Sentences with phrase «of events in nature»

Even a perfect model wouldn't be able to reproduce the chronological sucession of events in Nature beyond a predictability time limit due to the chaotic nature of the system.

Hence simultaneity for Whitehead is the spatial spread of events in a given inertial frame as defined by a given duration, and is Newtonian in the sense that each instantaneous space in a frame provides a single present class of all events in nature relative to that frame.

It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.

He recognized that these disciplines abstract from the full event, including especially its value, but he does not say that they abstract from the interiority or subjectivity of events in nature.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

Not exact matches

The previously filmed season finale of Mr. Robot contains a graphic scene similar in nature to today's tragic events in Virginia.

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It can be a challenge to get even the most enthusiastic of employees to participate in team - building activities, and the announcement of mandatory events of this nature often prompts further complaints.

Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major sticking point in reaching overall agreement.

Partly reflecting the high - profile nature of that event, together with agents» growing experience with a relatively volatile floating exchange rate, hedging became the norm in Australia alongside quite a rapid expansion in Australia's onshore FX derivative market.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The procedures, in effect, allow the Government to determine policy in the event of a material difference; but the procedures are politically demanding and their nature reinforces the Reserve Bank's independence in the conduct of monetary policy.

The procedures, in effect, allow the Government to determine policy in the event of a material difference; but the procedures are politically demanding and their nature reinforces the Bank's independence in the conduct of monetary policy.

Despite the modest nature of the events under consideration, Mr. Barrack said Mr. Burnett was actively involved in producing the inauguration week festivities.

The event took place in Singapore, the spot on a map where an admiring neighborhood of wild nature and the changing world of progress make a perfect match.

As seen in archival footage from KQED television, the Christian nature of the event was unmistakable.

Then we will see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint of the inherited ontology of nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and at every step, «a pilgrimage in which the miracle of divine love... is the most ordinary of events.»

«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.

This view may be argued for in various ways: — first: by appeal to logical laws and metaphysical necessities; — second: by appeal to the existence and nature of God; — third: by appeal to causal determinism (Causal determinism is the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature)

Whitehead's endeavors to resolve questions of becoming began with physical nature as a frame of reference and an event as the primary datum in the construction, functioning, and form of nature, with the time factor of space - time constituting one of the major expressions of the relation between events.

These initial data can be described as elements of composition, symbolic in nature, which in historical events appear as fragments of the hierarchical configurations previously discussed.

In considering passage Whitehead assumes that a structure of events «provides the framework of the externality of nature within which objects are located» (PNK 80) and that «space and time are abstractions expressive of certain qualities of the structure» (PNK 80).

A duration is not a stretch of time spanned by a perception but a virtual compresence of successive events in a «concrete slab of nature,» in which all events are simultaneous, and successive simultaneities overlap.

If every object in the universe, and event in your life is the results of past events and the laws of nature, how could «love» even come into the equation?

A natural canon, such as a scientific theory, frames the «unguided events» of inanimate nature, and the canon for such canons sets the boundary conditions for scientific inquiry in general, the conditions for what count as empirically verifiable facts or rationally intelligible concepts.

God can not unilaterally bring it about that events in nature be perfectly correlated with the needs of specific humans.

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

This does not mean that Whitehead abandoned the temporal continuity expressed in the infinite divisibility of events in the writings on the philosophy of nature, but rather that this infinite divisibility was relegated to the domain of the potential in terms of the extensive continuum.

As the beauty found in nature is subject to some process, so the values affirmed by men are relative to the sway of historical events.

Whereas the effort to overcome dualism was doomed to failure when nature was conceived as material substance, a nondual view follows quite naturally when nature is conceived first and foremost in terms of events.

The New Testament does not give us a doctrine of «nature», a doctrine of the authentic nature of man; it proclaims the event of redemption which was wrought in Christ.

Even if there can be agreement on the nature of events and experiences, there is a striking difference in evaluation.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

As in the human example, not only must the nature of the event be appropriate in order to have a special act of God, God's intention must also have a sufficiently large influence in determining the nature of the action.

If God foresees the actual details of the future, events in nature - history are nothing but the unfolding of a previously written scroll negating creaturely freedom.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

«51 Since a world, in which God reveals Godself as an eschatological event, is of almost apocalyptic nature, no one can claim to know any given rule or any world - law that God has to follow.

He is negating the first by denying the very possibility of «signs»; The Kingdom is not of such a nature that a sign visible in terms of the totality of world events or the externals of history or the cosmos will mark its presence; God is not to be seen at work in the clash of heavenly bodies or of earthly armies.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioIn taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

In metaphysics, issues of realism and antirealism are relevant to Whitehead's fundamental attitude, as well as questions about the nature and identity conditions for events.

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

Whitehead's teleology is then descriptive of the event's process of actualization; it says nothing about the event as striving to give rise to a specific character determined beforehand by its essential nature (PW 188/207), nor is it in conflict with physical determinism (PW 206/226).

But, with the exception of Gen. 14, and possibly certain aspects of the Joseph story, we simply are not dealing in Gen. 12 - 50 with public events but almost entirely with private affairs of a domestic and sometimes intimate nature.

But Ogden is equally adamant in asserting that the Christ - event is to be understood as a decisive disclosure of God's everlasting nature as a just and loving God.

If as human creatures we are not so confined by law but that events can be made to happen within the order of nature in response to purpose, surely God is not so limited.

In his Principles of Natural Knowledge, Whitehead defines «durations» in terms of percipient events: a duration relative to a percipient event is «that complete whole of nature simultaneous with the percipient event» (68In his Principles of Natural Knowledge, Whitehead defines «durations» in terms of percipient events: a duration relative to a percipient event is «that complete whole of nature simultaneous with the percipient event» (68in terms of percipient events: a duration relative to a percipient event is «that complete whole of nature simultaneous with the percipient event» (68).

Whitehead's initial theory of prehension (in SMW) was crafted with the concerns of the events of nature primarily in consideration, but he did want to allow room for mind.

The transfiguration, like other key events in the Gospels, testifies to the trinitarian nature of God as well as the divinity of Christ.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).