Sentences with phrase «imagined human concepts»

Pure evil and pure good are imagined human concepts without examples and without proof.

Not exact matches

He imagined that by inventing an alphabet of human thought — a system of characters for irreducible concepts — and then combining these in a calculus of reasoning, mathematicians would be able to solve all scientific and moral matters.

While there is general consensus that the ability to imagine a never - before - seen object or concept is a unique and distinctive human trait, there is little that we know about the neurological mechanism behind it.

In his first New York City exhibition in 2009, titled The TV Show, PEET organized the concept around characters he coined «The Luxury Leaders» and «The Resistants» — symbolic metaphors for white - collar corporate America versus the anti-materialist, subcultural underbelly.3 Considering these fragmented story lines of rebellion and subversion, alongside the fact that the artist is sometimes positioned somewhere nearby covertly broadcasting an element of live feed into the gallery space, somehow it doesn't seem a stretch to imagine a grinning PEET tucked away in a dingy basement making human lard soap, à la Brad Pitt's nihilistic Tyler Durden from the 1999 film Fight Club.

A paper that makes use of the concept of the Anthropocene — a concept predicated on the idea that human activity is a dominant factor in the state of the earth system — does not spend any time at all looking at what humans might try to do, or be able to do, about the problems it discusses over the periods it imagines.