Sentences with phrase «not epochal»

Considered in his full concreteness, God is temporal — but not epochal.

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Float «is not as epochal as the printed book.

We must not be confused by Whitehead's atomistic language as some of his disciples apparently are; the so - called «epochal theory of time» is atomistic only in name.

Because of the epochal theory of time, this coalescence of the universe into a new unity is not temporally extensive.

The church is not alone in facing these epochal shifts in culture.

Observation makes plain that while these droplets or epochal occasions do work in this self - centered way, yet the world does not fall into complete chaos.

This point of the knower's being the knowledge while not being aware of itself is central to the epochal theory of time, and the theory of prehension.

According to Robert Weltsch, «Buber's discovery of Hasidism was epochal for the West: Buber made his thesis believable that no renewal of Judaism would be possible which did not bear in itself elements of Hasidism.»

The epochal duration is not realized via its successive divisible parts, but is given with its parts.

2 This seems more adequate and convincing than Whitehead's theory of a biological organism's being a society of epochal subjects, where ongoing integrity, physical or personal, is the task of many actualities, not of an enduring, self - constituting subject.

11An actual entity does not endure as such, since its process of becoming is epochal in nature (it has duration, but not endurance), and every actual entity is «changeless» inasmuch as each is the self - same individual.

According to the epochal theory, time is not some absolute container within which actual entities become; rather, time is an abstraction from the succession of actual entities.

For instance, perhaps we do not have to think of one notion of time as more fundamental than another — perhaps we can find ways of conceiving of epochal time and continuous time as basically complementary.

The theory of epochal time states that the genesis of an actual occasion does not take place in physical (clock) time; it creates a quantum of physical time: in every act of becoming there is the becoming of something with temporal extension; but that act itself is not extensive, in the sense that it is divisible into earlier and later acts of becoming which correspond to the extensive divisibility of what has become» (PR 69/107).

This would merely transpose the problem of analyzing epochal becoming to another level, not resolve it.

The Badgers still haven't played anyone, but as if on cue: Iowa, fresh off that epochal cratering of Ohio State, comes to town.

It is this blanket criticism, with scant institutional memory, a wilful disregard of the shambles the Jonathan government left behind — even after a year — that passes Nigerians as unfeeling; and not able to appreciate the epochal chaos that Buhari and his government are battling with; from which they hope to rebuild the commonwealth.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

For the educators, parents, and students of this charming port city, the end of the Cold War has meant not only an epochal shift in world geopolitics, but also a drastic educational upheaval.

In early 1974, soon after he shared an all - star New Year's Day bill at St. Mark's with William Burroughs, John Cage, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Byrd Hoffman [Robert Wilson], Taylor Mead, Ed Sanders, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh, and several months before Art - Rite editors Edit deAk and Walter Robinson began their epochal evening (not yet «performance») series «PersonA» at Artists Space, Onnasch Galerie at 139 Spring Street (the first German art space to open in SoHo) booked — I know no better word — the two least commercial not - yet - performance artists in town, Jack Smith and Farina, for evening appearances.

dhogasa: Epochal changes in (precip, temp) do not answer.