Sentences with phrase «more general notion»

The important and more general notion of disruption is a practice that is set to become more nuanced in the coming year.

We must start with some more general notion than that of predication.

Even as science seeks theories of high generality, so in his metaphysics «Whitehead is trying to find a scheme of the highest order of generality made up of more general notions than those found in any of the sciences — notions which are applicable to every kind of experience» (PW 30/22).

Asserting that CRLP's «contempt» extends to «a disregard for more general notions of national sovereignty and democratic self «determination» is just plain wrong.

Teachers also sometimes discouraged pupils from taking subjects that might be too difficult for them, but said this was mostly done according to person - specific subject difficulty, «as opposed to more general notions of subject difficulty».

Not exact matches

Then he mentions Tesla's stock, which recently hit another all - time high, making the company more valuable than General Motors, a stunning notion to some investors considering that GM sold 10 million cars last year compared with Tesla's 76,000.

[A] can be seen as providing a first general introduction of the two notions Whitehead is going to discuss in a more formal manner in [B], those notions being flux and permanence.

Jesus does indeed fit the basic definition of a zombie, I think you just reject the notion because of the stigma attached to the word zombie isn't normally something you hear when you think of jesus, which is why atheists and non-christians in general like to call jesus a zombie, it makes him more mythical than divine.

Thus the notion of resurrection is a way of saying that first in respect to Jesus, and then (as we shall see) in a more general sense, all materiality, all history, and all relationships which have been known and experienced, have been received by God into the divine life.

One might conjecture that perhaps as a thorough student of relativity, Whitehead felt that gravity, in accord with the general relativistic notion that it is a property of space, should more properly be folded into the second level of his hierarchy.

And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

Whitehead says this is one manifestation of energy, but he wants to use it in a more general sense — really as a more metaphysical notion — and the problem is what to call it: this «drive of the universe,» «X,» or whatever, that manifests itself as a patterning activity.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

David Smith is less inclined to think religion has been marginalized in bioethical discussion, although that may be because he works with a general notion of correlating religious concepts with key terms more generally used in public debate.

This is nowhere more vividly stated than in Psalm 82, in which the general self - serving notion of godhood is harshly rejected.

He goes on to remind us that «lawlessness of individual behaviour in the context of a given statistical law is, in general, consistent with the notion of more detailed individual laws applying in a broader context» (p. 87).

In Adventures of Ideas, Whitehead notes: «We require the concept of some more general quality -LSB-...] the notion of a Harmony of Harmonies, which shall bind together the other four qualities.

A new study reveals that police recruits and experienced officers are more likely than others to subscribe to colorblind racial beliefs — the notion that they — and people in general — see no differences among people from different racial groups and treat everyone the same.

In general, a lot of people regard threesome dating as an activities which only for bisexuals, however, as a matter of fact, abandoning traditional notions of sexuality, almost everyone wants to have a fantastic threesome dating with their partners... Read More»

While a few of my BW friends who subscribed to the general notions in black single Christian women's books have gotten married, a whole lot more are single... and still reading / praying / hoping.

A recent study adds to a growing body of literature that should put to rest, once and for all, the false notion that dogs in shelters are in shelters because there is something wrong with them: «Nothing in the prevalence estimates we reviewed suggest that overall, dogs who come to spend time in a shelter (and are not screened out based on history or behavior at intake or shortly thereafter) are dramatically more or less inclined toward problematic warning or biting behavior than are pet dogs in general.»

It's a powerful if elusive notion, and the three artists shift it to a more general existential level in intriguing ways.

In the Charter terminology, the notion of «principle» points towards a more open obligation of the public powers, as it would not define an individual legal situation, but general topics and results which condition the actions of all public powers (para 50).

However, our findings are consistent with the notion of a general emotion dysregulation factor (Silk et al. 2003; Steinberg and Avenevoli 2000), and are in line with findings that most forms of psychopathology include dysregulation in more than one discrete emotion.