Sentences with phrase «spatial relations to other»

«On this theory,» says Whitehead, «all that there is to be known is that inexplicable bits of matter are hurrying about with their motions correlated by inexplicable laws expressible in terms of their spatial relations to each other.

What changes are the spatial relations to other substances, but these relations do not affect the substances themselves.

RS: We presuppose a multiplicity of kinds of things with multiple copies of each kind of thing which are not occupying the same point but standing in what can only be spatial relations to each other.

Not exact matches

He holds that in our cosmic epoch, prehension of the physical poles of other occasions seems to be dependent on contiguity, but that prehensions of the mental poles of other occasions may not be dependent on contiguity.37 By this principle we could explain our prehension of God's primordial nature and God's prehension of our mental poles quite apart from any spatial relations.

The director and his DP, Harris Savides, shot the movie largely on digital, but the film so often favours steady, patiently held compositions that allow its actors to move around within the frame and interact with each other, showing spatial relations in much the same way that Fincher is drawing connections between the facts of the case.

And yet, the works maintain an obdurate sense of object - ness, translated to schematic abstract forms: «There's a spatial or temporal proximity that induces the mind to perceive it in relation to its surroundings, while on the other hand [the work is seen] as a complete volumetric structure on the surface.»