Sentences with phrase «many gradations»

The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.

But that implicitly binary way of talking blurs the gradations of «goodness,» if you will.

Here's the rest of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.

A becoming is not divisible into parts, though a gradation of phases can be described.

Ford speaks, it is true, of a divine «temporal freedom,» but this freedom wholly derives from the divine nontemporal decision and thus amounts only to the temporal emergence of a nontemporal freedom: «God's temporal freedom is exercised in his integrative and propositional activity, where he fits to each actual world that gradation of pure possibilities best suited to contribute to the maximum intensity and harmony of his consequent physical experience» (IPQ 13:376; my emphasis).

No scheme of analysis could account for all gradations of relative scale, so I have begun with a simple division into contrasts of relative parity or disparity and contrasts that are discordant or concordant.

«In order to get a perfect gradation between two forms in the upper and lower parts of the same formation, the deposit must have gone on continuously acc.umulating during a long period, sufficient for the slow process of modification; hence the deposit must be a very thick one; and the species, undergoing change must have lived in the same district throughout the whole time.

The eye hails its friends far off: the cone of the mountain, gradations of white and violet in the snow, and barely moving against the distant cold, the bluejacket and green cap of a skier.

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.»

In the primordial nature, taken in abstraction from acts of becoming... eternal objects have togetherness but not gradations of importance.»

Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»

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.

Ecclesiologists tend to use these added paragraphs as their framework for articulating gradations within Church teaching, or, to put differently, the weight with which a certain teaching is proposed.

Since different races, like different breeds of dogs or horses, develop different capacities, it followed that distinct gradations in moral capacities would be found among human races.

By subtle, unnoticed gradations the presentation of old patterns of thinking slips over into twentieth - century categories and phrases.

When Whitehead says an actual entity embraces the diversities of the whole universe and «brings them into is own unity of feeling under gradations of relevance and of irrelevance» (Religion 108), he should be referring to the unity (wholeness) required to establish an actuality at transition, but is likely expressing his belief the many grow together into a unity (whole) during concrescence.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

This in turn requires the recognition of gradations of intrinsic value and the weighing up of intrinsic value with instrumental value.

For him, as for Whitehead too, dualism of mind and matter is replaced by a gradation of higher and lower degrees of experience.

The gradation of eternal objects in respect to this germaneness is the «objective lure» for feeling; the concrescent process admits a selection from this objective lure» into subjective efficiency.

Originally as the principle of limitation, the principle of concretion determined which of the eternal objects would be actualizable in the world, now each occasion actualizes itself in terms of God's gradation of values.

That aim determines the initial gradations of relevance of eternal objects for conceptual feeling; and constitutes the autonomous subject in its primary phase of feelings with its initial conceptual valuations, and with its initial physical purposes.

In Science and the Modern World Whitehead says that «every occasion is a synthesis of all eternal objects under the limitation of gradations of types of entry» (Science and the Modern World 252).

Now obviously there are all kinds of gradations and motivations behind telling falsehoods.

What is the significance of gradation, authority, order in a religious community?

As Martin Luther King, Jr. aptly said, «There are no gradations in the image of God... God made us to live together as brothers (and sisters) and to respect the dignity and worth of every human.»

Skier «The experience starts as that smelly feeling... — Alfred North Whitehead The eye hails its friends far off: the cone of the mountain, gradations of white and violet in the snow, and barely moving against the distant cold, the bluejacket and green cap of a skier.

In the foregoing there is steadily pointed out a gradation in the consciousness of the self: first came unconsciousness of being - an eternal self (III.B a), then a knowledge of having a self in which there is after all something eternal (III.B b), and under this (1 i and ii, 2) there were again pointed out gradations.

The gradations in the consciousness of the self with which we have hitherto been employed are within the definition of the human self, or the self whose measure is man.

Furthermore, the exigencies of his system required him to conceive of the initial aim in terms of single definite form: the «aim determines the initial gradations of relevance of eternal objects for conceptual feeling and constitutes the autonomous subject in its primary phase...» (PR 244).

These exceptions are not important except to caution us that whatever we say of the difference between men and other animals must be affirmed in terms of gradations and with empirical warrant.

To answer this question, we must get some sense of the kinds of gradations that can be found among souls.

This gradation, this emerging sophistication, should be noted and celebrated.

Good, in this sense, contains an extremely wide range of gradations, extending from the purely external observance of good order to the most intimate self - examination and character - formation and to personal self - sacrifice for the most sublime human values.

«But it also seems to me that there are gradations of imperfectly raised consciousness, and that in speaking of black and white we can not ignore the gray areas.»

Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.»

«Indeed, the reality of the human being for the entire span of life, both before and after birth, does not allow us to posit either a change in nature or a gradation in moral value, since it possesses full anthropological and ethical status.

I think most people recognized a gradation of responsibility.

Despite Naess's openness to Whiteheadians, the objection to any gradation in the valuation of other species is widespread among deep ecologists.

To clarify this, Whiteheadians must defend the gradations of value that have offended deep ecologists.

The differentiation between «implicit» and «explicit» ontologies is meant to be a gradation — from the statements about reality by the natural subject to those of the scientist and on to those of the philosopher.

By reason of this prior decision Whitehead is forced to interpret all those beings of higher order that manifest themselves as unities, such as living beings and humans, to be a multiplicity of entities, that is, to be a «society,» [253] or even more as a whole gradation of inter-compartmentalized «societies» and «subordinate societies.»

In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed.

373f, 377, 522, 532), a «gradation» (PR 46, 248, 315), an «ordering» (PR 46, 373.

Christian holds that «in the primordial nature of God... eternal objects have togetherness but not gradations of importance» (IWM 275).

How can God's unchanging gradation of possibility be relevant to the contingent particulars of the changing process?

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.

«Importance» describes both the «subjective aim» which directs the process of gradation and the gradation itself of the alternatives required to realize the «subjective form.»

Anything in the universe is available for prehension by a subject and, if prehended, falls somewhere in the range of the gradation of «importance for that subject (PR 148).

In an earlier letter (July 19, 1938) he cites a link with Leibniz's «gradations of awareness» to indicate the intellectual origin of his own position.