Sentences with phrase «nature as a frame of reference»

Whitehead's endeavors to resolve questions of becoming began with physical nature as a frame of reference and an event as the primary datum in the construction, functioning, and form of nature, with the time factor of space - time constituting one of the major expressions of the relation between events.

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Certainly, in so far as he confesses his faith in God he is committed to a belief in the One who may properly be called supernatural and superhistorical — for God is not to be located in the spheres of what, by the use of certain limited and limiting frames of reference, we call nature and history — but such a belief does not relegate God to some alien sphere of splendid isolation and inaccessibility.