Sentences with phrase «objects as things»

Perceiving an object as a thing is helpful.

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It's a mixture of urban and rural landscapes, as well as close up shots of objects and growing things.

Future analytics should be more impressive — for example, software that can recognize suspicious objects (like an unattended package) or behaviour (such as a person loitering too long in a given area) and alert security personnel to check things out.

Perhaps the first thing to understand is that when LeCun discusses computer vision, it's not the same as how a person sees, although the process of teaching software how to recognize an object has some similarities.

Of course, you could immediately object that selecting artwork is not the same thing as making more substantive choices, like whether to open another branch of your business, relocate your family, or quit your job.

The dioceses and the parish churches have usually been held exempt by the courts, but general Catholic institutions, precisely as they are not churches, are increasingly being required to carry insurance that covers things to which they object: abortion for their employees, for example.

God moves things as their final cause: the aim of their growth and motion, the object of their desire.

It has been the sins of the Leviathan and Dynasau not only to make all humans as objects of exploitation and oppression, but it is also the sin to make the created things the object of the exploitation, for these sins are to turn the God's created garden into the jungle.

As Whitehead says,» «Change» is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things» (PR 59 / 92).

And then there is the problem of individual existent «things,» actualities as opposed to the formal abstract possibilities which are the eternal objects.

Indeed the metaphysical opposition of mind and inert, inanimate thing - as - object itself thereby collapses.

Thus there is no reason why perfect knowledge could not change, grow in content, provided it changed only as its objects changed, and added as new items to its knowledge only things that were not in being, not there to know, previously.

Whilst our spiritual intellect's knowing of physical things is said to need as object the uniquely knowable universal, the final object of our spiritual, intellectual knowing is proposed as the non-universal individual.

It may be objected that real possibility, insofar as it is objectified, is a slight and puny thing, hardly evidence for the power of majesty of God.

For it is only when it is plainly seen that the great purpose is the building of the universal Kingdom of God, and that the object of human living is the development of the human spirit, that the irrelevance of such things as material success becomes apparent.

Now if we assume that it is as we have supposed (and without this assumption we return to the Socratic order of things), that the Teacher himself contributes the condition to the learner, it will follow that the object of Faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

It is not a natural thing for people to draw a sharp separation between religion and politics as distinct realms, to demand responsible participation in both and simultaneously to say that the object of one (God) is the criterion for the object of the other (the exercise of power).

As Kasulis puts it in alluding to the objects of his own experience: «These are not merely things in my experience; they are my experience.

Preachers who allow themselves a playful measure of «pastoral omnipotence» over the text - as - object stand to discover things in and through it that elude their more timorous colleagues, he says.

Will and desire both require an object, but since everything is contained in God, God already «has» everything you can possibly think of, as well as everything you can't, including will and desire, all possible objects of will and desire, all things one might want to be free from, and all imaginable freedoms.

«If there be such things as feelings at all, then so surely as relations between objects exist in rerum naturâ, so surely, and more surely, do feelings exist to which these relations are known» (PP1 245).

Now, with that in view — which I think is a reasonable objection to a document which wants to be seen as, above all things, «reasonable» — why would I object to the whole thing as «obscuring the Gospel»?

While «The Back Page» is usually my favorite part of First Things, I must object to David Bentley Hart's characterization of Freudian psychotherapy as deterministic in «Roland on Free Will» (February).

That is, the form is received in matter as it is in any physical change, but also the form is received without matter, that is, it is possessed in disassociation from the sentient's material constitution.3 In virtue of this second mode of reception, the sensible thing is something more than an agent; it becomes an object for an experiencing subject — though this is not, of course, how Aristotle expressed it.

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

And when Watson observes that «there is no such thing as a pure description of a neutral object,» Barr retorts: «How amazingly original a thought!

An abstract or ideal thing that has no reference to «particular feelings, or emotions, or sensations» is what Whitehead later would define as an eternal object (see PR 44).

The objects of our ordinary experience, things such as rocks, trees, animals and persons are composites or groupings of what we have been calling occasions of experience.

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

For the subject - object relation is an assertion of ego, one's ordering the world about his subjective, personal consciousness, and as such it offers a handhold to all of the invidious evaluations that separate men from things, from each other, and from their own deepest life itself.

And here we are concerned not only with an external system of concepts embracing the object of theological affirmations but with the thing itself, with the nature of the concept as it is appropriate to the object of faith.

The good thing about all this was that students were fulfilling their lives as subjects and not as objects manipulated by a system.

The object of such love might be inanimate things, or it might be something abstract, such as prestige, success, or power.

The ultimate object of man wherein lies his greatest happiness in future life is to gain knowledge of the realities of things so far as his nature allows, and do what is incumbent upon him.

As man himself is the object of God's love, so all things are instrumental to the service of man.

But the authors lapse immediately into a discussion of the «contact - boundary,» as though there were this «thing» which separated subject from object (cf. GT 229).

FREUD While «The Back Page» is usually my favorite part of First Things, I must object to David Bentley Hart's characterization of Freudian psychotherapy as deterministic in «Roland on Free Will» (February).

Plato himself appears to have had some suspicion of this confusion when he «objected to recognizing points as a separate class of things at all»....

Yet there are things to object to in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and, lovely as it is.

The body, as was indicated, reflects excitations in order to reveal its possible action on things and the possible action of external objects upon itself.

how can we be anti-theist when there is no such thing as an object to be anti towards!!!!»..

Other creation myths have their object formed out of created things (i.e. they are made of physical matter known to man) where as God has never been seen which is true to this day.

Familial life when at its best is so ordered that the personal quality of others is augmented; they can not be treated as if they were merely objects or things to be used by one person simply to promote that person's own development.

We never object to giving to support these things as well as our own ministry of Word and Sacrament in that spot for the last 52 years.

Such different ways of conceiving it ought of themselves to arouse doubt as to whether it possibly can be one specific thing; and the moment we are willing to treat the term «religious sentiment» as a collective name for the many sentiments which religious objects may arouse in alternation, we see that it probably contains nothing whatever of a psychologically specific nature.

Such events exist wholly as objects for other things, not also as subjects for themselves.

For a thing to function as a sign it must have an interpreter for whom (or for which) an object is referred to in some respect.

Actually not every thing is equally related to the concept of knowledge and to know - ability, even though ii is also true that precisely as something and as an object of knowledge it must somehow enjoy equal status with everything else with respect to conceptual comprehension.5 The differing internal relations of the objects of knowledge to the concept of knowledge establishes the relevance of these as philosophical objects.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines metaphor as «a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable... a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.»

But if, when you give up your cell, or yield possession of this or that object or exchange it for another, you feel repugnance and are not like a statue, that shows that you view these things as if they were your private property.»