Sentences with phrase «objects viewed from»

For example, when we learn about making inferences, I bring in an assortment of strange looking objects or pictures of objects viewed from strange angles.

Not exact matches

At the show, you can view more than 400 objects collected from his teenage years as David Jones to his death, all from the David Bowie Archive.

Waymo also produced a new radar system that has a continuous 360 - degree view, so it can track objects and vehicles usually hidden from the human eye, Krafcik said.

It depends on a certain theory of how an experience is related to its objects; on the view that if two temporal events are nontemporally experienced, they must be simultaneous; on the contention that the possibility of alternatives and of freedom is inseparable from temporal transition; and on a peculiar theory of meaning as requiring contrast.

The human mind, in Whitehead's view, is an example of the latter: «There is also an enduring object formed by the inheritance from presiding occasion to presiding occasion» (PR 167).

Certain objects of inquiry, such as sermons and histories, will probably yield a higher proportion of world view data, but important insights may also be gained from other elements.

Otherwise we shall, from the Christian point of view, remain obstinate egoists who fundamentally fight for themselves rather than for their object.

Stark also dissents from the views of two giants of sociology: Max Weber, who regarded religious consciousness as nonrational, and Èmile Durkheim, who contended that ritual, not belief, is the core of religion and that society itself, not God or the gods, is the real object of worship.

Whitehead came to his view about the nature of eternal objects from his study of logic and mathematics.

Cf. D. Emmet: «But the doctrine of the objective immortality of actual entities... in the constitution of other actual entities is, as Miss Stebbing points out, a departure from the earlier view of events as particular and transient, and objects alone as able to «be again».

Each actual entity is, viewed from this perspective, a process of emerging definiteness where the process is the decision whereby the essence of each and every eternal object is either included or excluded from positive aesthetic feeling — is either positively or negatively prehended, to use the terminology of Process and Reality.

«14 Following the assumption of simple location, 15 the cosmology derived from Galileo, Newton and Descartes persistently views the objects isolated by scientific method as though they were the fundamental units of the physical world itself.

In this view all individual entities from protons to people are centers of experience and are not simply objects for the experience of others.

And I flatly disagree with your view that separating sexuality from procreation results in children losing their rights and becoming objects.

Our Constitution, on this view, promotes an individualism that is ultimately indifferent to the object of choice because it is choice alone, and the dignity of making choices, that separates man from other forms of existence.

We must therefore, from the experiential point of view, call these godless or quasi-godless creeds «religions»; and accordingly when in our definition of religion we speak of the individual's relation to «what he considers the divine,» we must interpret the term «divine» very broadly, as denoting any object that is godlike, whether it be a concrete deity or not.

(d) As we saw from the quotation from Bachofen, mythical symbolism differs from other forms of speech in that it offers an all - embracing view of its object.

Our faith that these unintelligible objects actually exist proves thus to be a full equivalent in praktischer Hinsicht, as Kant calls it, or from the point of view of our action, for a knowledge of what they might be, in case we were permitted positively to conceive them.

Although Schmidt derives his view from the SMW chapter «Abstraction,» he evidently finds the basis for his observation in statements Whitehead made about the relational essence of eternal objects, and this buttresses my own conclusions.

Far from being nonsense that the object of perception should cause us to see it, it is a major feature of Hartshorne's world - view.

God would have to be only the potentiality for a creature's becoming a subject, never an object; and this is far from the biblical view Ford wants to support.

On the one hand the world is to be viewed from the point of view of the subject and conceived objectively, and, on the other hand, it has to be maintained in its integrity, viewed from a perspective which precedes the subject - object distinction.

«Scientific objects» are theoretical entities, in that the abstract mathematical picture they present is very different from anything which could be given in sense perception; hence the plausibility of views which only give them meaning within the context of a scientific theory.

They could not be objects of our knowledge, and even worse, from Plato's point of view, the gods who knew them would not know its, or anything in the world below.

Then when a particular situation occurs, God simply does what he had from all eternity decided that he would do in such a situation, which he had eternally contemplated as possible.1 This view has important similarities to John Cobb's exposition of Whitehead's view of God's knowledge of eternal objects, though Cobb might not wish to claim that the primordial orderings of eternal objects are conscious, as Creel claims about God's knowledge of possibilities.2

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

The correctness of the epistemological analysis of experience according to the subject - object schema must not be allowed to lead to an ontological view of objects as different in kind from subjects in any way other than the difference between past and present.

But the inability of models derived from our experience of objects like pens to deal with the microcosmic world is precisely the cause of the collapse of the old world views.

Since the Pill divorces the marital embrace from procreation, in marriage it can lead to the husband viewing his wife as an object for his own pleasure (lust).

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

And Duméry concludes, in a passage which so well betrays his thought, «In order for the affirmed object to be valued from a rational point of view, it would have to harmonize with such a view.

There is, however, no real contradiction here because Whiteheads concept of nature has nothing in common with that attacked by Merleau - Ponty — the mechanist view expressed by Descartes — and, consequently, Whitehead's notions of «object» and «causality» are altogether different from their counterparts in the mechanist scheme.

Though parts of a whole process (or aspects of the whole satisfaction of a process) may be distinguishable, they are not capable of being separated nor isolated from the whole of which they are a part.10 Coordinate division, like genetic division, is a conceptual process that focuses on aspects of an indivisible satisfaction as superject If Whitehead did believe one can prehend only a part of a previous satisfaction as a moment's «actual world» is established, while completely dismissing the rest by way of «negative prehensions,» it likely stemmed from his inadequate view of potentiality as discrete objects.

My object here, however, is not to expound or criticize the Toynbeian philosophy of history, but to secure a point of view from which to approach the theme of this chapter: the bearing of the Bible upon the historical problem of our time.

Thus, Bergson's proto - mentalism is also interpretable as the positive face of the critique of simple location.4 The fallacy of simple location is the basis for the view, in both physical and logical atomism, that the «individuality of the atom [and of objects in general] is based precisely on its [or their] ontological separation from other simply located entities» (BMP 309).

While we appreciate the impulse to protect agricultural enterprises from the objections that may sometimes arise when «tree changers» or inhabitants of non-farming lifestyle blocks lack sufficient knowledge of normal or innovative farming practices, it is our view that limiting the «right to object» in a democratic society is deeply problematic.

Your toddler is old enough to grasp the concept of object permanence — in other words, she understands that an object exists even after it's hidden from view.

The case law regarding aerial surveillance was settled decades ago when the Supreme Court ruled that viewing objects in plain view from the air but not the ground (like a marijuana patch hidden behind a high wall) did not constitute a «search» that cops need a warrant to perform.

As it departs the inner solar system, scientists are racing to study the object before it fades from view

I love the color contrast in this image, the fact that we're seeing entirely different populations of objects, and also the simple idea that this is such a strange view of the Andromeda galaxy, a huge spiral so bright and close it's easily visible to the unaided eye from a dark site.

Once he could view the objects from any angle and under varied lighting, Butterfield concluded that their ribbed structure was simply a reflection of fine layers in the rock itself rather than the regular markings of a fossil.

What actually happens is that from the vantage point of the observer, the object appears «frozen in time» when it arrives at the event horizon (and permanently disappears from view upon the horizon's expansion).

From the object's point of view, it passes the hole's perimeter and is destroyed at the singularity at its center.

This image is the sharpest view of the object ever taken from the ground [2].

Earlier this year, Tolga Ergin of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and colleagues demonstrated a version of the technology that could hide an object from view from a wider range of directions, bringing 3D cloaking a step closer.

Producing a cloak to hide objects from visible light, which has a wavelength several orders of magnitude smaller than microwaves — let alone cloaking objects when viewed from any direction — seemed a more remote possibility.

The «invisibility cloaks» being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light — both considered implausible developments when the first working invisibility cloak was demonstrated just four years ago.

The tunable dielectric and magnetic properties of metamaterials could be used in stealth technologies to cloak an object from view.

Scientists in Singapore have discovered a way to make objects disappear from view by bending light around them.

Because they can steer light around objects to hide the objects from view, such materials could be used to create rudimentary versions of invisibility cloaks — though so far all attempts are a far cry from Harry Potter's version.