Sentences with phrase «sense purposive»

Quite obviously, individual human actions are in this sense purposive.

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He calls the gene «selfish», in the sense of blind and impersonal, but in doing this he is actually positing a law of purposive survival which pertains to the gene as a unit of existence.

Its perspective in the largest sense will be ecological — seeking the unity and harmony of man with man, man with environment, and man with the vitalizing, creative, purposive powers that throb in the cosmos itself in its thrust forward.

In other words the system is directive, or if we like to use the word in a very wide and loose sense, «purposive.»

This implies that all emotional and purposive response must be considered derivative from the more primary conscious perception of those universals constituting the data of sense perception (PR 246).

If the universe is in any sense globally purposive, then mentality would have to be a pervasive and not merely a localized, fragmentary aspect of it.

In addition, Hartshorne holds that every lesser organ and organism is organic» in the sense of being parts of the one supreme cosmic organism, the universe, which he regards as a well - unified, purposive whole.

In its broadest sense, we may initially state the cosmological principle in a process - based ontology as follows: the emergence of purposive actions and consciousness within the creative and novel concrescence of an evolving physical and biological universe.14

True, Kant discussed art as «purposive without purpose» — in a sense, autonomous.

As such, the decision provides a strong signal to the arbitration user community that the English courts are — at least in this context — likely to adopt a more «common sense / purposive» and less literal approach to contract terms when seeking to ascertain the parties» intentions.