Sentences with phrase «precise idea in mind»

With regard to its whisky bottles, Diageo already had a very precise idea in mind, which - in terms of implementation on IS machines - proved to be rather problematic.

Not exact matches

And this point dovetails with the other point as far as since we don't pretend to know the precise timing of when bubbles kind of unwind or when the busts will finally reach a bottom, the idea is that we can actually be in the right quartile of activity, in other words I never try to catch the very top of a bubble, I don't try to ride things to the very end, and similarly I don't mind catching falling knifes.

People have rejected theism because they held untenable the idea of a mind not subject to change or to interaction with other beings, or a mind omnipotent in the sense that its power was all the power in existence, or a mind having precise knowledge of details of the future (or of all times from the standpoint of eternity), or a mind creating a first state of the cosmos at a finite time in the past, or knowing all suffering although it did not itself suffer, or an all - embracing mind which in no sense could be identified with the universe, or one which could in every sense be identified with it.

Victor Lowe, a very careful student of Whitehead's life and works, and the first to employ the systematic approach, is of the same opinion: «From what Whitehead said in his first lectures, it appears that most of the key ideas of his mature philosophy where in his mind when he arrived from England; they needed precise verbalization, review, and further development into a system» (ANW - 2 145).