation.

Roughly 20 percent of the translation enhancing elements functioned as internal ribosomal initiation sites, again turning up primarily in non-coding genomic regions.

They identified millions of genomic regions named «avian - specific highly conserved elements» (ASHCEs) that appeared to function as CREs.

While platinum group elements and their compounds are widely used as catalysts, their other functions have not been explored very much, partly because they are expensive.

We aim to comprehensively annotate functional elements, decipher genomic codes of transcription, as well as coding and non-coding gene function during development and enhance zebrafish as an attractive developmental, comparative and disease model.

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