Sentences with phrase «logical system of»

«Mandatory minimums wreak havoc on a logical system of sentencing guidelines,» says Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.).

«A logical system of European alliances made all the sense in the world until the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and then everything seemed to have a domino effect,» says Naumann, referring to the event that triggered World War I.

In keeping with Honda's logical system of offering a few versions of each car with increasing standard features (as opposed to the American car makers» philosophy of offering a confusing array of options and option packages), three trim levels were available.

And yes, some of the switches and controls are arranged in a manner not in keeping with any known logical system of design.

[It] is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted» (PR 4).

The definition of material world, for instance, is «a set of relations and of entities which occur as forming the field of these relations (MCMW 13)-- a most curious definition when we consider Whitehead's later view that the world (ourselves included) is understandable as a coherent logical system of polyadic relations of actual occasions.

This is a much neater and more logical system of explanation of origin, destiny, and differences of character than are either immortality or resurrection.

Strange as it may seem and irrational as it would be in a more logical system of world diplomacy the dollar glut is what finances Americas global military build - up.

Not exact matches

Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

«A more logical usage [of zero - rating] would be if I was a cloud system backup program, if I back up your phone on the cloud, I don't need a fast internet connection to make that a feasible product.

It defines pure capitalism as a system that grows among a group of completely free individuals and discusses why it is the only logical system upon which to structure a society.

Agnostics / secular humanists believe their is no evidence that proves the existance of God therefore at this time the most rational and logical belief system would not incorporate a God.

And would I tremble to give the advice, because the logical result of such a start - new - conservative - colleges - because - the existing - ones - have - proven - hopelessly - dominated - by - leftists - and - technocrats strategy is an ideologically segregated system of higher education.

The Bible therefore does not always support speaking in the binary logical system, but also supports a continuum system of logic, as well.

Therefore God as prime mover, object of desire, and ultimate final cause must include within himself the system of formal causes, the logical structure of the cosmos, particularly if he is to be «thought thinking itself.»

It shows that Whitehead conceives of the world as a logical system and therefore believes that it is possible to view the world in this way.

Whether he consciously realized what he was doing I do not know; but I am sure that he implicitly thought of metaphysical principles as the axioms of the «logical system» of the world.

On the other hand, he was also always a mathematician since, as he clearly indicates in the 1905 article, he seems to conceive of the world as a formal logical system.5 No wonder he regards metaphysics as a possible occupation.

We should discount a minority as not being representative of either the majority or the majority's belief system — that is logical.

We recall that any logical system starts with a set of entities, as the primitive existing things within the system.

It is helpful, though, in reading the paper if one has fixed firmly in mind the general characteristics of logical systems.

According to Mays, Whitehead's metaphysics is that coherent, logical, and necessary system of general ideas whose model is a purely abstract system of mathematics and formal logic.

For instance, Mays interprets the extensive continuum as a system of logical relations by which we represent nature (PW 103/108, 106/111).

First, Gödel showed that it is impossible to prove the internal consistency of a purely formal system sufficient to encapsulate the whole of arithmetic (a feat Russell and Whitehead claimed to have accomplished in Principia Mathematica) without employing logical principles not contained in the system itself.

At the time Whitehead was writing Process and Reality idealist systems were under attack on methodological grounds, first by C. E. Moore as violating the prescriptions of common sense, then by the school of logical positivism represented chiefly by Schlick, Carnap, and Ayer.

It is the presentness of the I - Thou relation which shows most clearly the logical impossibility of criticizing I - Thou knowing on the basis of any system of I - It.

The logical and dialectical God of the theologians — the God who can be put into a system, enclosed in an idea, or thought about philosophically as «a state of being in which all ideas are absorbed» — is not the God who can be met in the lived concrete.

This suggestion «that functions of propositions are always truth - functions» (PM xiv) was made in his Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (TLP), a non-Platonic, tight - knit, precise logical system that had a tangential but critical influence on the logical positivist movement.

While the objectified facts are invested with a certain levity, no longer fully sedimented, the logical subjects as an indicative system, on the other hand, restrict the freedom of the proposition to apply to any actual entity in absolute generality.

Personal identity is a special form of genetic identity and is very different from the more strict identity dealt with in logical systems (since Leibniz first defined it as complete equivalence of predicates).

What follows from the fact that the freedom of system construction is complemented by absolute logical coerciveness in the outworking of the theorems deduced from the basis of each postulated system?

Logical necessity governs only after the rules of the mathematical system have been posited and accepted.

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

It begins with a philosophy that endeavors to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas that combines a creative and unique expression of the nature and unity of God.

That is, Whitehead modeled his metaphysical system on the axiomatic treatment of logical systems.

To counter this tendency we may on the other hand attempt to develop a more critical, descriptive, naturalistic account of the relation between mind and nature, thereby avoiding the purely logical demands of system and the self - serving rule of reason.

This is the myth of International security: the persistent belief, contrary to historic evidence as well as to logical demonstration, that states can continue sovereign and independent, while, at the same time, it is nevertheless possible to work out a system of security among — as distinct from above — them: international security.

This provides the matrix, as a body of first principles, judged as coherent and logical depending on the manner in which each proposition requires the others in systematic interconnection.2 However, as a whole, the theses of the system must be confronted with the facts of experience.

The lessons of transcendental philosophy were not in vain: his logical ability is brilliant, although one could blame Solovyev for a certain inconsistency, inner contradictions in his system.

Speculative Philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.

Unlike some sort of weird belief system, or «atheists» that many christians want to make it out to be, «science» is nothing more than the rational, logical observation and study of the world around us.

Rabbi Sacks, the author of eighteen books and a philosopher of note, responded (I paraphrase) that the universe can not provide its own meaning, just as a logical system can not prove its own premises (according to the Gödel incompleteness theorem).

«Speculative philosophy,» writes Whitehead, «is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element in our experience can be interpreted,» but they «are not dogmatic assertions of the obvious; they are tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.»

They are not logical deductions from special systems of thought.

Logical proofs are closed, self - contained systems of propositions, whereas science is empirical and deals with nature as it exists.

If you have a sane, coherent and logical point to make about the merits of your belief systems over any other than please, present it here.

It attempts to enforce a closed system of thought, that must reject conflicting claims regardless of which is the more logical conclusion — if it simply accepted evidence when it was due, it would lose all credibility, because the «word of God» can not be considered fallible.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

Presumably more preferable would he an attempt to move beyond Hegel and Whitehead in the direction of a new system which would incorporate key insights out of both philosophies hut which would ultimately have to be judged in terms of its own logical consistency and correspondence to reality.

For Whitehead, «Speculative Philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.»