Sentences with phrase «not by abstraction»

Knowledge of the real is not by abstraction of the form from the material substrate, but by the recognition of the true - and also the good, the meaningful and the joyful - embedded and embodied in the material existence.

In the theory we are offering, since knowledge is by intuition and perception, not by abstraction of only part of the singular real, this ultimate universalism of the nature as sort or species, is said to be a singular real and also a concept defined within a distinct limit of formal variability, both as real, and also as concept.

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What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

The Frenchman's lessons, as summarized by Poulos, are sometimes woolly — the difference between «performing our autonomy» (bad) and «experiencing our freedom» (good) is not intuitively clear to me — but nevertheless are provocative in the way that abstractions can be.

However, he does not relinquish his basic doctrine that time is in nature and while allowing time to have formal aspects by abstraction, he does not equate it with a lifeless form (MT 127).

We have here a reversal of Aristotelian abstraction not unlike that sought by Hegel, but one accomplished by means of a different, nondialectical reformulation of logic.

[1] Not only do God, angels and men think analogously but also men, sentient beings bound to knowledge by abstraction, approach various sciences in ways that are complementary rather than opposed.

The idea of metaphysics in general can not be grasped in abstraction by a purely formal definition unless we allow this abstract idea to sprout determinations of its own in the shape of particular metaphysical problems.

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

«55 Lowe claims Bergson has nothing like the method of extensive abstraction, which I have suggested earlier is not only false, but chances are Whitehead even took the idea for extensive abstraction from Bergson, apparently both having been «influenced» (in my sense of the term) by one of William James» insights.

Yet, for the past decade; the organized ecumenical movement has been viewed with indifference, if not suspicion, by Christians who have preferred to cultivate their personal spiritual gardens, to pursue various sorts of denominational consolidation and reorganization, or to wrestle with the relation of faith to social issues in abstraction from the struggle for the integrity of the social reality of the church.

But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.

Thus we hold that creative synthesis, as such, is then not subject to localization, and thus without contradicting the current laws of physics God is free to participate in the creative process across the entire universe, because God's contact with the world is not mediated by scientific abstraction and is therefore not subject to the restrictions of a local, postprojective theory.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

It is correct that we can not experience as ours wholly unthinking, unmediated physical feelings; it is only by abstraction that we can talk about the mere feeling aspect.

The novel and novelty are therefore not here explicable by means of more universal abstractions.

Dillard recognizes this unhappy position: «By those lights, there is not order anywhere but in our brains, which are uniquely adapted for inventing and for handling complex abstractions....

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

From this analysis emerged Whitehead's own interpretation of philosophy, whose job, as he saw it, was not to continue to carry further the discrimination made by our consciousness, but rather, conversely, Whitehead required that philosophy connects the later abstractions of consciousness with the original totality of experience (PR 14f.

To be sure, we are to lose ourselves - but in face - to - face service to persons who are known to God by name, not in thralldom to impersonal abstractions that are known to nobody.

Mass Debater, hawaii, Unfortunately, doing right is an abstraction for many, if not all, but doing right by one another, this is what brings a loving, and peaceful and a prolonged life doing righteously among us all, and until then well, people will endure sufferings from in difference, greed, imposed poverty, sickness, hate, war, perversion, stealing, etc..

Whitehead's «method of extensive abstraction» is used not only in his early writings in the philosophy of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract from the complexity of the relations which comprise the datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis of uniformity in nature.21 It is the sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial point for further investigation.

This makes sense of Hartshorne's contention in his chapter «Abstraction the Question of Nominalism,» that the novel forms emergent in a creative event are not determinate before the event but become determinate by decision in the event; to deny this is to deny any real meaning to creativity.

Therefore, a person could not know anything about a particular thing other than himself by knowing only the categoreal obligations in himself or in abstraction.

Not only do we fail to recognize our epistemological limits by generalizing abstractions, we also unconsciously generalize our individual finite perspectives into an infinite universal reality (MT 42 - 43).

Similarly, Voskuil contests Oomen's claim that the unity of God is determined by a single divine aim arising out of the non-temporal valuation of the divine primordial nature: «a constant aim is only an abstraction from actual aims, not an actual aim itself.

It is increasingly difficult to assign any actual content to Niebuhr's distinction between intellectual work that is done in theological schools, guided by love of God and attending to its objects in their God - relatedness, and intellectual work that is either not guided by love of God or, when it is, always attends to its object in abstraction from its God - relatedness, as must be done by definition in a secular college or university.

It can not be broken down for further analysis except by forsaking the realm of real things for the realm of abstraction.

He surprised his questioner by replying «No» and added that there was always a risk in Catholic and Protestant theology of making Christ too abstract and an «abstraction» does not need a mother.

My case here has been that conservative jurisprudence can take a gentle turn, with steps not the least esoteric, not the least encumbered by foggy abstractions.

As Mr. Hutchings spreads his wings, he is presenting an opportunity for listeners to fall in love with a sound that's got the timeless assets of jazz — rebellion, collectivity, emotive abstraction — but doesn't feel weighed down by its own past.

«The problem can not be solved by just tying scientific abstractions to classroom examples; education students need sustained practice in making those connections.»

The word author stems from authority, automatically you assume a position by design or abstraction that you should be taken seriously.Stand and deliver show your worth on paper not Just word count, readership is king and platform the altar, minister your product with conviction and the World may become your choir.

GraySpace Gallery 219 Gray Ave Abstractions: 2 Woman Artists, abstract paintings by Dahlia Riley and Peggy Ferris, a simple play of color and rhythm in a visual melody that words can not describe, involving a mix of intention, intuition and chance.

By the way, Jimmy - Given what Chris Roberts says here about not liking video game abstractions like lives / score counters, that really, really puts the combat sim intro of Wing Commander in perspective - must have seemed like a radical move at the time!

Let's have a chat about 8 - bit Adventure Anthology Volume 1 by General Arcade and Abstraction Games because really there isn't much else I'd want to GO →

They mark a revival of abstraction tempered by allusions and digital media, the kind that led to at least half a dozen coordinated summer group shows in 2011, although not simply a return to the past.

2016 Your Face In The Mirror Isn't Your Face, Similar To Plastic Silverware, curated by Torey Thornton, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA The Inaugural Exhibition, Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland Confronting the Canvas: Woman of Abstraction, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL

It is too diverse, too much a collection of competing voices to be pinned down precisely, in terms of what it could be said to stand for; however, by generalising wildly, it might be possible to say that it represents a point around which certain attitudes towards abstraction have coalesced: one being, that the attempt to build on the discoveries of Modernism is still worth making; and another, that any such attempt can not be reductive, only expansive, ruling nothing out in terms of form, colour and material.

George McNeil was not among the most well known abstract expressionist painters, but he was in the thick of it in the 1940s and 1950s, showing his brash, bright, gushing abstractions alongside work by de Kooning and Pollock.

Curator Mark Ormond has organized «Summer Abstractions» gathering paintings, prints and sculpture by abstract artists at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Gallery, 1288 N Palm Ave., Sarasota.

In this way, abstraction is not pure, but informed by personal and societal concerns.

This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!

THE career of 52 - year - old Los Angeles artist Lavi Daniel has been marked by constant change, so when his work appeared in not just one but two solo shows last month, it came as no surprise that he was once again refocusing and refining his vision of modern abstraction.

Painting, in particular, illustrates both representation and abstraction in very simplistic terms — by what is recognizable and what is not.

De Kooning never abandoned the human form, Pollock sought (and failed) to reappropriate it after his signature drip paintings, and Gorky's abstractions, those lyrical elisions of biomorphic shape and washy veils of pigment, are nothing if not figure painting by other means.

I can't see the ironical Lyrical Abstraction of Gerhardt Richter of the last few years, without immediately thinking of William Pettet, although Pettet predates Richter by more than a decade.

The second nests these ideas about abstraction and the sculptural in an emphatically feminist argument, one that asserts that the production, display, and reception of such art has been shaped by the personhood of the artists who tended to practice it, and by the sexist social and institutional conditions those individuals faced under modernism.

... You'll see that the usage of color, the sheer abstraction and almost dynamism of the works by the female artists — I mean, you can't help but respond.»

Philip Guston infuriated almost everyone by abandoning abstraction in the late 1960s, and he would not have had it any other way.