Sentences with phrase «of objects known»

Quasars are believed to be powered by accretion of material onto supermassive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies, making these luminous versions of the general class of objects known as active galaxies.
«We've nearly doubled the number of these objects we know about in just one year, which is remarkable.»
The view of the center of our galaxy with a closer view of the object known as Sagittarius A *, the bright radio source that corresponds to the supermassive black hole.
The second mode, «Cake Walk», features players fighting for control of an object known as the «Glorious Golden Cupcake», with the player who hangs onto the cupcake the longest winning the match.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.
The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.
«I was no longer this object of desire,» she said.
They are stuck looking in one direction while the object of their interest is no longer interested.
It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»
«We want them to go to companies that will put them in the sorts of applications we know they can succeed at,» says Brooks — tasks such as picking up an object from a conveyor and putting it into a bin.
Since scientists know the size, weight, and shape of the objects that smashed into the Martian surface, they can use this information to better understand the nature of crater formation on Mars.
That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.
In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.
A person involved in the investigation said, however, that experts from Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board who had seen the object, a piece of what is known as a flaperon, were not yet fully satisfied, and called for further analysis.
Should your broker (IB) opt to stop doing business with an FCM, your account will follow the broker to its new clearing arrangement in a transaction known as a «bulk transfer»; unless, of course, you specifically object.
Grier has previously objected to about $ 27 million in claims by Stone Street Partners — a private equity firm and consulting firm once known as Siskey Capital — and two of its employees.
The reason they chose gold versus other objects is important - gold has certain characteristics that make it a better «store of value» (as it is commonly known) than other objects:
If you want to invest in cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is still a customary object of every portfolio — but it is no longer the onliest asset.
The entire science is based on calculations that use the speed of light and we know that objects are millions of light years away.
Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.»
Levi - Strauss's main thesis is basically Aristotelian: all men by nature desire to know, and aspire to a kind of totalizing wisdom about the objects they encounter.
But when you insist you know better than I and that I am wrong in objecting to what you speculate about me, that is entering into the territory of arrogance.
As Trapani explains: «The intellect [for Maritain] is a superior, intuitive, immaterial knowing power that operates together with the instrumentality of the senses in a diversity of ways, and, having being as its proper object, it puts us in direct contact with reality itself.»
The laws of physic requires that there be forces and objects that interact with each other, such as the four forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.
In spite of their taboos about their own special holy objects, they still know right from wrong when it comes to harming other people.
In this structure of knowing there is a fundamental split between the subject of knowing and the known object.
This survey, called the «Hubble Ultra Deep Field,» (in 1995 and 1998) was targeted on a region of the sky that was nearly devoid of known objects, so as to be (hopefully) representative of conditions in the distant Universe.
Is this to say that the objects known, the actual occasions which are known by subjecting them to divisions, are realities, not appearances, in the realm of being, not becoming?
We know this because damage to a preliminary stage can result, say, in a well - formed object (word, etc.) deprived of its meaning or recognition.
At Bryan College — a school named for a man who is best known for opposing evolution — some members of the faculty objected to a statement of faith that outlined a literal view of creation.
In spite of his early and short - lived embrace of nationalist sentiment and language and the military games he played with household objects, he knew that history was elsewhere, away from Jerusalem and what it represented.
But this past week I was talking to someone about grace, and they objected with the grace litmus test, and I don't know what happened, but I sighed out of exasperation and decided to give a different answer than the one I had always given before.
There emerges reflection or self - consciousness.23 Reflection is «the power acquired by consciousness to turn in upon itself, to take possession of itself as of an object endowed with its own particular consistence and value: no longer merely to know, but to know oneself; no longer merely to know, but to know that one knows
There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»
If the Turin Shroud is physical evidence of the resurrection of Christ, it is the most extraordinary object the world has ever known.
So again Luke, the cnn reporter of his day, writes all of this information in His day and within the life span of his witnesss and there are no known objects and that you don't believe but dawkins and crossan you take at their word?
The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.
We only love what we know, and we can only act out of love (for the proper object of the will is good.)
In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.17 Into the hands which broke and quickened the bread, which blessed and caressed little children, which were pierced with the nails; into the hands which are like our hands, the hands of which one can never tell what they will do with the object they are holding, whether they will break it or heal it, but which we know will always obey and reveal impulses filled with kindness and will always clasp us ever more closely, ever more jealously; into the gentle and mighty hands which can reach down into the very depth of the soul, the hands which fashion, which create, the hands through which flows out so great a love: into these hands it is comforting to surrender oneself especially if one is suffering or afraid.
They take a reading on objects that they know the date of.
Informants are frequently anxious before the interview starts, persuaded that they know little of value to the interviewer and perhaps wary because of earlier experiences in which they were the objects of a catechism or experiment.
The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.
Whilst our spiritual intellect's knowing of physical things is said to need as object the uniquely knowable universal, the final object of our spiritual, intellectual knowing is proposed as the non-universal individual.
This stage of the knowing process has as its object the intelligible universal form.
He did seem to acknowledge some such reality, while observing that a Whiteheadian would no doubt give more emphasis to the realm of eternal objects But his objections to this realm and to such speculation was nevertheless made clear.
If one still wanted to know about the knower and the knower's experience, this could be treated in a secondary way as a particular form of the body or a relation of the body to external objects.
Deleuze (1994) 14 - 15: «When the consciousness of knowledge or the working thought of memory is missing, the knowledge in itself is only the repetition of the object it is played, that is to say repeated, enacted instead of being known... the less one remembers, the less one is conscious of remembering one's past, the more one repeats it.»
The relationship between subject and object is no longer that relationship of knowing postulated by classical idealism, wherein the object always seems the construction of the subject, but a relationship of being in which, paradoxically, the subject is his body, his world, his situation, by a sort of exchange.
I know not why I felt a mixed sensation of despair and tenderness, excepting that, ever called a bastard, a bastard appeared to me an object of the greatest compassion in creation.»
The thing known is in an external relation to the known — the knowing does not constitute the essence of the object.
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