Sentences with phrase «primary object of»

Once you've established the breath, you can stick with that or switch the primary object of your concentration to a visual image, such as a color or a «happy place» like a beach.

«The primary object of the victimisation provisions... is to ensure that persons are not penalised or prejudiced because they have taken steps to exercise their statutory rights or are intending to do so.»

The council was forced to eat humble pie when the House of Lords restored the decision of the employment tribunal, restating that the primary object of the victimisation provisions was to ensure that people were not to be penalised for taking steps to exercise their statutory rights.

The primary object of the email was to underscore to other plaintiff - side lawyers the importance of obtaining production of the entire file in order to scrutinize expert reports filed in light of the experience gained in that case.

Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, we need not look far to see that money, power and privilege for ourselves, for our bought - and - paid - for politicians, and for our newly - made rich minions are the primary object of life.

Some of the earlier works incorporate elements of collage including objects such as d'oyleys and felt lettering, while more recently painted text has become the primary object of investigation.

Serving as the primary object of want for the mammoth titan Thanos, the Infinity Gauntlet guarantees its person limitless energy and domination.

This is the primary object of government».

For many years ministers had preached with the primary object of convicting people of their sin and of showing the forgiving love of God in Jesus Christ.

It is American education that will be the primary object of my examination.

How, in the midst of our typically anthropocentric devotions, does God become our primary object of concern?

James M. Gustafson faithfully develops Niebuhr's legacy when he insists that «deity is the primary object of concern for theological ethics» and that the issues of theological ethics are structured by what one experiences, believes and expresses about God and God's relations to the world.

This is not to close the door between the laboratory and the sacristy, rather the opposite; what we discover from the natural sciences can not be hermetically sealed off from philosophy and theology as though it were some totally separate area of wisdom.If the primary object of physical science is the physical realm in its inter-dependant relationships, the object of metaphysics is the very same physical realm as it relates to the spiritual.

To be sure, Canada, with which the US has a trade surplus when including services, is not the primary object of the Trump administration's ire.

This is similar to Whitehead's point that the primary objects of prehension are other occasions or nexuses of occasions replete with the subjective senses of their own satisfactions.

If civic virtue and a shared commitment to the common good are primary objects of schooling, a strong case can be made that school choice helps, not hinders, that mission

If civic virtue and a shared commitment to the common good are primary objects of schooling — and I agree that they should be — a strong case can be made that school choice helps, not hinders that mission.

The Bylaws of The German Shepherd Dog Club of America were approved by the American Kennel Club on January 30, 1996 with the primary objects of the GSDCA being as follows:

Not exact matches

That means the progressive denizens of This Town can't get distracted by the shiny object that is our ideological champion (who, it should be mentioned, hasn't visited Iowa once this campaign cycle, has repeatedly stated she will not run for President in 2016, and signed a letter encouraging Clinton to run) primarying the presumptive nominee.

Even when a man and woman deeply desire a child, the act of love itself can not take the child as its primary object.

«Primary» here does not mean chronologically prior but rather primordial, such that the experience of specific objects is always a discrimination within what is given to experience primordially.

Idolatry is making primary and central — treating as the object of ultimate devotion — something unworthy of that status, something other than God.

In his book Being and Having, Marcel uses a series of polarities to delineate two basic modes of relating to the world: being and having; participation and objectification; mystery and problem; presence and object; I - Thou relationships and I - It relationships; thought which stands in the presence of, and thought which proceeds by interrogation; concrete thinking and abstraction; secondary reflection and primary reflection.55 Marcel recognizes that both modes of relating to the world are necessary, but he feels the contemporary person is increasingly becoming a slave to the possessive orientation.

Faith in this primary sense reflects the positive response to the object of loyalty.

Theology as a practical discipline does not invite fascination with the subjectivity of the believer, for its primary concern is how the self should be shaped to correspond to the object of religious language.

A key consequence of thus mistaking a partial abstraction for an ultimate explanation is that various dualisms are thereby created: subject - object, primary - secondary qualities, extended substance - mental substance, etc..

Even though scientific theories may have folk - theories as their origin and folk - theories may have to serve as reliable guides to a given subject in the absence of a developed scientific theory, when truth is the primary concern and time is no object, folk - theories are usually superseded by their scientific counterparts.

with complete consistency, accords priority to actual entities is that it is only actual entities which are agents, in the primary sense I have endeavored to elucidate, all other entities being «agents» or «efficacious» only either as factors in actual entities, i.e., as contributory to the «act» of actual entities (e.g., eternal objects, prehensions, subjective forms, propositions) or as derivative from actual entities (e.g., nexus, societies).

There is secondary origination of conceptual feelings with data which are partially identical with, and partially diverse from, the eternal objects forming the data in the primary phase of the mental pole; the determination of identity and diversity depending on the subjective aim at attaining depth of intensity by reason of contrast.

That aim determines the initial gradations of relevance of eternal objects for conceptual feeling; and constitutes the autonomous subject in its primary phase of feelings with its initial conceptual valuations, and with its initial physical purposes.

The primary purpose of this article is to show the similarity between Prolog programming and Whiteheadian philosophy and to use Prolog programming to illustrate some aspects of the concepts of eternal objects, propositions, actual entities, and concrescence.

The I - Thou relation changes nothing in the primary state of things, but the thickening of distance into I - It changes the whole situation of the other being, making it into one's object.

Furthermore, the exigencies of his system required him to conceive of the initial aim in terms of single definite form: the «aim determines the initial gradations of relevance of eternal objects for conceptual feeling and constitutes the autonomous subject in its primary phase...» (PR 244).

Most of us seem to think that Jesus» primary teaching method was storytelling and parables and object lessons.

The primary metaphysical truth concerning the realm of eternal objects is «that the status of any eternal object A in this realm is capable of analysis into an indefinite number of subordinate relationships of limited scope» (SMW 164f.

An open chain of interpretants is thus created by this primary relation between sign and object.

Galileo divided all attributes into two groups: «primary qualities» of mass and extension, which he believed to be properties of objects themselves, and all other «secondary qualities» such as color and hotness, which he believed to be merely subjective sensations in the observer's mind.

But at least one question remains as basic and elemental for us as it was for Niebuhr: Is the object of our theological inquiry the actuality of life in, with and before the living God, or have we pushed this primary reality aside?

That's the primary activity of agape; it's not feeling something for the love object — that's fileo (or, eros, if sexual or romantic).

First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7 With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).

The answer is, that when things are separately and specifically noticed in acts which, though distinct, are unified and ordered by a characteristic enumerative interest or purpose, the primary contents (sensa) corresponding to the things are caught up in the overarching act to form a whole representation (in the sense of an intentional object) on the basis of which an objective, real, multiplicity intuitively appears.

Next, you object to «varying» interpretations of Scripture on pragmatic concerns — something you evidently define apart from CORE theological convictions... but the PRIMARY teaching of Scripture is theological.

This shifting of primary subjectivity from ourselves to the earth and the cosmos may run against the grain of our habit of turning nature into a mere object to be manipulated by our subjective control, but it would be both scientifically responsible and environmentally beneficial.

This property amounts to the recovery, on behalf of value amid the transitoriness of reality, of the self - identity which is also enjoyed by the primary eternal objects.

In this creative advance, an object is «only an abbreviated way to note that there has been an ensemble of relationships» (N 158), in which, as he thinks Whitehead correctly argued, there is no bifurcation of primary and secondary qualities (N 158).

The principle of the graduated «intensive relevance» of eternal objects to the primary physical data of experience expresses a real fact as to the preferential adaptation of selected eternal objects to novel occasions originating from an assigned environment.

According to Whitehead, Descartes gives primacy to the experiencing subject over the object of experience, thus shifting the focus to the subject as the primary source for philosophical reflection.

The author uses the square dance as an analogy of Whitehead's eternal objects — the primary structure by which experience is unified.

Meanwhile the object itself onto which the secondary qualities are projected is said to be made up of «primary qualities.»

The supervenience thesis gives an explicit form to the idea that physical properties are primary and basic, and the physical properties an object instantiates — that is, its physical nature — determines all of its properties, that is, its entire nature.