Sentences with phrase «logical concepts of»

Providing the key geo - logical concepts of context and sequence, without which the animals were so many cherries without a cake, the scheme is well explained by Peter Doyle and Eric Robinson's complementary (and, by Sod's law, near - simultaneous) article (Proceedings of the Geologists» Association, vol 104, pp 181 - 194) which gives much fuller references than the book's skimpy listing (see also vol 106, pp 71 - 78).

Not exact matches

This single concept is riddled with a plethora of logical inconsistencies.

Booboo is a tool, and Chris has no concept of logical reasoning.

In the modem era, then, the originally logical schema of substance - quality was raised to the level of the fundamental structure of all reality — with catastrophic [211] results that should allow us to recognize that in metaphysics this concept is «sheer error» (PR 79/122).

The «purely logical structures» which can replace these are the five possible concepts of the material world developed in the paper.

The concept of temporal order is fundamental to his metaphysics, whereas space - time distances are logical constructs.

I hope, nevertheless, that my comments may indicate why one person at least on this side of the Atlantic (and hence somewhat isolated from the technical expertise, vocabulary, and sometimes apparently frenetic debates of the community of process thinkers) finds in Hartshorne's work «genuine philosophic wisdom,» especially as it develops insights into the logical status and conceptual structure of a theistic understanding of the concept of God.

Bruce Wilshire points out that earlier theorists of intentionality, such as Brentano and the scholastics, missed the «logical force of the concept of intentionality» (WJP 159).

Inherent in the concept of fidelity is the logical possibility of infidelity.

In the first instance there could be reasons of a rational logical sort, reasons which challenge the coherence of the concept of God as that concept lies among the other concepts central to Whitehead's speculative scheme.

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

This simple concept is riddled with a plethora of logical inconsistencies.

But the solution to the problem of whether the preservation of all values is a logical implicate of Whitehead's principles (and whether the idea is empirically valid) is at least partly dependent on the answers that are given to these concepts: (A) «elimination» (which involves «negative prehensions»); (B) «objective immortality»; and (C) the «incompatibility of values.»

In «The Concept of God as a Derivative Notion» Christian seeks to clarify the logical status of the concept of God.57 Christian concludes, among other things, that Whitehead's view of God is «categoreally contingent, systematically necessary and existentially contingent.»

«Punctuated equilibrium originated as a logical extension of Ernst Mayr's concept of genetic revolutions by allopatric and especially peripatric speciation as applied to the fossil record.»

It is now well established that every mathematical system rests upon a basis of primitive or undefined terms, logical concepts, and postulates or axioms.

In all of these we were dealing with concepts, with the realm of ideas that must be logical and consistent.

You mean so she can continue to be confused by all the contradictions and logical fallacies of this supposedly «divinely inspired» book written by people with no concept of simple things like the chlorophyll in plants that make them green?

So, he claims, though the logical types objection is very powerful (and is devastating for classical theism), it is met by his di - polar concept of God.

He himself explains in an earlier chapter of the same book that «strict metaphysical generality can stop short of literally «everything»,» because «it is enough if a concept applies with complete and a priori Universality within one logical level» (89).

Moreover, as we learned from our earlier discussion, he can occasionally speak even of a purely formal concept like «relativity» as being in a broad sense analogical, because it has systematically different senses as explicative of the meaning of different logical types.

And yet, even for psychicalism — and this explains the qualification «partly» — psychical concepts are also different from obviously formal ideas because they are categorial, and hence universally applicable, not to entities of all logical types, but only to «concrete singulars,» which is to say, individuals and events, as distinct both from aggregates, which are concrete but not singular, and all levels of qualities, which are merely abstract (141).

The medieval scholastics, themselves largely responsible for the terminology of this doctrine, were uneasy about it: that a substance could change without the accompaniment of a change in the accidental attributes of that substance was a concept that their logical theory ruled out..

The second problem one encounters in turning to Reformation concepts of worship is that in many cases the Reformers took medieval beliefs to their full and logical conclusion.

It is also not sufficient to say that Jesus» concept of God was no philosophical theory (true as that is), and that his belief in God as the cause of all that happens did not, in Jesus» undeveloped thought, untrained in logical consistency, exclude the assumption of other active causes of world events; that the strength of Jesus» faith in God is shown precisely in his holding fast, in spite of the belief in Satan, to the thought of God as the final cause of all events.

Incoherence and coherence are here clearly distinguished in concept from the contradictoriness or freedom from it which belong to logical inconsistency and consistency, even though an essential relationship of mutual conditionality governs both senses.

Susan wrote,» I have provided you with a link to the noblest concept of reality available on this planet at this time, a philosophy that is not only logical but commensurate with modern discovery.»

I have provided you with a link to the noblest concept of reality available on this planet at this time, a philosophy that is not only logical but commensurate with modern discovery.

Here again one is reminded of Whitehead's analysis of the origin of a hitherto dominant, superficial concept of substance out of the pragmatic arrangement of reality and especially of the explicitly formulated thought that logical simplicity, distinction, and clarity may not be equated with ontological originality and depth (PR 54/69; 162/188).

Second, saying that God doesn't exist because you think the concept is childish is not logical at all; that's a fallacy of subjectivity.

First of all, it is because he believes that by making a logical blunder Aquinas has produced a false concept of God.

Logical possibility as the absence of incompatibility of one concept with another is significant only because the concepts, one by one, express aspects of the creative process.

While Whitehead identifies «importance» most explicitly and dramatically with moral obligation, aesthetic enhancement, logical precision and religious belief, he states they do not describe completely the philosophical scope or role of this concept.

Nonetheless, it is perhaps telling that Leibniz, the philosopher who offered the most logical rejoinder to Spinoza, was able to do so because, coincidentally, he was the mathematician who formulated the modern concept of infinitesimals.

Moreover, most contemporary Westerners would include minds, bodies, atoms, bacteria, airplanes, and mountains in the class of things which they know to be real; but they may be uncertain about the status in reality of God, mathematical entities, and logical concepts such as «possibility.»

On concepts, see especially Events, Reference, and Logical Form (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1978), pp. 15 ff.

In a very perceptive, but as yet unpublished, paper devoted to evaluation and to evaluating those who evaluate, Paul Weiss has called attention to the highly practical character of the theoretical work of logical analysis, thereby helping to verify Whitehead's famous dictum that the paradox is now fully resolved which states that our most abstract concepts are our best and most useful instruments with which to come to understand concrete matters of fact and practical affairs.

If you understand the shear mind - boggling size of the universe and the concept of monkeys with typewriters, it's completely logical that if life is possible, somewhere in the universe, our world and intelligence was bound to happen.

You keep dodging the crucial questions I ask you, and as long as you do this you're simply demonstrating your refusal to critical reason with concepts you've convinced yourself are «holy» and beyond the scope of logical reasoning..

As I mentioned before, the aim of Cubetto is to make programming accessible to children in preliterate years, introducing core programming concepts like debugging, the queue, and recursions, which are key elements of computational thinking (basically the process of breaking down tasks into a logical sequence of steps to reach an objective).

This is a sort of punishment concept for toddler with logical explanation for him to understand his act.

While the concepts are simple and logical, the outcomes are extraordinary: improved relationship between child and caregiver, reduction of disruptive behaviors, improved speech and communication skills, reduction of parental stress and enhanced self - esteem.

The concept of letting my infant scream in agony goes against every fabric of my being - it never made any logical sense to me at all.

Maths games for teens — a selection of logical thinking or maths concept games BBC maths skillswise — intended for adults but also useful for teens struggling with maths concepts Cool math games — a dazzling array of colours, but some good games for younger teens

Tactically, people en masse began to realize that the emotional and not logical approach is more effective, in part, thanks to popularization of the concepts of behavioral economics (Kahneman and Tversky).

I don't understand the logical connection between the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act and the concept of «supply bills».

Obviously, there would be a lot of discussion over where the burden of proof lies (you have to have proof before making a claim vs you have to be able to disprove to sanction for a claim), and I think it would differ depending on the kind of statements being made, but the idea that facts are fungible and impossible to determine is a concept that, basically, people who find actual facts inconvenient for their agenda like to claim, but has no logical basis.

He could have gone on to say that in the early 2000s, Conservative councils were anything but covert in their open destruction of the party's free schools policy, which was a logical progression of the grant - maintained concept and a flagship policy of then leader William Hague and (before there are cries of «lurch to the right!»)

Robust intelligence systems, according to the announcement, can use a variety of modeling and analytical methods, such as «analogical, statistical, and logical inference, to deal with open - ended and changing concepts and environments and to integrate possibly heterogeneous knowledge and reasoning methodologies in complementary and supplementary ways.»

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a par with pork belly futures.