Sentences with phrase «indivisible units»

Rather than being a continuous flow, experience comes to be in discrete and indivisible units.

Whitehead was convinced by Zeno - like paradoxes that process must be made up of indivisible units, «drops» or «bits» of becoming that do not themselves consist of earlier and later becomings.24 These quanta of becoming are called «actual entities.»

The becoming is atomic, an indivisible unit of time.

The human personality is a single, indivisible unit.

Each actual entity has temporal extension, but the temporal extension happens all at once as an indivisible unit.

The Forms are units, but the meanings of «unity» are two, the simply indivisible unit of arithmetic and the infinitely divisible whole of parts of geometry.

Not exact matches

Even within the Forms there must be relative nonbeing, existence not only in itself (as an indivisible and hence incommunicable unit) but in relation as a divisible whole of parts, a generic unity communicable to its species.

All big things can be broken down into small things, and it is those small things — those single units of indivisible matter — that count.

The trio concluded that the gene was an indivisible physicochemical unit of molecular size, and they proposed that a mutation involved the alteration of a chemical bond in that molecule.

Instead they walk into Midway City along with a special forces unit led by Flagg (Joel Kinnaman), who also happens to be June Moone's boyfriend, battle an army of faceless overlord minions indivisible from every other faceless movie overlord minions and lose everything that made them interesting in a swirling tornado of special effects.