Sentences with phrase «of complex»

I have sat in living rooms and homes of many of these complex cases.

Charity was not something for me, privately, to perform, but an entire network of complex reciprocity.

And so this lengthy survey of the complex interaction of animate and inanimate creation runs on.

Preprojectively, we see from Whitehead's analysis of the survival of complex resilient systems that the Category of Transmutation must apply across the serial evolution of a nexus.

One solution to the problem of complex resilience, says Whitehead, occurs by appeal to the Category of Transmutation.

While not necessarily taking a particular position, these two do illustrate and, in the first case, compound the array of complex and confusing discussions of drunkenness, sin, and the uncontrolled use of alcohol and drugs.

Doubtless many aspects of those complex special aims have little systematic import.

«The Cathedral enables many to engage with different dimensions of this complex story.

It is more basically the tuning of the complex discourse of a congregation so that the gospel sounds within the message of its many voices.

Consequently some further advance in our understanding of complex human events should be possible.

2) the components (e.g. B,D - sharp, F - sharp) of any complex eternal object (e.g. B major) in the hierarchy are also members of the hierarchy.

He begins his pulsating, momentary existence as an individual from a set of complex impulses derived from the ongoing energy of past events as they objectify themselves into the present.

But for me the greatest difference between Thomas Aquinas» Cosmological Argument and any and all arguments from design comes from what all the advocates of design admit: that the candidate for the Intelligent Designer could be, at least theoretically, just about any supra «human intelligent manipulator of complex artifacts, from outer «space aliens to Al Gore's Mama Gaia.

The fourth distinctive characteristic is a biological organism that can not survive unless sustained by the resources of a complex culture, therefore an organism that has evolved not like other organisms by eliminating the unfit in the struggle with the physical environment, but by eliminating those organisms unfit to absorb and sustain the complexities of a culture progressively accumulated through the sequence of many generations.

This is a black - and - white view of a complex issue.

I see the mental as a function only of a complex relationship» (footnote to p. 465).

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Q. 2 Likewise, we know that life on Earth evolved over the last approximately 3.5 billion years and likely began in a planet wide «organic soup» of complex organic chemicals in the primordial oceans, in an increasingly well understood process.

Out of a complex of such generalizing tendencies, finally, «is differentiated the particular actual universe of existence in which we happen to be» (6.208).

Sherburne distinguishes four phases in the concrescence of an actual entity — the phase of conformal feelings, the phase of conceptual feelings, the phase of simple comparative feelings, and the phase of complex comparative feelings (WA 56; see also KWPR 40).

Legions of spoiled children raised by doting but utterly well - meaning parents are sad evidence of this complex moral dialectic of giving and taking.

In The Incarnate Lord, 9 British theologian Lionel Thornton made extensive use of Whitehead's categories for framing a view of the world in which the Incarnation of Christ is the culmination of complex evolutionary process.

It is in coming to terms with the death of Jesus that we find an answer to our search for meaning, in face of the complex nature of finite existence and the problems raised by evil, suffering and death.

The growth and development of thisprocess of coming to be of the complex entity can be initiated and maintained only through inter-action and movement - in - relativity» [10].

«The goal is to promote a deeper understanding and more informed public discussion of this complex and rapidly evolving area of inquiry.»

In as much as this view sees body and soul as distinct but complementary it is harmonious with the approach fostered by Faith movement (e.g. March 2008 editorial: Body and Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short of the Catholic understanding of the soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex development.

Each component of a complex system or organism has a particular function within it - a function which is often essential to its survival and integrity.

However, the constitution of the major Catholic, Protestant, and sectarian Christian Churches, of the Jewish, Islamic and Parsi bodies, of the Buddhist and Jaina Samghas, and of Confucianism, are in each case the result of complex historical developments.

If there were a broad set of initial conditions consistent with the development of complex structures and a thin scattering of islands of life here and there, then yes, this would be a scenario in which life could be regarded as a random outcome.

For «[e] volution is the synthesis of complex being upon the physical basis of primal energies.

Yet it depended on selective attention to the social ills in the United States and ignorance of the complex relations between religion and culture in other parts of the world.

Ten years after the conclusion of The Wire, Chicago native Lena Waithe has picked up the concept of a complex, inner city narrative and pointed the camera at her hometown.

Her question — why — is also in a sense God's question because God is once again forced to deal with the result of a complex, interwoven history of human failure and sin.

Burns is writing a dissertation that bears on many of the problems of a complex and globalizing economy — the kinds of issues that Greider addresses in a more straightforward way Are the massive forces of the global economy dehumanizing the workplace?

He has many elements that would go into a plausible explanation of a complex phenomenon and many potentially helpful suggestions for lines of solution.

Whitehead's system is able to encompass the results, however: while the actual occasions constituting the central nervous system of bees are certainly of a lower degree of complexity than that of mammals, a bee brain contains thousands of interactive neurons, so that there is no a priori reason why the dominant occasion of the bee may not be capable of complex experiences in situations relevant to the bees» survival.

Withdraw or pervert either factor of this complex resultant, and the kind of experience we call pathological ensues.

He was able to make the communication of complex ideas resonate in the minds of his readers.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

True generality is necessarily profound, because it involves a consideration of complex relationships, the discernment of fundamental relevancies, and the exhibition of value premises.

But the whole point of the modem doctrine is the evolution of the complex organisms from antecedent states of less complex organisms.

Guiding ideals for life for the most part grow out of complex cultural conditions which are not deliberately produced.

The focal center of the complex building is a room for which no name yet has been found.

The membership of the complex structured society which is the electron is not, properly speaking, any of the subordinate societies or nexus of the electron, such as the personally ordered society, the enduring object, which constitutes the «life» of the electron, but, rather, the individual actual occasions of which these subordinate entities are composed.

As a white, middle - class woman living in California, rarely have I faced real pain as a result of complex systems, and strongly held societal, cultural or political traditions and beliefs.

It is a dynamic calculation based on the iteration (constant feedback) of complex numbers starting with zeros.

«A long - standing challenge to evolutionary theory has been whether it can explain the origin of complex organismal features.

The idea that mysticism floats free is something that Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other religions would react against because their mystical teachings are a part of the complex of being a Christian, Jew or Muslim, and they coexist with practices, beliefs, institutions and so forth.

The compound substance, in Aristotle, although it is made up of several elements and exhibits a balance of the opposite elemental qualities, does not retain the elements in their distinctness, and its form is not one of a complex of distinct qualities.

But I shall not explore that difference just now, but simply say that by my act of speaking I exercise causal power of a complex sort on the world about me.2