Sentences with phrase «nature as a field»

Philosophy of nature as a field of inquiry ceased to exist.

The first is that prejudice continues to colour the public's receptiveness to science: Science's nature as a field of dispute and evolution makes it easy for many within the wider public to disregard its conclusions when they do not sit well with their own personal convictions.

He pulls the brilliant green pigment up to the canvas's top edge but stops short, pointing to its fundamental nature as a field for setting down visual perceptions.

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Elsewhere, digital photography is used to capture and analyze data in thousands of other fields as well, from nature photographers documenting never - before - seen flora and fauna to revolutionaries snapping and sending photos that will spark change, proving that digital photography truly is one of the most important advancements in the history of technology.

Most highly educated people who understand quantum physics and it's related fields realize that humans might not ever be able to understand everything, including the origins of the Universe, but it is human nature to look for it and to try to understand as much as we can about the universe and how everything interacts.

Very seldom has anyone within a local church treated it as a field of study and reported out its patterns of culture because they constitute an important disclosure of the symbolic nature of the group.

The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

In my field we have what we regard as «Nature's Energy Function».

I refuse to read the article based on the premise of the subject line and especially given divisive nature of how CNN is / has been conducting itself as the so - called purveyor of truth especially int he field of religion which it knows nothing about but instead, chooses to try to sway readers» opinions based on a very secularist or antagonistic approach.

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

There were three main limitations on early Hebrew morals: the field of ethical obligation was tribally constricted; within the tribal circle certain classes were denied full personal rights; and the nature of moral conduct was interpreted in such external terms of custom and ritual as to make small demand on internal insight and quality.

I was an assembly - line employee for several years, and there, despite the presence of hundreds, even thousands of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant in a field or a herdsman tending sheep, laboring in rhythm — not with nature, to be sure — but with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.

But sure, the relevant issues are more in regard to effectivity, such as that two machines with drivers can harvest a field quicker than a dozen or so men, and while a life without any work can be boring and / or decadent very quickly (and similarly such with no physical activity whatsoever), an overall system e.g. where productivity and numbers are «alpha and omega» seems to be very out of touch not only with nature.

As the beginning and the end, the Logos is woven into Eliot's symbolic discourse on open fields, dances around bonfires, rivers, waterfalls, and other aspects of nature's and culture's delights.

Seize nature and let it seize us up aloft, until our eyes burn and drop out; let our murky flesh fall off in shreds, and let our bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles.

But for the sake both of truth and continued human progress, the integrity and independence of science ought to be preserved against those who would compel it to state, as scientific fact, that something exists outside of its sole field of study, which is nature.

His work is, as he states, exclusively in the field of the philosophy of nature.

In brief, then, given the legitimacy of a field - oriented approach to the God - world relationship in terms of either Whitehead's or Hartshorne's metaphysics, one can readily provide, as I see it, an appropriate explanation for Whitehead's enigmatic remarks at the end of Process and Reality about the «passage» of the consequent nature to the temporal world.

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 thoughtAs 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 thoughtas 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 thoughtas 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

Earlier, and until about two centuries ago, there had been a main field of inquiry known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature.

Yet, given the logical problems connected with the notion of a finite actual entity somehow prehending the objective integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God (as indicated above), it makes sense to think of God's influence on the concrescing actual occasion simply in terms of divine feelings vis - à - vis objective possibilities already present in the world as a common field of activity for God and all finite actual occasions.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

Individuals in the field of coffee tasting or cupping must employ techniques of the field of sensory analysis by nature, since any coffee must first undergo sensory analysis to be defined as «specialty».

The fields of culinary science and physiology are increasingly merging as we learn more about the biological nature of taste and the perception of flavors.

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

The funny thing is, that whilst I was nibbling away at natures best stuff and chatting to fellow foodies about lifestyle choices such as ecological household items, living near farms and eating locally sourced eggs, bread and walking in the fields or even building eco-friendly homes... it reminded me of how each choice I make on a daily basis affects my body.

Back - up striker Yaya Sanogo and central midfielder Mikel Arteta both limped from the field against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Wednesday night, though no confirmation has come from the club as to the nature and severity of their injuries.

I work in the Finance field but I've discovered writing to be a passion over the last few years as the attention to detail and analytical nature cross over.

Similar to his former colleague, Jurgen Klopp, Wagner has a charismatic nature and is often described as slightly left - field.

In addition to the formal presentations, there will be book signings and a vendors area where attendees can shop for scopes, binoculars and other field equipment, as well as a range of books and other nature - related gifts.

Also maintained by the Tinley Park Park District, Vogt Woods, 6527 W. 171st St., has a shelter for picnics as well as a baseball diamond, football field, horseshoe pits, a wooded nature area, playground equipment and volleyball courts.

She has two Master's of Education, has coached and worked with hundreds of families and schools around the world to bring children to nature as the basis for all knowledge and learning, and has spent nearly 15 years working in the field.

It is intriguing that by «twisting the twist,» nature provides an additional momentum to the field causing it to accelerate as it spins.

But the researchers could use the results to apply a precise magnetic field to the cesium vapor that effectively canceled out the ensemble's original spin state and replaced it with one that corresponded to the polarization of the weak pulse, as they report in the 5 October Nature.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy density.

A nature lover there writes that «whole oat fields have sprung up along the roads and in the market squares of the little towns and villages where the horses have been fed as the cavalry passed through.»

The mathematics of inclusive fitness were so unwieldy as to be useless, he argued in a takedown of the field's elite, published two years ago in the journal Nature with his mathematician colleague Corina Tarnita and the legendary sociobiologist E. O. Wilson.

Thus, it is as unclear now as it was for Einstein whether pursuing a unified field theory will lead to real progress in understanding nature.

As Kenneth Nealson, a University of Southern California geobiologist and Jet Propulsion Laboratory visiting scientist, recently told the journal Nature: «The field is haunted by thinking you've detected life on Mars and finding that it's Escherichia coli from Pasadena.»

But I disagree with techno - evangelists such as Kaku, Eric Drexler, and Ray Kurzweil that nanotechnology and other applied fields will soon allow us to manipulate the laws of nature in ways limited only by our imaginations.

McFadden has over 90 publications (many invited) in journals such as Science, Nature, the Journal of Geophysical Research, and Geophysical Journal International, and he co-authored The Magnetic Field of the Earth and Paleomagnetism: Continents and Oceans.

Gunter eventually took a post at the journal Nature where she spent seven years as the editor responsible for manuscripts in the field of genetics.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

As they report online today in Nature Communications, superflares do seem to be produced by the same process, but they usually occur in stars with much stronger magnetic fields than the sun's.

As Freud would plumb the unconscious in his effort to «understand the origin and nature of human behavior,» so Einstein would set off on his lifelong quest for a unified field theory that would encompass all physical phenomena.

As the group notes in its Nature Biotechnology paper, this work addresses «a major barrier to progress in two - photon imaging of neuronal activity: the limited field of view.»

Along with statistics about the use of dbGaP data, the Nature Genetics report outlines the challenges facing the field, such as the increased volume and complexity of genomic data.

In the original, highly readable Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape, Brian Hayes adapts the form of the field guide to «everything that isn't nature,» as he wrField Guide to the Industrial Landscape, Brian Hayes adapts the form of the field guide to «everything that isn't nature,» as he wrfield guide to «everything that isn't nature,» as he writes.

A study led by a researcher at the IAC and published today in Nature Astronomy points to the role of the magnetic field as responsible for decelerating the formation of massive stars in the center of galaxies.

Although the nature of the electromagnetic engine powering brown - dwarf aurorae is still to be determined, the scenario of the subcorotation of magnetospheric plasma on closed field lines, powering in turn magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling currents, has been suggested as a plausible model for this case (Schrijver 2009; Nichols et al. 2012).