Sentences with phrase «of physical reality»

Since the first cause stands outside of physical reality, and eternal, it must also be supernatural.

In this chapter we have proposed a notion of physical reality in which mentality is intrinsic to the physical.

But it is also possible to understand a great deal about the nature of physical reality by beginning from the other end of the continuum.

However, for our purposes it is sufficient to indicate the «temporal - experiential» quality that both expressions are pointing to in the constituents of physical reality.

It's all because of the action of gravity — a discovery that, if confirmed, could help pave the way for a unified description of physical reality.

He uses his images less as propaganda than as documentation, proof of the physical reality of secret places.

It is also possible to reach a more concrete understanding of physical reality by recognizing its mental aspects.

And rather than feeling miserable about those things, I began to glimpse a deeper level of physical reality at which my life was behaving exactly as it should.

As we noted in Chapter III, however, causation has often been narrowly construed in accordance with now unacceptable concepts of physical reality and perception.

Most discussions of economics ignore the actual character of physical reality, and most discussions in the physical sciences ignore the existence of human beings and their impact in the physical world.

These thinkers have attempted to keep the specific discoveries of modern science in a box where such data can not effect the study of the foundations of physical reality, namely metaphysics.

There still might have been a straining toward the further realization of more intensely complex arrangements of physical reality.

As opposed to human creations like the page numbers in this magazine, I'm now talking about numbers that are basic properties of our physical reality.

One is the birth of quantum mechanics, and the other is the establishment of the physical reality of the electromagnetic field as a U (1) gauge field.

Our observations, he suggests, might actually contribute to the creation of physical reality.

What kind can we have in light of physical reality?

But the the very meaning of «pause» * could * be a distortion of physical reality too, a reality that no - one can yet know.

And that causation, in this case, would have to stem from something outside of our physical reality.

It remains now for us to explore the idea of purpose in relation to our alternative notion of physical reality.

This surprising theory provides a possible unified description of all physical reality.

The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality.

But we may also understand «purpose» in terms of the «mental - experiential» character of physical reality that we set forth in the earlier chapters.

These thinkers have attempted to keep the specific discoveries of modern science in a box where such data can not affect the study of the foundations of physical reality, namely metaphysics.

That the universe exhibits at least some degree of order, as well as a wide variety of ordered arrangements of physical reality, is obvious.

In particular, quantum mechanics posits a role for the observer in physical reality that has fundamental implications for the Newtonian view of physical reality as existing and developing independently of any freely acting agent.

Thus it is not a matter of indifference whether we envision the basic constituents of physical reality as insensate lumps of matter or as percipient occasions.

We shall propose with Whitehead and Hartshorne that while consciousness does not exist on earth prior to man, mentality is a pervasive aspect of physical reality.

And yet there is the nucleus here of a model we might employ to understand the basic constituent elements of physical reality.

He wanted a theory that, in his words, would accommodate «independent existence of the physical reality present in different parts of space.»

We have criticized the conventional materialistic picture of physical reality, perception, causation and evolution that follows from a thorough - going expulsion of mentality and feeling from the fundamental constituents of nature.

As our sense of physical reality shifts, these artists can open up the possibilities thinking beyond selfhood.

Though each installation is distinctive, all three simultaneously transport the viewer out of physical reality to anchor them to the present moment.

With the emotion in proper proportion, we do not lose sight of the physical reality behind the poem, a reality subtly conveyed in the verb lay.

In the previous chapter I proposed an alternative to the notion of physical reality espoused by scientific materialism.

In the second place the traditional hierarchy may have to be altered to fit the «general systems» view of physical reality according to which there are countless levels of organization in physical reality and correspondingly numerous leaps and qualitative distinctions throughout the universe.

Consequently, our notion of physical reality suffers from our taking sense perception too one - sidedly as the foundation of cosmological speculation.

If we view the whole of physical reality as composed of throbs of nonconscious emotion, we can understand how, out of this, there emerged in an evolutionary process the highly complex subjectivity that constitutes our own experience.

We object to the materialistic approach as unempirical and excessively abstract in its representation of physical reality.

Once we reject the dualism of mind and nature we must place our experience of temporality on a continuum with the rest of physical reality.

Throughout the last fifty years various philosophers and physicists have attempted to assess the extent of agreement between the conception of physical reality within the framework of process philosophy and the character of the physical world described by quantum theory.1 Recently this line of inquiry has been given new life by the discovery of Bell's...

As science is commonly understood, even among many sophisticated liberals today, the scientific picture of man and his world bears the image of a Newtonian form of orderliness in nature which readily lends itself to observation and description, and to the work of reason following from such direct apprehension of physical realities.

The disparity which relativity science finds between man's measure of physical realities and realities in themselves has led to a notion of indeterminacy and depth in experience which would not have occurred to scientists of an earlier period.

Where depth and complexity are taken seriously, in speaking of history as in speaking of physical realities, something other than appeal to logic, or even to the claims of observation, is involved.