Sentences with phrase «of reality as»

Equally disturbing, when scientific bias converges with political bias, published conclusions can be as devoid of reality as the epicycles that defended the consensus belief of an earth - centered solar system for two thousand years.

When the paper described scenario A as continuing the present emissions growth, with the only caveat being that it must «eventually» be on the high side of reality as resources dwindle, most people, including myself who has an engineering degree, would understand that scenario A was the emission path that the world was then following.

Descartes» reimagining of reality as corporeal and self - contained, with no depths and unlinked to any transcendent force, meant that the Earth and the cosmos were emptied of any powers other than those identified by mechanism.

Ergo, the «control knob» proposition has the same likelihood of reality as those space alien abductions one reads about, Big Foot enrolling at Univ. of Washington, Congress balancing the budget, or Earth developing a climate of «boiling» oceans.

An appreciation for nontextual literacy might lend itself to the reappreciation of reality as intimitely related to material objects and their manipulation.

While this is the season of good cheer and a time to allow light to reign, this thread can accommodate a bit of reality as well.

I suppose he thought he was being clever, but the notion of reality as a database is absurd.

He saw the artist as holding up a mirror to society: an individual whose dissent from the norm could lead to a profound reconfiguration of reality as we know it.

In eXistenz is Paused (2014), a series of works comprising of a video installation, imagery and a light sculpture, Clar explores the notion of reality as a computer simulation.

Freilicher said of her work, «I'm quite willing to sacrifice fidelity to the subject to the vitality of the image, a sensation of the quick, lovely blur of reality as it is apprehended rather than analyzed.

Lichty is a conceptual artist, curator, and theorist exploring how media shape our perception of reality as well as the borders between the digital and the material.

«I am painting a persistent feeling, that can not be adequately explained in words, of timelessness, a mistrust of reality as we know it.

«I'm quite willing to sacrifice fidelity to the subject to the vitality of the image,» she continued in the same interview, «a sensation of the quick, lively blur of reality as it is apprehended rather than analyzed.

Today, through my anamorphic works I redesign the volumes of any kind of surface involved, thus causing with my paintings a temporary interruption of normality by altering the perception of familiar contexts, and so raising a different understanding of spaces and, consequently, of reality as a whole.»

Her protofeminist imagery, which draws on pop's depiction of reality as heavily mediatized and therefore ultimately constructed, seeks representation of women's perspectives and female desire.

And it's kind of interesting that these splashes of paint represents as much of reality as the photographic base on which they appear.

There's an image for that fundamental reality of change: the dragon, which is the embodiment of the dynamic energy that drives the cosmos, that generative nature of reality as a tissue of transformation.

Players will question the perception of reality as they try to balance the mechanics of combat, magick, and sanity events to progress through the adventure.

Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs ($ 49.99) Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs weaves an intricate story that pushes the boundaries of reality as you battle restless spirits causing chaos throughout Tokyo.

The Way of Life DEFINITIVE EDITION tells stories about several serious themes: from euthanasia to death penalty, from war to love, from defeat to discrimination, everything tied by the personal growth and the perception of reality as main themes.

If previous promos, trailers and other bits of promotional material are any indication, the show will use Haller's muddled perception of reality as a way of bending the minds of viewers and -LSB-...]

And Braff has shown an ability to infuse his work with a vein of reality as in «Garden State» and «Wish I Was Here.»

The pilot, auspiciously titled Three Busy Debras, is «an absurdist comedy that follows three disturbed housewives (played by Honig, Jouhari and Stonoha), and their fellow residents of an affluent Connecticut suburb that exists outside of reality as we know it,» according to that press release.

Bisbee your comment made me laugh, definitely a dose of reality as these are only comfortable in a warped world where high stilettos are the baseline.

This move is becoming more of a reality as I chat up my new roomie, Evan, on the phone to talk logistics and as I pack my spices and keurig k cups.

But it's also a benchmark of sorts, a measure of the sheer strangeness of reality as revealed by the discoveries of modern physics, discoveries that Greene chronicles with brilliant clarity.

The most advanced clocks can help physicists to test such fundamental aspects of reality as the time variability of physical constants, to very precisely verify the predictions of the general theory of relativity, and also to search for dark matter in the Universe.

With such a thinking process, grounded on projections of reality as opposed to reality itself, Socrates asks, how could they draw an accurate picture of the world?

In contrast to this vision of reality as television, Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy depicted a dystopian world in which the hubris of the human race will engender nonprotein life - forms that will multiply and threaten the planet.

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.

Anything caught up in that flow takes a one - way journey to oblivion, winking out of our reality as it crosses the event horizon and then entering an inner realm cut off from the rest of the universe.

Third album was Black Sabbath's Master of Reality as my taste got heavier.

Admittedly, it's not quite as disrespectful towards the fundamental forces of reality as the party's «cut tax - spend - more» economic message, but it's alarming nonetheless.

Sometimes the hatred of sheepmen for coyotes, bears and mountain lions seems to go so far beyond the dimensions of reality as to be almost pathological in origin.

In order to do that you need a perfect presentation of reality as it is.

All they can do is modify and perhaps give us a greater understanding of reality as it is presented to us by our perception.

Rather, sense experience participates in the constitution of reality as such.

Whitehead describes the nature of the universe and of reality as such, while Merleau - Ponty describes the relatedness of the body and the world as perception.

First of all, his conception of reality as social process makes individual personal identity through time an abstraction from a more concrete network of social interaction which unites individuals.

Indeed, it was precisely his effort to incorporate the cosmic vision of Whitehead (especially the idea of experiencing all of reality as a single complex datum) into his own interpretation of religious experience that created such tension in his efforts to effect a union between religious experience and scientific method; for the task of science is to «prune down the objects [of experience] to the limits of its own powers of definition and minute examination,» while «religion must deal with the total concrete fact...» (RESM 53).

It may be also that such churches have grasped the new nature of reality as it has been created in our subconscious by television and the other mass media.

Thus, utilitarian moral principles most closely correspond to the basic structure of reality as posited by his metaphysical system Since ultimate value in Hartshorne's view is achieved in the divine experience, human beings are morally bound to contribute to that experience by acting according to utilitarian principles.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

Thus, when we think of reality as consisting of moments of experience, we are conscious that reality is always becoming.

And even more recently Whitehead has emphasized the dynamic, processive nature both of reality as a whole and also of its constituent elements.

Religious symbolism relates us especially to the intrinsic importance of reality as we feel it primordially grounding our being and becoming at the pole of primary perception.

Physicist David Bohm, who dares to speculate on what he considers to be the philosophical implications of modern physics, asks whether thought itself might not be part of reality as a whole.

In fact for this philosopher of process the primary metaphysical question is that of how to hold together the sense of permanence with that of perishing.6 Is the religious vision of something that abides and that saves the world consistent with the fabric of reality as we know it from science and naive experience?

The closest we can get to such objectivity is the judgment of reality as a whole upon any one of its parts.

The above description of the process by which an actual entity becomes explains both the processive character of reality and the essential integration of reality as a whole.