Sentences with phrase «of isomorphism»

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There is an order - isomorphism between the following two sets: the set (ordered by later) of the actual occasions in the causal past of a given subject actual occasion, and the set (ordered by earlier) of the simple physical feelings in the process of concrescence of that subject actual occasion.

The B - series side of time taken alone will land us in Zeno's paradoxes because the B - series leads to isomorphism with the mathematical continuum and so to infinite divisibility.

Mays complains that even if physical concepts were more than pragmatic devices (which they are not, according to Mays), this isomorphism between forms of energy and sensory qualities does not hold (PW 210-16/231 -38).

This behavioral isomorphism, despite all other obvious differences, elects societies as well as persons to membership in the select club of entities that, amid the multitudinous teleologies of the universe, are also purposive in their activity.

In some passages he says that models in religion, like those in science, derive from analogies between observations, «the perception of significant isomorphism».

In particular, they hold that there are entities in the world something like those described in the model; they believe there is some isomorphism between the model and the real structures of the world.

Maxwell, for instance, showed that the equations of an electric field would be the same as those for the flow of «an imaginary incompressible fluid»; the purpose of invoking the latter was «to make the mathematical theorems more intelligible to certain minds».32 At least in his early work he seems to have regarded the incompressible fluid and the electric field as analogues whose only resemblance is mathematical isomorphism.

We also found strong evidence of institutional isomorphism — successful charter schools clearly imitating Catholic schools.

Plants, inanimate objects, images, affect and energies are all seen as part of the same organic whole, where an isomorphism is created between social forces and material ecologies.

In the remainder of this section the following key concepts of the structural model will be introduced and critiqued: sub-systems and boundaries; isomorphism; enmeshment and disengagement and flexibility of family structure.