Neuroscientists from Western University have taken the all - important first step towards understanding the neural basis of size constancy or the ability to
see an object as having the same size.
Lewis Colburn, of Philadelphia,
sees objects as unreliable tour guides.
Many critics
see these objects as evocative of the desperation of the poor, Black urban class, but Hammons reportedly saw a sort of sacrosanct or ritualistic power in these materials, which is why he utilized them so extensively.
Not exact matches
That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president
sees half the country's population not just
as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but
objects for his physical gratification
as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.
After the original turtle image test, the researchers reproduced the reptile
as a physical
object to
see if the modified image would still trick Google's computers.
People
object to a system that they
see as being dominated by big pharma, a system that intrusively asserts control over our lives, telling us what's wrong with us, and telling us what we must do in order to get better (
as they choose to define «better»).
Many
objected to what they
saw as overdevelopment of their homeland, and in response, GL shut down the ranch in 2008.
Perhaps the first thing to understand is that when LeCun discusses computer vision, it's not the same
as how a person
sees, although the process of teaching software how to recognize an
object has some similarities.
Male rosé drinkers have transformed it from a wine «
seen by serious wine drinkers
as cloying, mass - produced swill, an
object of revulsion and gendered disdain,»
as GQ wrote, into something men are happy to be
seen drinking.
A person involved in the investigation said, however, that experts from Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board who had
seen the
object, a piece of what is known
as a flaperon, were not yet fully satisfied, and called for further analysis.
The offender can
see the company
as a proxy and serve
as an
object of higher loyalty.
Look closely and you'll
see shadows behind various
objects in the environments,
as if they are cardboard cutouts.
There are parents who
object to the «Battle Hymn of the Republic» because they either
see it
as «religious» in nature, or because they are from south of the Mason - Dixon line and are still fighting the War of Northern Aggression.
Also,
as I'm wrapping up my doctorate in astrobiology, I will spend a great deal looking at
objects I can't
see with my physical eye while peering off light years into the galaxy in search of life.
Indeed, those who have argued that the figure of the emperor is a sustained concern of any part of the New Testament have often found themselves the
object of ridicule and their interest regarded
as, at best, somewhat eccentric (an example of this can be
seen in R. P. Martin's remarks about Karl Bornhäuser's Jesus imperator mundi in the former's Carmen Christi).
He guides persons and
objects from within
as the soul directs the body (
see 1:399).
God includes all actual entities within himself only
as prehended
objects (
See IWM 403 - 9).
7 What Lynch
objects to is two kinds of imagination, the univocal and the equivocal, the one which flattens out all the density and variety of historical complexity through the imposition of an idea (the allegorical and didactic mentalities) and the other which
sees everything
as completely diverse and unrelated to anything else (the fideistic and the autonomous mentalities).
One can
see here the connection between the internal relation between eternal
objects, and the fact that from the standpoint of the prehending occasion, its datum,
as a logical subject placed within a functional context, is internally related to it.
(1) The concrete universal
as the individual
seen in conjunction with the thought structure implied in it, that which makes it an intelligible unity, is neither a naively conceived sense -
object, nor an abstract logical universal.
He then utilized terminology that for decades informed the basic stance of process theology on the nature of true power, though,
as we shall
see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the world by an act of suffering with the kind of power which leaves its
object free to respond in humility and love.»
Just
as the seed must learn to
see beyond the world of the seed, beyond the forms and
objects found there, so reason must learn to
see beyond its world, beyond its logic, beyond the forms and
objects found in it, for its «Other» and Ground.
As Ambrose, the fourth - century bishop of Milan, told the recently initiated: «You must not trust, then, wholly to your bodily eyes; that which is not
seen is more really
seen, for the
object of sight is temporal, but that other eternal, which is not apprehended by the eye, but is discerned by the mind and spirit» (Ambrose of Milan, De mysteriis, III, 15).
For it is only when it is plainly
seen that the great purpose is the building of the universal Kingdom of God, and that the
object of human living is the development of the human spirit, that the irrelevance of such things
as material success becomes apparent.
At times, even to this day
as we have
seen, they understand the beautiful, the valuable, the purposeful
as mere projections of our own «subjective» desires and wishes back onto the blank indifference of the material
objects abstracted by science.
I think its good to have the awareness that people may
see us
as objects and not like it.
From this standpoint we can
see why it is inadequate to describe the agape of God only
as the spontaneous, unmotivated, uncalculated self - giving of the Holy God, regardless of the value of its
object.
Neither prehension nor intentionality describes the exclusive agency of a self - contained subject, nor the exclusive agency of an
object as strict realists such
as Brentano would have
seen it.
I can therefore
see an
object in so far
as objects form a system or a world, and in so far
as each one treats the others round it
as spectators of its hidden aspects which guarantee the permanence of those aspects by their presence.
- «The scholarly community will need to
see the full report and images of the artifacts to make a judgment in regard to the interpretation of these
objects as coins,» Steven Ortiz, associate professor of archaeology and biblical backgrounds at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, said.
We
saw that for Farley theological inquiry is defined
as precisely theological by the nature of its subject matter (or «
object» of inquiry)-- namely, faith - within - its - situations.
Now, with that in view — which I think is a reasonable objection to a document which wants to be
seen as, above all things, «reasonable» — why would I
object to the whole thing
as «obscuring the Gospel»?
This also means that Mays fails to do justice to Whitehead's early remarks wherein the concept of God is
seen as a principle of limitation beyond the realm of eternal
objects (SMW, chapter 11).
But he goes on: «When these images clash —
as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken
as certain that the writer is not
seeing a mental image of the
objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»
As we shall see in the next section, Whitehead's principal version of symbolic reference becomes his means of relating images or sensa as directly perceived to the objects which cause the
As we shall
see in the next section, Whitehead's principal version of symbolic reference becomes his means of relating images or sensa
as directly perceived to the objects which cause the
as directly perceived to the
objects which cause them.
By making language use its central
object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead
saw himself
as combating.
For Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these
objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9
As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensation
As we have
seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external
objects as causes of sensation
as causes of sensations.
His solution was the disengaged form, but with that the form of the
object becomes abstract — not in the sense that it is grasped
as an abstract essence but insofar
as it no longer remains the form of that individual — and this is the problem that Whitehead
saw and tried to solve.
These may then be
seen as the
objects of Christian mission, for heathens need to be saved from darkness, ignorance and sin.
We should emphasize the unity of God and
see the «natures»
as abstractions, descriptions from particular viewpoints of how God
as a whole functions in relation to the world and to the eternal
objects.
On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an
object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form
as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (
see RB 278 - 284).
As we have
seen, what the examination of perception brings to light for Whitehead is an occasion of experience which is a self - creative process, a subject synthesizing past
objects into a novel unity.
Whereas Aristotle,
as we have
seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject -
object structure
as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.
It is at the opposite pole from
seeing the client, or oneself,
as an
object.
In entering into relation with its mother the child completes this distance, and it is only later when he ceases to enter into relation that he
sees her
as an
object and falls into the I - It's shaping and elaboration of the distance.
An abstract or ideal thing that has no reference to «particular feelings, or emotions, or sensations» is what Whitehead later would define
as an eternal
object (
see PR 44).
The artist, or «onlooker»
as Buber calls him, is not intent on analysing and noting traits,
as is the observer, but instead
sees the
object freely «and undisturbed awaits what will be presented to him.»
If the entire process of nature is a becoming,
as Whitehead
sees that it is, then this becoming must generate eternal
objects.
On reflection we can
see that the above argument for the internal relatedness of God
as cognitive subject presupposes that there are alternative possibilities for God, at least with respect to what creatures, or what states of creatures, He has
as objects of knowledge.
He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring
object) which Whitehead refers to
as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 —
see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e.,
as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies
as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).