Sentences with phrase «novelty which»

This was mainly because gadgets were more of a novelty which has now turned into a necessity.

These build a meter that can be spent on somewhat drawn - out finishing moves, complete with dramatic close - ups of your character's determined face (a novelty which soon wears thin).

[63] Despite opinion polls indicating a strong Labour lead, opinion polls were then viewed as a novelty which had not proven their worth, and most commentators expected that Churchill's prestige and status as a «war hero» would ensure a comfortable Conservative victory.

The other reason the Tories are so keen on open primaries is that it's a novelty which makes the party look changed.

It can be overcome locally by creative novelty which rises above external determination.

For society to advance it must be structured so as to provide a suitable environment for the emergence of novelty which must then be coordinated with the background that gave rise to it.

We have seen that the persistence of social institutions through time is due in part to a lack of conceptual novelty which through reintegration (coordination) with its environment thereby modifies the structured society.

But it is this subjective aim to incorporate novelty which lies behind all purposive adaptation to the environment.

Such a society is composed of occasions each of which is able to sum up the mental experience of its predecessors in such a way that any novelty which enters into a new occasion builds upon that which was experienced by earlier occasions.

It is then the obligation of love to save the process from issuing into decay through introducing novelty which is additionally creative and alone can advance the value of experience.

The determined character of the synthesis insures that any novelty which is actualized will be integrally connected with real conditions in the world and provides the continuity necessary for generalizations to be used in science, technology, and culture.

But Whitehead also said that the world and God are not identical; and I should interpret this utterance, along with others by him, to mean that there is in the divine life an exhaustibility which makes possible the wonderful novelty which the created order manifests, disclosing what Gerard Manley Hopkins named «the dearest freshness deep down things».

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

This argument is inadequate because the universe is a creative advance into novelty which will never cease.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

In the liturgy as well as in other departments of the Church's life there are regrettable excrescences and an arbitrary desire for novelties which must be repressed courageously and charitably.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

In any event, the Tractatus contained many legal novelties which continue today, such as the writ and the recourse of replevin.

Not exact matches

That Ron Burgundy Christmas ornament isn't just a novelty purchase — it's an example of «modernized tradition,» which, according to Trend Hunter's analysis, is an indication that younger consumers don't much care for the rigid formalities of the holiday season.

Meanwhile, the phenomenon of crypto - jacking — in which hackers hijack your computer to mine digital currency — has quickly morphed from a novelty to a big league threat.

Bathroom spray deodorizer Poo - Pourri redefined the sweet smell of success with its hit viral video «Girls Don't Poop,» which vaulted the product from kitschy novelty to mainstream sensation.

On top of that, novelty is linked to stronger memories, which, upon repeated customer exposure, can instill familiarity and positive feelings.

On my own, I broke into the novelty - gift market, which was relatively easy, because companies in that industry are always looking for new ideas.

Few construction companies pay serious attention to social media, which makes the approach something of a novelty, and it's brought in plenty of new business in the past year.

Taylor's Facebook page, which now counts more than 166,000 «likes» — in addition to the novelty of her age — garnered the attention of local news outlets and eventually major national programs including the Today show.

New ideas require creativity, which thrives on novelty and diversity.

To which Tyrie guffawed, «Well that's a novelty to say the least.»

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

The point is not that Twitter is a degenerate way of communicating, but that the Twitter phenomenon seems to be driven so strongly by the sheer novelty imposed by its form, which is actually not so tremendously novel after all.

For Whitehead «the great difficulty of philosophy is the failure of language» (MT 67) and to compensate for the defects of the linguistic tradition he saturates the rendition of his thinking with terminological novelties, which leave an impression that his work is highly stylized, but also that its stipulations and theoretical definitions make it almost impregnable to objections.

The degree to which an actuality departs from a prior entity is determined by a number of factors, the flux of occurrent sensation, the baseline activity at each phase as it is activated, the decay of prior states and the emergent novelty inherent in the becoming process.

Furthermore, neither scot nor any other ID / creationist can point to some mechanism which precludes the acc - umlation of novelty beyond some particular taxonomic classification.

With respect to antibiotic resistance, this novelty can be induced and we can trace the novelty to particular mutations arising absent gene transfer; i.e. the genes which give rise the resistance were not present prior to the mutation, they are new sequences and not simply the activation of dormant genes.

The normal interplay of habit and novelty, which we have explained in terms of the relation between the dominant occasion and the supportive occasions, is disturbed.

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

Necessarily unintelligible insofar as the very conditions for the production of novelty (viz. disjunctive syntheses of incompossibles) entail that intensive (potential) differences will always already be cancelled within the novel extensities and qualities in which they are actualized --(through the conjunctive syntheses of compossibles; in Whitehead's terms: through a demand for «balanced complexity» — the integration of incompatibilities into realizable contrasts, cf. PR 278).

But if, as Deleuze insists, that factor he calls «difference in itself» creates the requisite conditions for novelty, then the disjunction involved will be a genuinely affirmative synthesis within which «divergence is no longer a principle of exclusion, and disjunction no longer a means of separation.

Survival is not threatened by the variety of ways in which expressions of that faith introduce novelty into the process.

Instead it may be taken in the sense of the metaphysical principle of order and novelty that Whitehead's organismic philosophy requires (and which I shall discuss subsequently), or in the sense of formative causation (which will be introduced in the following chapter).

in which «novelty» can not be expressed by any «formula.»

And, as we have seen, the notion of God arises in «the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss.

For the Old Catholics, too, did not want to admit that what was new was only the present divinely willed historical form of the old which they, too, thought they ought to defend against a Church devoted to novelties.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

Spirit, personality, community individuality, psychical qualities, organic processes, each in its own way manifests a More, a novelty in quality and in structure by which it transcends its antecedents.

Thus, «universal, but concrete effectiveness» can take place by means of «hybrid prehensions» of passed events regarding their identity, forming novelty («mentality») in an immediacy of actualization, which can not sufficiently be attained by any physical causality.

(d) The essential characteristic of this time of salvation is clearly seen in Matthew 11:5 and Luke 7:22, where the signs of that time are listed, with expressions common in that epoch but which are remarkable for their powerful novelty: «the poor are brought good news».

After 340.25, he abruptly shifts to a discussion of evil in which order and novelty are never mentioned.

that is, «The world is thus [italics mine] faced by the paradox that, at least in its highest actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones,» refers, because of the use of the word thus, to a previous argument that provides the grounds on which Whitehead bases his assertion that the world requires both novelty and order.

It summarizes the main idea of that version, that is, that the universe unfolds itself through opposites, among which flux and permanence, order and novelty have been discussed.