Sentences with phrase «involves gradations»

Humor in abstraction involves gradations of the comic for which we do not yet have appropriate critical language.

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If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»
Gradations and differences are very important, and the study of human beings involves dimensions that are not relevant to the study of the natural world.
A visual experience, for instance, lends itself to description as a complex semiotic process involving transmissions and integrations of signs, or bits of information, to a central organ, the brain, and more localized processes of selection, sorting, and evaluation (i.e., gradations as to relevance of various types of information) that sometimes issue in tentative (and often only vague) interpretations.
The origination in the conceptual pole necessarily involves a primordial gradation of objects in such a way that they are adjusted in a unified togetherness of valuation.
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