«There is
no nature at an instant.
Thus since there are no instants, conceived as simple primary entities, there is
no nature at an instant.
There is
no Nature at an instant all reality implies «an advance of nature» (moving on)» (N 155, citing CN 54).
Both Bergson and the early Whitehead conclude that, to quote Whitehead,»... an abstractive set as we pass along it converges to the ideal of all nature with no temporal extension, namely, to the ideal of
all nature at an instant.
Not exact matches
Traditionally, time is totally irrelevant to the
nature of material objects, since a material particle is entirely itself
at every infinitesimally thin
instant of time.
An intellect which
at a given
instant knew all the forces acting in
nature and the positions of all things of which this world consists — supposing the said intellect were vast enough to subject these data to analysis — would embrace in the same formula the motions of the greatest bodies in the universe and those of the slightest atoms; nothing would be uncertain for it, and the future, like the past, would be present to its eyes.
Commenting on both the relativity and quantum theories, Whitehead (1925, p. 54) observed in 1925 that «
nature is nothing
at an
instant.»
It can be summarized as the belief that
nature is an aggregate of material and that this material exists in some sense
at each successive member of a one - dimensional series of extensionless
instants of time.
Chat Rooms These are valuable asset due to
instant nature, to communicate with an online member
at the time you login.
Chat rooms these are valuable asset due to
instant nature, to communicate with an online member
at the time you login.
I have been looking
at dividend funds / ETFS because I like the
instant diversification and passive
nature of the investment, but I haven't taken the plunge yet.
Grafʼs work has recently been featured in Second
Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now
at the Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and The Polaroid Years:
Instant Photography and Experimentation
at the Loeb Art Center
at Vassar College.
Having lived «close to
nature» most of my life I have come to understand that
at any given time
nature can kill me in an
instant, I do not need environmental Ice Age / Global Warming fears to instill such knowledge.
Anna Freud claimed that an infant couldn't grieve for more than
instants at a time because of the undeveloped
nature of the infant's mind (in Freudian language: the lack of ego).