Sentences with phrase «of epochal»

That may be the biggest hurdle of all, given the unfamiliar nature of the slowly building problem — the antithesis of epochal events like Pearl Harbor, Sputnik and 9/11 that triggered sweeping enterprises.

If 2016 endures in American history as a year of epochal disaster, then it will be fair to ask, in the grim years to come: how on earth could artists have joked around so much while the darkness gathered?

That pitch - perfect exhibition will forever radiate an incomparable aura of epochal inevitability, so Takashi Murakami may have been wise to bill his foray at the palace as a meditation on a transhistorical dreamworld.

Here's what you need to know about On Kawara's One Million Years, a transporting artwork of epochal dimensions.

Curated by the Museum of Modern Art's Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman and the High Museum's Michael Rooks, Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013 uses the collections of the Museum of Modern Art to examine six specific years in the history of artmaking: 1913 (the year of the epochal Armory Show), 1929, 1950, 1961, 1988, and 2013 (a.k.a. the near future, though it will have become the present by the time Fast Forward closes on January 20).

Various Small Fires presents LIFE: On The Moon, a group exhibition tracing the immediate influence and lasting significance of the epochal July 20, 1969 moon landing on the early development of Land Art, represented by Robert Smithson and Michelle Stuart, in dialogue with recent works by Christopher Badger, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, and Tavares Strachan... read more

Something of their epochal tone appears already in Mutu's title, Perhaps the Moon Will Save Us.

Just as the launch of The Chronicle had occurred on the cusp of an epochal period for higher education, the debut of the «chronicle of precollegiate education» came as the first stirrings of a remarkable age of ferment in elementary and secondary policy were being felt.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

So if the new theory is right, and the oceans were separated much earlier — then what triggered all of those epochal events?

Nevertheless, the Yoruba mainstream, which Aregbesola called «Afenifere» (Yoruba political progressives) at the confab, romped into federal power, courtesy of the epochal Muhammadu Buhari presidential win of 2015.

From the northern leaders» handling of the Igbo quit threat, they would appear living in eternal regret of that epochal bestiality.

It reveals a naturalist of epochal importance who has long been only a legend

The theory of epochal time was formulated to avoid this logical inconsistency.

But it makes sense for Whitehead to shift from a theory of epochal time to one of epochal becoming in order to formulate a rule by which his earlier theory might be excluded.

Epochal becoming thus presupposes for its own possibility self - creation, which is precisely what we should expect for Whitehead's theories of epochal becoming and creativity to cohere with one another.

This question presupposes Whitehead's theory of epochal time, which has many difficult problems.

Since none of the alternatives is satisfactory one might consider abandoning the theory of epochal time altogether.

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).

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.

1 See David Sipfle, «On the Intelligibility of the Epochal Theory of Time,» The Monist, 53, 1969, p. 509; Robert Palter, Whitehead's Philosophy of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 7.

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.

Human civilization has entered into a period of epochal change.

In short, one must decide that simple location and misplaced concreteness really are fallacies before such a method as extensive abstraction or a metaphysics of epochal occasions will recommend themselves.

In MP, however, I have preserved some echoes of the epochal theory in the notion of act - temporality.

This brilliant speculation of James's is a necessary consequence of the epochal theory of time.

He leaves us — a thousand pages into the story — in mid-course, on the eve of the epochal triumphs and tragedies of 1964 and 1965, but, happily, he promises a second volume.

It was one of several factors which coalesced to convince Whitehead that no metaphysics of essentially self - identical and enduring fundamental entities is viahle.2 It encouraged him to develop a counter-theory of epochal, successive units of becoming.

Only two influences can modify and uplift the dogmas of natural religion: the pressure of the slowly advancing mores and the periodic illumination of epochal revelation.

I shall argue that Whitehead did in fact badly misinterpret Aristotle's concept of substance, as Eslick claimed, and I shall suggest that, far from amounting to an inconsequential error in historical exegesis, this misconception was a strong influence in turning Whitehead's metaphysics in the direction of an epochal theory of becoming.

• The history of European civilizations is at present living through one of its epochal shifts.

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

I believe Whitehead wanted to avoid just this proliferation of prehensions beyond necessity in his doctrine of epochal time.

The epochal nature of becoming displaces time from within an epoch to the succession of epochal states.

1 The first two alternatives alluded to in Ford's title are (1) John Cobb's theory of epochal becoming to the exclusion of real genetic successiveness (with which the present paper is in general sympathy), and (2) Edward Pols's claim that Whitehead's theory of genetic successiveness is inconsistent with the theory of epochal becoming.

The assumption of an anisotropy of time, along with the «momentariness» of change in spite of the epochal nature of moments, aligns the theory with microgenetic concepts.

They are a permeating market presence of epochal significance and yet an idea persists that their influence is invisible.

We are in the first phases of an epochal shift as billions of the world's industrial assets come online.

In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin - a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters - delivers the first definitive blow - by - blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink.

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The question is then is this kind of a one time epochal event that's beyond the level of even those big things.

In the study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they write: «China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade.

The two centrist parties end up at the bottom in the first round of the presidential election, setting up an epochal run - off between Ben Abbes and Le Pen.

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 every occasion must include some very general and abstract eternal objects as forms of definiteness (i.e., spatial, temporal, «epochal» ones) as well as less pervasive forms, no occasion is constituted as a heap of unileveled components, one as important or unimportant as another.

Interestingly, he used the terms «epochal occasion,» «event» and «droplets of existence,» but never «actual entity» or «eternal object,» suggesting that he still may have been working largely from Religion in the Making.

The conflict between Thomas» black supporters and his critics recalls the epochal struggle among blacks that raged at the turn of the century between the followers, respectively, of Booker T. Washington and of W. E. B. DuBois.

Perhaps it hinges on a confusion between (1) the necessity for there to be a modal dipolarity between God and the World and (2) the necessity for there to be an epochal dipolarity within God, that is, for the moments of God to exhibit the fundamental dipolarity (expressed by the Category of the Ultimate) between the present moment of God - as - creating and all previous moments of God - as - created which the present contains.

I have discussed (in Section V) a principle that is implicit in Whitehead's epochal theory of time: the principle that every act of becoming is such that there is another act of becoming that is immediately later.

The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics.

Whitehead advocated an» «epochal theory of time»» in Process and Reality (68).