Sentences with phrase «infinite series of»

Skill Inheritance allows players to make an almost infinite series of character builds to create their very own team and team synergy.

It is easy for a court to misconstrue esoteric terms like «goodwill,» but it seems unlikely that an expert could deny that fair market value implies a hypothetical sale, or that valuation is the net present value of an infinite series of annual profits.

@greg goodman: The ratio of those two frequencies and amplitudes is predetermined by your choice of linking them in ratios of the supposed saw tooth: an infinite series of which you retain just TWO components.

The ratio of those two frequencies and amplitudes is predetermined by your choice of linking them in ratios of the supposed saw tooth: an infinite series of which you retain just TWO components.

«It's an endless, infinite series of feelings.

Skill Inheritance allows players to make an almost infinite series of character builds to create their very own team and team synergy.

The fatal crash was the sum of an infinite series of «ifs,» tracing back to if life had never evolved on Earth in the first place.

The first reason is the historical one due to the Second World War and the infinite series of conflicts that took place in the last century.

In 1655 the English mathematician John Wallis published a book in which he derived a formula for pi as the product of an infinite series of ratios.

This is what she calls «causation in a Zeno universe,» referring to the paradox of the moving arrow which is simply an infinite series of motionless instants.

The infinitesimal monads of Leibniz thus would no longer require God and the principle of sufficient reason to differentiate themselves because infinite series of numbers would arrange themselves naturally into Cantor's transfinite ordering.

In his discussion of «Achilles and the Tortoise,» Whitehead recognizes the logical possibility of an infinite series of acts of becoming within a single second (PR 107).

It is the essence of God to move the world toward new possibilities, and his being is «complete» only as an infinite series of creative acts, each of which enriches, modifies, and shapes the whole society of being.

[14] Many 19th - century philosophers advocated an eternal universe, conceived of as an infinite series of cycles (Stanley L. JAKI, Science and creation: from eternal cycles to an oscillating universe, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1974, p. 309 s, 311 3, 319 - 322, names, in particular, Schelling, Engels and Nietzsche).

Apart from the initial conviction that knowledge is consummated in communion the dialectic of interpretation does not climax in transcendence but only reversal, in an infinite series of reversals: the antithesis simply becomes a new thesis, which is displaced by a new antithesis, ad infinitum.

We may be confident that a society based on such coordination would be made up of an infinite series of joyful relations to each other.

In other words, we do not deny the possibility of an infinite series of causes stretching back in time.

What is impossible is an infinite series of causes at work here - and - now, in such a way that every cause, in its very action, would be dependent on another cause.

Well Nick, would you be so kind as to inform us «dims» how the universe could have an infinite series of causes with no beginning?

It is impossible to have an infinite series of causes, since that can not account for the very existence of the causal chain.

It is entirely possible that this is just the latest in an infinite series of big bangs and «big crunches» where the Universe ultimately collapses back in on itself, only to «Big Bang «again; our Universe may be one of an infinite number in a multiverse; or time itself may have been created in the Big Bang.

But if our science establishes an infinite series of multiverses, a decision tree for each of our decisions must also exist.

Avoiding infinite regress, there couldn't be an infinite series of causes for our physical universe, so whatever this cause was, it was eternal and un-caused.

Avoiding infinite regression, this physical universe could not have had an infinite series of causes because an infinite series of causes with no beginning is a contradiction.

The cause must be itself uncaused because an infinite series of causes is impossible.

You said, «The cause must be itself uncaused because an infinite series of causes is impossible.»

Since the infinitist must hold that there is an actual event O which is infinitely distant from any arbitrarily designated present B, we may take the existence of O as logically positing an infinite number of intermediaries between O and E, and we can then ask how an infinite series of» intermediary events, one after another, could be instantiated and exhaustively enumerated so that we finally reach E.

For example, take the statement: «The cause must be itself uncaused because an infinite series of causes is impossible.»

In other words, without a cause, even an infinite series of cause and effect can not exist.

Not exact matches

But «Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,» last year's entry in the series, has fallen far short of its predecessors.

Denver, Colorado's Infinite Monkey Theorem, a partner in CMI's video storytelling series, joins a growing list of wineries at the forefront of the canned wine trend.

As Craig remarks, this is nonsense, because if the series of past events were potentially infinite, the past would have to be finite and growing in a backwards direction (K 204).

He argues that the set of past events is actually infinite, while the series of past events is potentially infinite.

The paradox of Achilles and the tortoise simply gives us a convenient and commonsensical way of generating an infinite series like the series of fractions described above.

The general implication of generating such an infinite series is that any process taking place over a continuum can not be accomplished, for this would mean successively achieving an infinite number of states or positions in that process.

Focusing on the second proof, I question Aquinas» assertion that an infinite ordered series of causation is impossible.

The B - series side of time taken alone will land us in Zeno's paradoxes because the B - series leads to isomorphism with the mathematical continuum and so to infinite divisibility.

Yet the subjective immortality arising from his own position on God's retention of the occasion's immediacy would rule out any infinite or unending sequence of new occasions added to the former temporal series, since the locus of subjective immortality would be the divine concrescence.

This series of emails will give you hope for your future and reveal to you the infinite love, grace, and mercy of God for you.

The direction is wrong: Zeno can take a space and divide it into an infinite number of segments, a self can have a series of impressions, and concrete experience can be divided into its parts.

Ramsey's illustrations of supposedly self - authenticating disclosures in science are almost invariably taken from mathematics: one suddenly «sees the light» in looking at a geometrical theorem; «the penny drops» as one grasps the significance of the sum of an infinite convergent series, etc..

God is revealed in the cosmic disclosure which may occur at some stage as the pattern of models is developed without end, just as there may dawn on us that to which an infinite convergent series points, as its terms are endlessly developed.22

Second, there are other alternatives; (i) the Universe we live in is one of an infinite number stretching back in time with no start in time, but a series of expansions and contractions; (ii) we are one of an infinite number of universes in a multiverse.

I understand the nothing your talking about; the problem with a universe out of nothing is it also is a series of infinite regression.

These «many dissections of a given region» (PR 452), these dissections of a region into segments or surfaces or volumes as well as into points, reveal «the only relations which are interesting,... those which if they commence anywhere, continue throughout the remainder of the infinite series» (PB 455): monadic relations, dyadic relations, triadic relations, tetradic relations.

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful relationships with an infinite number of people.

Historians have long known about the work of the Keralese mathematician Madhava and his followers, but Joseph says that no one has yet firmly established how the work of Indian scholars concerning the infinite series might have directly influenced mathematicians like Newton and Leibniz.

Two British researchers challenged the conventional history of mathematics in June when they reported having evidence that the infinite series, one of the core concepts of calculus, was first developed by Indian mathematicians in the 14th century.

He did this by contradiction, logically: He assumes that these infinite sets are the same size, then follows a series of logical steps to find a flaw that undermines that assumption.

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