Sentences with phrase «more of a continuum»

Like I said, they're both useful and they're actually on more of a continuum than people appreciate.

You may lean towards permissive parenting, but most parents have more of a continuum of parenting styles depending on the situation, age of the child, personality of child and parent, or even the parent's stress levels on the day.

We are suggesting that school performance is considered on more of a continuum, rather than the «all or nothing» approach of a single threshold.

People just don't seem to care about the distinction, games have more of a continuum of gameplay than strict feature divides between hard categories, and I think that's a good thing.

Or maybe it's more of a continuum — some things are more «social objecty» than others.

Not exact matches

To see what the new balance of power will look like in the coming years — and what it looks like right now — Fortune interviewed more than three dozen executives at companies across the health care continuum, along with entrepreneurs, doctors, patients, and other experts.

We used a combination of commonly used coding systems to create a rural - urban continuum, relying on the Department of Agriculture's Beale Code and Nielsen's Designated Market Area (see Methodology section for more information).

A government which systematically and publicly seeks to buttress its political legitimacy from Christian Bibles, oaths, clergy, and prayer, in continuum with more than a millennium of political leaders within Christendom, is not acting «neutrally» among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

Any god who could influence a person's thoughts could even more easily light up the sky with glowing letters of holy text, yet there is nothing supernatural in origin influencing anything in this continuum.

More precisely, from the standpoint of conceptual processes, the continuum is a transition from a category (whole) to an instance (part) where the latter is the basis of another transition.

What he fails to spell out in detail here but indicates elsewhere (e.g., PR 96-98/147 -150) is that the extensive continuum or, more specifically in terms of our cosmic epoch, the space - time continuum is not just a single overarching community of actual occasions but an interlocking network of communities or societies of occasions, each of which possesses its own laws and proper dynamism.

There is a continuum from one kind of research to the next (which is why people became even more nervous when they heard that monkeys had been cloned, since monkeys are presumably closer to humans than are sheep).

Moreover, by emphasizing the notion that personality was the sum total of its constitutive relationships and was subject to the interpersonal forces at work in a given field of energy, Sullivan was expressing in psychological terms the more complicated notions entailed in Whitehead's discussion of the extensive continuum.6

It is the reality of what is potential, in its character of a real component of what is actual» (PR 103; italics added), We need now a clearer grasp of the nature of this potentiality and if we really understand what Whitehead means in this last sentence, when he refers to the character of this potentiality as «a real component of what is actual,» then we will understand the nature of the extensive continuum much more clearly.

And it calls for a more precise response, though in this exchange we will restrict ourselves to only one of the issues raised, that concerning regional inclusion and the extensive continuum.

But Whitehead can also speak of tile extensive continuum as having more particular properties that limit it to our own cosmic epoch.

Therefore, this society, the extensive continuum, lays down, through the massive social inheritance of its myriad generations, the first, most general limitation upon general potentiality: the limitation that each generation of actual occasions, no matter what its more special characteristics of order, shall at least exhibit the general properties

There is no more reason to suppose that he is being weak - minded on this point than when he denies dimensionality as a necessary characteristic of the extensive continuum.

In Adventures of Ideas he comments more than once on Plato's recognition of the peculiar obscurity of the notion of the receptacle, which is the equivalent in that book to the extensive continuum of Process and Reality.

When we consider the vastness of the universe, it would be rash to ascribe to the entire continuum anything more than very general properties of extensiveness and divisibility.

Until the middle of the eighth century Israel's future, while uncertain and often highly insecure, could be seen as in continuum with the present, as holding in prospect essentially more of the same.

The modernization perspective also suggests that a kind of wholesale movement in the world has been going on for some time — movement along the continuum from less modern to more modern.

Individual members of the family system become more capable of interdependency (being independent yet connected) as both the individual and the family system mature along the same continuum.

In an earlier study of preaching in the Federal Republic of Germany, Osmund Schreuder examines listeners in terms of a six - point continuum from heteronomous, group - oriented, duty - bound people, to those who are more autonomous and cosmopolitan.

Evangelical voters, it turns out, are a more sophisticated bunch, judging candidates on a broad continuum of considerations from their personal faith and character to leadership attributes and electability.

But if the Space - Time continuum is now generally accepted as the only framework within which our thought can continue to progress, it becomes the more necessary that we should agree upon the nature and general direction of the flow on which we are borne.

Although they, of course, become ingredient in some spatiotemporal loci, they are essentially outside the spacetime continuum, being no more bound to one spatiotemporal locus than another.

Second, the extensive continuum, of which spatiotemporal extensiveness is a more specific determination, is a «real potential» factor of thc universe in the Whiteheadian cosmology as opposed to absolute space and absolute time continua as real and actual things comprising the universe in the Newtonian cosmology (PR 113f; cf. 101 - 06).

Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).

More to the point, Newton's «Scholium» which introduces the notions of «absolute, true, mathematical» space and time, and «relative, apparent, common» space and time (PNP 6 - 12), makes clear that absolute space and absolute time continua are thought to be necessary for a satisfactory theory of dynamics, that is, a theory of the forces which determine • the motion of material objects.7 The main idea in Newton's position is that not all physical frames of reference are suitable for satisfactory analysis of the motion of material objects; in fact, no physical frame of reference is completely suitable for this purpose.

As the «one relational complex in which all potential objectifications find their niche,» (Process 66) for Whitehead the extensive continuum certainly corresponds to the breadth of vision of the divine primordial nature, even as the space - time continuum as a partial realization of the extensive continuum corresponds to the more limited character of the divine consequent nature here and now Thus, even though Whitehead does not make explicit use of field - oriented imagery to describe the God - world relationship, the concepts are at hand to sustain that line of thought.8

And this radical novelty is more than the occupation of a new region in the extensive continuum.

But until the eighth century the future could be seen in continuum with the present, holding in prospect essentially more of the same, or even, in the prophetic view, the restoration of Yahweh's lost order.

The point is a moot one, and never more so than recently, in view of deep work done on the continuum hypothesis, on questions of consistency, and so on.

Indeed, if we remember the distinction between pure and hybrid prehensions, it is «more natural» to require mediated objectification only for the physical poles of occasions) 1 «For the conceptual pole does not share in the coordinate divisibility of the physical pole, and the extensive continuum is derived from this coordinate divisibility» (PR 469).

I'm not saying it's not possible for sexuality to shift (studies suggest that women's sexuality may be a bit more fluid, for example, and as we've discussed in the past, sexuality exists on something of a continuum).

According to Reed, «evangelical voters, it turns out, are a more sophisticated bunch, judging candidates on a broad continuum of considerations from their personal faith and character to leadership attributes and electability.»

Female consumers represent a driving economic powerhouse, controlling 65 %, or approximately $ 20 trillion annually, of global spending and more than 80 % of U.S. spending, according to the Harvard Business Review and the Continuum's Women and Children Research Group.

I will say this: As with most things, the farther toward the science end of the continuum you fall, the more accurate you're likely to be.

Breast versus bottle doesn't need to be a dichotomy — think of it more as a continuum.

Abuse lies on a continuum, and abusers tend to use more than one type of abuse to control their victims.

«We could not be more excited to partner with Mercy, as our mission to create a culture of care, seamless integration with the broader health care continuum and effortless patient experiences in urgent care is in complete alignment with what Mercy provides to each of its communities,» said Todd Latz, CEO of GoHealth Urgent Care.

So, I'm calling on all expecting moms: Take a deep breath and give yourself a mindful moment — and ideally many more — and some space to merge both ends of the continuum.

«Although intrauterine experiences can exert influence on the infant's subsequent development, the experiences it has during the ten months or so after birth are of greater experience... a continuing symbiotic relation between mother and child designed to endure an unbroken continuum until the infant's brain weight has more than doubled.»

Some kids naturally sleep more — there's definitely a large continuum — and that's great, but if you are interested in reading more on infant biology and sleep, I recommend Dr. Helen Ball — I have a piece of hers on here as well which might be of interest: http://evolutionaryparenting.com/bed-sharing-and-co-sleeping-research-overview/

Presented «Impact of Birth Practices on Breastfeeding,» Restoring the Mother - Baby Continuum After Birth,» «Leave «Em Wanting More,» and «Ethical Issues for the Lactation Consultant.»

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, writes in Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple, these types of milk «reflect a continuum of changes that occur after birth as the mother's hormones shift and her breasts begin making more milk.»

He warned that there could be more use of plastic bullets, explaining that «you have to go up the continuum.»

Women in nontraditional fields are especially prone to experiencing a continuum of harassing behaviors, from behaviors likely to be seen as harmless by male colleagues, like mild flirtation and sexual jokes, to more obvious acts like inappropriate touching and repeated requests for dates or other favors.

But the real world seems more slippery: a continuum in which one variety of life flows seamlessly into the next.