Sentences with phrase «logical systems as»

Drawing its name from a 1737 book of medicinal plant illustrations by Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal sees all logical systems as irrational - creating oddities and strangeness as they constrain and organize.

Through compulsive patterning, Jane subverts and queers logical systems as a means of ordering the universe.

We have identified such a logical system as an ever - widening series of reciprocal final causations that have corresponding material, formal, and efficient causes.

Not exact matches

Known as the amygdala, this system sends alerts to neural pathways that comprise the fear circuit, bypassing the prefrontal cortex where logical thinking occurs.

This is why you want to appeal to your prospect's emotions, which are determined by the brain's limbic system, not the logical, fact - finding cortex as many people believe.

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.

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.

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.

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

Being defined as true within a narrow mathematical or logical system doesn't mean the statement is true in a broader context.

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.

Triangles, mathematical relations, logical systems, groups, rings, spaces, etc. are all eternal objects or can be viewed as eternal objects through their ordinary expression in mathematical or logical symbolism.

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.

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).

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 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.

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).

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

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).

But within his scheme there is not, as for Hegel, a logical necessity that the categories remain fixed in certain dialectically related patterns so as to constitute a system or organic whole.)

And yet, paradoxically, that same commentator speaks, somewhat dismissively, of metaphysical systems like Spinoza's as depending on the generalizing of metaphors («logical doctrines and linguistic analogies» — 6: 218f).

He defines it as»... the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.»

«3 Even Whitehead, who in the above significant passage reduces all harmony to «logical» and «aesthetic,» says only that the «system of things includes» these, and elsewhere, as we shall see, he refers to others.

The reasoning behind this system is quite logical — a team is likely to play harder after a loss especially as they look to avoid digging themselves in a deep hole for the series.

Those designated streets may be intended to provide logical connections to the system, but perception is as important as reality when it comes to traffic volume, Kenny said.

In this way, MacMillan takes the reader through a logical and persuasive account of the outbreak of the war — providing you with an understanding of how both the alliance system and prevailing ideologies interacted with the events leading up to the outbreak of the war in such a way as to make seemingly unintelligible developments comprehensible.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

And as we look for permanent funding for our transit system, a shared financing system is a logical step to prevent not just summers of hell, but years of chaos.

Celsius — as any number of foreigners will argue until they're blue in the face — is the simpler and more logical system.

But had Galileo followed the results of his observations to their logical conclusion, he should have backed another system — the Tychonic view that Earth didn't move, and that everything else circled around it and the Sun, as developed by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the sixteenth century.

We hope that this result will accelerate the automation and miniaturization of gel electrophoresis, which in turn can make medical diagnoses and DNA sequencing cheaper, faster, and more reliable,» says Assoc. Prof. Nathaniel Robinson, leader of the research group, on their «work as a logical extension of previous studies on conducting polymer electrodes in electrokinetic systems.»

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.»

Instead, astronomers decided to make a logical change to the system: if a star turns out to be a binary star, we keep the catalog number, but call the two stellar components as A and B.

Since the body functions as a whole, it is logical that when one hormone or part of the endocrine system is suffering, the other would be affected as well.

Asana options: Select poses that activate the hypothalamic - adrenal pathway (HPA axis to activate the parasympathetic nervous system) such as cat / cow, twists, heart opening and poses that enhance connections bringing balance between the cortico - limbic pathway (balancing the logical and emotional brains) such as sun salutations, warrior, mountain pose.

It sounds only logical that the digestive system, which is the biggest system in human body, affects our brains as well as other parts of our bodies.

Think of this from a logical perspective... the human digestive system evolved over a period of approximately 1.9 million years (our ancesters homo erectus & neanderthal, as well as current homo sapiens) eating a combination of raw and cooked food that was cooked with either fire or hot water, not microwaves.

The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.

Making Waves Academy adheres to a discipline system based on immediate logical consequences as well as opportunities to reflect on infractions of the student code of conduct.

As the body of national discipline research has grown, school systems around the country have started recognizing the logical inconsistency of pushing students who need to learn out of the schools that provide them an education.

The number and variety of functions are probably just as complex as those offered by BMW, but somehow the Acura system seems more user - friendly, more logical in everyday use.

The graphics are clear, but the menu system isn't quite as logical as the BMW's similar set - up and, overall, the Alfa trails its rivals for infotainment.