Sentences with phrase «impose systematic order»

Despite our tendency to impose systematic order on our surroundings, Troika argues, there is an inherent conflict between such deliberate planning and and the unpredictable, random, spontaneous nature of the universe.

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Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.