Following the Lure of the Scent The Lure, Dubai / Toronto based artist Janet Bellotto's exhibition at the De Luca Fine Arts Gallery, intellectually engaging in
the infinite number of ideas that it conjures up, is at its very root, sensuous, seductive, and romantic, albeit in a self - contained and carefully orchestrated manner — meaning that despite the traditional feminine aesthetic inherent in the work — read flowers and perfumed fragrances — there is not one ounce of sentimental gush or sappiness.
When we put together the power of metaphor with the combinatorial nature of language and thought, we become able to create a virtually
infinite number of ideas, even though we are equipped with a finite inventory of concepts and relations.
Not exact matches
An otherwise intelligent, ambitious and driven entrepreneur with a seemingly
infinite number of great
ideas allows his or her vision to become clouded by listening to everyone else's opinion.
The counter-argument resides in his citation and defense
of G. J. Whitrow's argument2 to the effect that an infinitist is committed to the
idea of an
infinite number of intermediary past events which ex hypothesi ought to be able to be counted or successively synthesized (but which everyone agrees can not be), and that this very situation
of infinite intermediaries obliterates the intuitively sound distinction between actual past and potential future.
At the same time, the gene story also shows how the virtually
infinite number of possible chance combinations
of the many factors that constitute a person's biological inheritance explain and support the
idea of personal individuality and uniqueness.
To be sure, all cosmologists accept that there are some regions
of the universe that lie beyond the reach
of our telescopes, but somewhere on the slippery slope between that and the
idea that there are an
infinite number of universes, credibility reaches a limit.
Not exactly the healthiest
idea, particularly when you work at a food startup that has an
infinite number of snacks stacked in every corner
of the office.
Here's one
idea he brought up that I hadn't really considered before: technology lets us target almost an
infinite number of different audience segments with selected messages, but politics demands that we ultimately bring them all together to get something done.
And if this
idea of eternal inflation producing an
infinite number of universes is right, those
infinite number of universes could each have a different one
of these 10500 vacua, so all
of them would exist.
Eventually this
idea grew into what is now known as the multiverse theory, the notion that our observable universe is just one
of perhaps an
infinite number of cosmic domains, each with its own version
of the laws
of physics.
A person's identity is a composite picture
of one's
ideas, beliefs,
infinite longings, abstractions, glances in mirrors, personal relationships, size, height, weight and color; one's library card, driver's license, social security
number, bank account, acquired names; one's occupying one space as opposed to another, one's wearing
of certain clothes as opposed to others, one's taste in food, one's sex.