Sentences with phrase «inert nature»

The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.

This approach to making uranium reactive suggests new directions for attacking the element's inert nature and may «model the principles that lead to [uranium] degradation in nature,» which remain unknown, he says.

A pure product is also near the top of their agenda and the inert nature of glass means that the consumer receives precisely the same, great tasting gin which was created by the connoisseur distillers across the country.

Not exact matches

Everything in the Jewish and Christian understanding of God would be lost if God were thought to be a static and inert being rather than the living deity who acts in nature, history, and human experience.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

We think of nature as inert stuff without any life of its own; we approach it merely as a tool to achieve human ends.

Examples of imaginable worlds that would be incompatible with process metaphysics are: a world in which the elementary units of nature were enduring substances, especially if they were inert and fully determined; a world in which space and other things existed independently of temporal processes; a world in which an absolute gap separated living and nonliving things, or sentient and insentient individuals, or else a world in which there were no sentient things whatsoever.

Now in our experience of our own subjectivity we do not discover anything like the inert brute stuff into which classical physics attempts to analyze nature.

Thus contemporary physics supports the proposal made earlier that events rather than solid particles of inert matter are the fundamental units of nature.

Indeed, to talk of «substance» here is in itself misleading; for the use of that term, despite all the protests of the neo-Thomists and others, is certain to bring us to think of God in terms of unchanging and unchangeable inert stuff — and to do that is to deny, ab initio, the possibility of a God who responds in complete faithfulness and with the utter integrity of His own nature, yet with deepest awareness and sympathy.

This notion of the inert, non-resistive and unthinking nature of the Paraiyars is indeed a stereotype posited by the caste communities.

In Descartes» day, nature was held to be composed of inert stuff with force viewed as something external to that stuff, something mechanically applied to dead bits of matter from the outside.

Newtonian physics placed this metaphysical view into question when it regarded nature as inert mass, i.e., dead matter, moved from without by efficient causality.

The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk of nature, the mineral level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient of a series of events leading up to it.

Modern physics supports us in our proposal that the constituents of nature are not the lifeless particles that we tend to imagine as tiny versions of inert chunks of matter.

Thousands of dollars of circuitry sat inert before us, and the man from Nielsen whispered urgently into his radio, then turned a hangdog face to tell us the system wouldn't work because a 300 - year - old maple was blocking satellite reception, which prompted my nature - centric Captain Planet - loving kids to scream «CUT IT DOWN!»

The work built off a seminal finding by Gao and colleagues, published in 2007 in Nature Nanotechnology, showing that nanoparticles, long believed to be biologically and chemically inert, could in fact possess enzyme - like properties.

The Girlfriend Experience Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Steven Soderbergh's clinical portrait of a high - priced Manhattan escort (played by porn star Sasha Grey) isn't always pretty — it's uncomfortable at times, frustratingly inert at others — but it feels true to life and to the less appealing side of human nature.

One is tempted to blame a 86 - minute run time, and the rushed nature of some character awakenings (Edwards's in particular) would seem to support that, but then the snail's pace of the talky, inert proceedings make the film — and Murphy — feel like its wasting its precious, limited time.

By their nature, omega -3-fatty acids are naturally anti-inflammatory, diverting inflammatory biochemical pathways to inert, non-reactive pathways

Nature merely supplies us with inert materials.

But N2 and O2 are mostly IR inert, they neither absorb nor emit IR (based upon the electrial nature of the molecule... symetrical).