Sentences with phrase «particular ordinary object»

This particular ordinary object, however — a urinal — was Duchamp's way of thumbing his nose at the institution.

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Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

21 In his James Lectures at Harvard in 1940, he abandoned the term «particulars» for «universals» or «qualities» that, based on the examples he cites, functioned somewhat like Whiteheadian «eternal objects»: that is, ordinary macroscopic objects or experiences are to be conceived as a particular togetherness of these qualia at a given locus in spacetime.22

Almost all ordinary geometrical objects can be described in terms of this particular type of set, so this was just the buttress needed to keep uncomfortable apparitions such as Banach and Tarski's ball out of mainstream mathematics.