Sentences with phrase «questions of relativity»

He is particularly interested in examining questions of relativity and perception, and how audience and context influence interpretation.

Such a standard, if it can be found, provides the answer to the question of the relativity of values raised in Chapter VI.

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It was a great article... the first of its kind that I have read actually.But I have one question, the trend till now always has been to tune investment rates as per market rates — relativity has always existed.

He has recently published an article questioning the theory of relativity in the American Spectator.

A closely related question is the even more hotly - disputed one of the so - called «relativity of values».

[16] Although upholders of general relativity theory maintain the unintelligibility of such questions, the questions are unintelligible only within their system Riemannian space depends for basic concepts upon Euclidean geometry, which is then transcended.

But actual entities do fall under the principle of relativity; therefore, the view in question must be false.

In conclusion, even though Hartshorne himself questions divine relativity in the case of inferior emotions and ignorance, we have seen that, for any particular experience, the assertion that the relative nature of God knows that experience by feeling it in exactitude is unwarranted.

This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?

It is essential here to comprehend that the principle of relativity (which states that all actual entities are internally related) is not simply applied to physiology or psychology, etc., but rather, in each instance the principle is arrived at in an original way from within the particular facts of the particular field of learning in question.

This question, of the relativity of different types of religion to different types of need, arises naturally at this point, and will become a serious problem ere we have done.

These questions lead on to interesting discussions about whether the universe has a built in «directionality» or is guided step by step by a God who is forever interfering to put things back on course; and about the meaning of time and the role of special relativity.

In the third section of more detailed chapters he tackles the central questions of modern physics: the interpretation of the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.

Ford's own answer to the question of God's location in general and the relativity problem in particular rests upon his Boethian interpretation of Whitehead, discussed above.

At the very same time that it has become clear that the theistic question can not possibly be discussed as a merely empirical question, it has also become clear, on secular philosophical grounds as well as religious, that contingency and relativity can be as readily predicated of ultimate reality as necessity and absoluteness.

We raise these limitations because they bear directly on Charles Hartshorne's question of the reconciliation of special relativity's denial of absolute simultaneity with the process view of God.15 How indeed can God participate both as possible subject and object in every actual occasion in a universe subject to a principle of locality?

More than that, Niebuhr's deep appreciation of Schleiermacher and of liberalism's concern for experience, relativity, the symbolic imagination and the role of the affections set the questions that many of us were to continue to wrestle with in our own subsequent theological careers.

In 1905 Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, in which he questioned the very notion of absolute space, showing that nothing is ever absolutely at rest or absolutely in motion.

Since Whitehead's later work comprises for the most part his metaphysical views, with questions of physics treated only peripherally, they have figured just slightly or not at all into discussions of Whitehead's interpretation of relativity.

Some thirty years ago Charles Hartshorne raised two questions concerning the Whiteheadian understanding of the temporal structure of God.1 He asked first if, in spite of relativity physics, there must not be a cosmic present, a divine immediacy in which the de facto totality of simultaneous actual entities exist.

You don't believe in the theory of relativity: either you understand it or you don't understand it; there is no question of belief.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

The question is, given the relativity of our thinking, what confidence, if any, can we place in any of our ideas, even our ideas of relativity?

The «Troeltschian» questions that I have raised — about historical and cultural relativity, about the relation of Christianity to other faiths, and about the relation of Christianity to the methods and findings of modern science — are not foreign to pastors and members of their congregations.

Einstein took seriously questions about his science, up to the point of writing one of the best introductions to relativity for the lay reader.

These questions get at the very nature of space and time and set a high bar for relativity's successor.

Using the latest satellite data, the Planck researchers have put various theories to the test that take dark energy into account and are based on modified gravitation — and hence also call into question the theory of gravitation postulated in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

They see black holes as an opportunity to answer one of the biggest questions in particle physics theory: Why can't we square quantum mechanics with general relativity?

That can be a far more enigmatic question for many (mostly men) than trying to conceive Einstein's theory of special relativity.

The answers to some of those questions appear in different formats: images of the first walk on the moon, music videos related to the space race, quotes by artists in the show about the concept of space, cartoons that explain the theory of relativity, or comics that posit parallel universes.

Weir probes the nature of a fixed identity and these questions are underpinned by the theories under her scrutiny, whether it is relativity, intentionality, film theory, the duality of light or the philosophy of time and history.

Evolution, Newtons laws of gravity and the theory of relativity while having uncertainties or open questions, have not be falsified, and have countless examples in nature and the lab that demonstrate their predictive abilities.

Try this one: Except when the gravity in question is gravity on the edge of a neutron star and extreme general relativity holds.

Questions to ask include whether the office is compatible with the type of real estate you sell and the services you render; the number of clerical staff you actually need (as opposed to the amount you assume you need); how your location identifies with your clientele; furniture, fixtures and equipment; variable costs compared to productivity, and other inputs that would include how your clients, agents, and employees view the relativity of these various factors.