Sentences with phrase «simple location»

When we wonder how sharply a boundary separates space into «inside» and «outside» regions, simple location again offers a tempting model.

the simple truth is that, people like to explore the pool of singles by sifting through simple location based searches and not relying on an algorithm and a bunch of gimmicks, not to mention a cash grab, in order to find someone they like the look of.

A comparable case in modern thought would be the idea that Whitehead's rejection of simple location establishes the metaphysics of Hegel.

Setting up an archive by mentioning in passing some of the relevant confusions, we can begin by noting that in ethics we have just seen simple location leading to radical ethical egoism.

... the concept of matter presupposed simple location.

The critique of simple location finds positive expression in the thesis that differences in spatiotemporal relations entail lack of qualitative identity in a non-vacuous sense — a lack of identity which can not be the function of some mere accident, external to the concrete entities involved.

The colors are garish, the Ghibli touches call attention to themselves, and the action is so confined to a few simple locations that Endor eventually comes to resemble an abandoned playground, a spectacular palace of unrealized potential.

The simple truth is that, people like to explore the pool of singles by sifting through simple location based searches and not relying on an algorithm and a bunch of gimmicks, not to mention a cash grab, in order to find someone they like the look of.

The «assumption of simple location,» upon which classical physics was based, abstracts from an aspect of physical reality that must now be considered fundamental and not just accidental — time.

Capek, Milic, «Simple Location and Fragmentation of Reality,» Monist 48, 2 (April, 1964), 211f.

From that vantage point it is apparent that a propositional and rational aesthetic, while certainly not guilty of an inversion of the evidence or of the fallacies of simple location and misplaced concreteness, rests on what is derivative and secondary.

«14 Following the assumption of simple location, 15 the cosmology derived from Galileo, Newton and Descartes persistently views the objects isolated by scientific method as though they were the fundamental units of the physical world itself.

(This is the doctrine of «simple location»; Whitehead 1925, pp. 69 - 70).

In the simple location model, the function of us as teachers is to give the students «ideas» which they are to «keep in mind.»

In the present discussion, I have concentrated primarily on the consequences that follow from the «simple location» version.

Between the time when Aristotle included the «where» in his categories and the time when Whitehead criticized «simple location,» the question of places «where things are» attracted rather slight attention from philosophy.

In any case, the problems generated by diffuse location concepts are directly derivable, simply by asserting the contrary, from the problems consequent on the adoption of the notion of simple location.

Alfred North Whitehead has shown persuasively the pitfalls in the idea of simple location that underlies it.

The principles of relational power mean that influencing and being influenced are so relationally intertwined that the effort to isolate them as independent factors would constitute an illustration of either one or both of Whitehead's famous two fallacies: that of simple location or that of misplaced concreteness.

9Just as Whitehead's organic cosmology is a refutation of Newtonian material atomism with respect to the problem of «simple location,» so in a correlative fashion his organic sociology stands in sharp contrast to the modern contractual theory of civil society, which conceives of individuals as autonomous existents externally related only by agreement.

Simple location.

This process model of divine spacetime, projected from Whitehead's theory of interpoints and his critique of the Newtonian fallacy of «simple location,» slips into the logical difficulty with which process theology has accused traditional theism: It is always possible to ask whether any proposed empirical signs are signs of God, and it is never possible to provide empirical evidence with which to answer the question (1:42).

Everything suggests that the child first accepts a «simple location» relative to «things»; prior to this acceptance the child grants universal relationships unequivocally to all beings.

Alfred North Whitehead has identified the underlying assumptions as (1) the assumption of simple location; (2) the assumption of the primacy of primary qualities; and (3) the assumption that clarity and distinctness are more fundamental than vagueness.

For the notion that prehensions are vectors is a rejection of the primary doctrine to which Whitehead is opposed, the doctrine of «simple location,» which is the doctrine that an actual entity's location can be described without reference to other actualities in other regions of space and time (SMW 72, 84).

And, since Whitehead defines «matter» as anything which has this property of simple location (SMW 72), his doctrine that all actual entities have prehensions that are vectors constitutes his rejection of a materialistic view of nature.

Without this temporalization, a simple location of reality creates a false representation that excludes the fluidity of temporal relations (SMW 51).

Whitehead «deconstructs» the modern fallacy of simple location and the spatialization of reality, thus critiquing the representational assumptions of philosophy.

As a result, his philosophy struggles with questions regarding meaning and its simple location in «objective» linguistic assertions.

No simple location.

Interestingly enough, Whitehead arrives at the notion of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness through his reading of Bergson's critique of simple location and the spatialization of things (SMW 50), a critique also familiar to Derrida (MP 37; 227).

Thus Aristotle here consistently overcomes the idea of «simple location» and of purely extrinsic mutual activity, so as to conceive of natural beings as truly immanent in each other.

If one thinks of a thing consisting of such matter, without the processes that constitute the thing, one immediately thinks [246] of the notion of «simple location» just as Aristotle described in his concept of place.