Sentences with phrase «relevant alternatives»

A decision is only possible among relevant alternatives, but it is not in the nature of the past to constitute itself into such alternatives.

God's presence is the offering of relevant alternative ways of creatively responding to the past or to the total environment, as this also participates in constituting the new occasion.

In this presentation, we discuss data from studies conducted with academic, clinical, and industry collaborators that demonstrates the utility of the system as a more predictive, human - relevant alternative for efficacy and safety testing of new chemical entitites.

The availability of relevant alternatives, Whitehead thought, can be understood only by virtue of a divine element in the universe that orders possibility in its relevance to actuality so as to lure events toward creative novelty.

We have already seen anticipations of reversion in Whitehead's discussion of the imaginative penumbra surrounding the bare facts of the Battle of Waterloo (Q2: PR 185C), the incorporation of relevant alternatives to the datum in the objective lure, and the account of Hume's missing shade of blue (Q2: PR 87fC +).

If there are relevant alternatives, there must be a sphere of possibility which can be distinguished from the sphere of past actuality.

In my judgment, such conventional forced options as monism or pluralism, idealism or realism, determinism or indeterminism are all question - begging from start to finish, because they fail to exhaust all the relevant alternatives between which a reasoned choice may in fact be made.

It is prehended as a «proximate novelty,» and — through the parent's anticipatory structuring of his perceptual field — a «relevant alternative» (PR 381).

Once again, The Design and Technology Association was able to influence Government's policy makers adopt a far more appropriate, forward looking and relevant alternative.

Therefore, start measuring a carbon tax against the relevant alternatives.

A combined hybrid model seems a relevant alternative to the two traditional approaches.