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simple objects in a shoebox will be all you need to wow your students with science What elementary science teacher hasn't pored over school...
Often,
the simplest objects in the office can spark ideas that blossom into long - running jokes.
Not exact matches
The experiment itself was
simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task,
in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane
objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.
«Everyone's still
in the mode of copying what Apple did largely, and the 3 - D does have the effect of wiping out
simple spoofs — you can't hold up a picture anymore and expect it to do anything,» says Kevin Bowyer, a University of Notre Dame professor who studies biometrics and
object recognition.
You see, Newtons first law is
simple fact: an
object in motion stays
in motion and an
object out of motion stays out of motion unless acted upon by a net force.
For example, a
simple eternal
object, say a «particular shade of green,» can be incorporated
in «another eternal
object of the lowest complex grade,» say «three definite colors with the spatio - temporal relatedness to each other of three faces of a regular tetrahedron, anywhere at any time» (SMW 166).
Although the
simple eternal
object defines a class of particulars that as values of the variable are that definite shade of green, and although these individuals are externally related, the
simple eternal
object itself is internally related to the higher grade
object,
in that it partially constitutes its essence.
With a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the
object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was
in contact and by
simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and again.
Indeed he went to great lengths, grappled with the formidable problem of the nature of light, made incredibly subtle distinctions between various types of change, all to explain the fact that
in sight consciousness is consciousness of an
object, pure and
simple, apart from any feelings of bodily involvement.
For example, the clause -LRB-(attractive x)(kind x)(Scandinavian x)-RRB-
in our
simple program symbolizes an eternal
object in which potential attractiveness requires (
in this example) kindliness and being Scandinavian.
Therefore on the one hand they call Him the
Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning
simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent
in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6
I long for a society
in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society
in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted
in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society
in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the
simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society
in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming
objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns
in a power struggle.
When the eternal
object selected for this purpose was embodied
in the physical pole of the actual occasion felt or prehended, that is, when it expresses how that actual occasion prehended its predecessors, then the
simple physical feeling is» pure.»
(
In Process and Reality the favorite examples for eternal
objects are
simple sense data.)
Simple physical prehensions objectify occasions by eternal
objects, e.g. green, actually ingredient
in them.
However, Whitehead does not believe there is any evidence for
simple repetition based upon strict conformation from occasion to occasion, even
in low - grade enduring
objects (PR 285).
In the state of pure consciousness and pure being we are aware of that only,
simple, immutable, self - existent, without form or
object, and we feel that to be alone true and real.
This
simple analogy shows all of the characteristics of an eternal
object as it is displayed
in an instantiation.
Whitehead observes that «A pattern and a sensum are thus both
simple in the sense that neither involves other specified eternal
objects in its own realization» (PR 115 / 175).
By considering the
simplest instance of the physical ingression of eternal
objects as
in the case of two sensa (PR 115 / 176f), we see that the physical ingression of any eternal
object requires the concurrent ingression of at least two other nonidentical eternal
objects so that an actual contrast obtains.
Its teachings are very, very
simple: There really are free and natural markets where the optimum value of things is assigned to them; everyone must compete with everyone; the worthy will prosper and the unworthy fail; those who succeed while others fail will be made deeply and justly happy by this experience, having had no other
object in life; each of us is poorer for every cent that is used toward the wealth of all of us; governments are instituted among people chiefly to interfere with the working out of these splendid principles.
Gödel's result shows that not even
in terms of numbers, the
simplest objects we can specify, can natura naturans explain the individuality that we observe.
DE: This seems to me to be what his philosophy of organism should have gone for, and when he said he was trying to make this a bridge notion between the biological and physical sciences, I think the link is
in his notion of the «non-uniform
object» of which the
simplest example is the wave.
In doing science we have, on the one hand, to try to formulate simple objects which express the most important causal relations between events, but at the same time we have to ensure that these objects include (as sub-objects) as many as possible of all those involved in the even
In doing science we have, on the one hand, to try to formulate
simple objects which express the most important causal relations between events, but at the same time we have to ensure that these
objects include (as sub-
objects) as many as possible of all those involved
in the even
in the event.
Other nations
in the ANE had advanced, it is true, well beyond the stage of a
simple - minded identification of gods with natural forces or
objects.
In simpler language, we may state that primordial objects in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitie
In simpler language, we may state that primordial
objects in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitie
in the universe (grounded
in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitie
in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilities.
If now «regularity» is defined
in the sense of the «simplicity of stable mutual relations» (OT 183), then the concept of «
simple thought -
object of the sciences» can also be grasped more accurately.
I long for a society
in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society
in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted
in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society
in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the
simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society
in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming
objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns
in a power struggle.
Thus, Bergson's proto - mentalism is also interpretable as the positive face of the critique of
simple location.4 The fallacy of
simple location is the basis for the view,
in both physical and logical atomism, that the «individuality of the atom [and of
objects in general] is based precisely on its [or their] ontological separation from other simply located entities» (BMP 309).
I like its
simple and minimalist design, it is a beautiful
object to have
in a kitchen.
Most of the hazards result to hospitalization and they can be avoided by the
simple act of baby proofing crucial
objects in the home like the coffee table and the bookshelves.
To make them
simple, not cluttered with other
objects in the picture (that's for learning other info than reading).
They can name several familiar
objects in their homes or daycare settings and can make
simple two - to three - word sentences.
Talk with your baby using
simple words to identify
objects in her life.
In 13 - 18 months of age, your child will be walking by themselves, walking up and down stairs with one hand held by an adult, easily throwing lightweight
objects such as a ball, using a small vocabulary of about four to ten words, following
simple directions, and acknowledging and responding to his or her name.
Babies love to look at and touch shapes and high - contrast
objects in their environments, and
simple soft and board books are a good way to start introducing new things to your baby.
Step 3: Touch
simple pictures and talk softly as you label and talk about the
objects in the book.
[2] A further, but
simpler trick employed by SPHERE is to take many pictures of an
object, but with a significant rotation of the image
in between each.
I love the color contrast
in this image, the fact that we're seeing entirely different populations of
objects, and also the
simple idea that this is such a strange view of the Andromeda galaxy, a huge spiral so bright and close it's easily visible to the unaided eye from a dark site.
Sixty years ago a Dutch physicist named Hendrik Casimir suggested a
simple experiment to show that virtual particles can move
objects in the real world.
Although this doesn't promise to restore normal vision, «a remarkable amount of information can be conveyed
in a relatively small number of pixels,» he says, that would allow people to perhaps identify
simple objects and even recognize faces.
In this project you will try to build a
simple artificial gripper that can pick up small
objects.
Until then, scientists regarded black holes as
simple objects — quite literally holes
in space, completely described by just three variables: their mass, spin and charge.
Five - day - old domestic chicks presented with two sets of
objects of different quantities disappearing behind two screens were able to successfully track which one hid the larger number by apparently performing
simple arithmetic
in the form of addition and subtraction.
Using a
simple set of loudspeakers, scientists have figured out a way to levitate and rotate
objects in midair.
Predicting if flutter occurs, for a given flexible
object in a given fluid flow, is typically not the problem;
simple mathematical models can often accomplish this.
Similarly, perception researcher Irvin Rock, then at Yeshiva University, showed
in the 1960s that when shape or size perception for single
simple objects was made to conflict between the senses (by the introduction of distorting lenses), perception conveyed by active touch was modified to conform to visual perception.
A
simple consequence of these ideas is that as you look at more and more distant
objects, you're seeing farther and farther back
in time — sometimes very far back indeed.
The cone - shaped
objects are extremely water - repellent, improving their oil - grabbing capabilities, and could serve as
simple helpers
in oil spills.
That's because the
objects in Rhie's sample lens all lie
in the same plane and are
simple point sources, with nothing between them.