Sentences with phrase «temporal duration»

This assumes that all of God's successive experiences are equal in temporal duration.

Whitehead insisted that there are no real temporal infinitesimal, that all spatially extended objects require some minimal temporal duration in order to be anything at all.

They are nothing apart from the minimal temporal durations required for their realization, so time is essential to their being.

Further, its extensiveness builds up temporal duration just as it provides the basis for spatial spread.

We might be further tempted to suppose that the first fifth is devoted to the initial phase, the second fifth to conceptual valuation, etc. lt is extremely difficult to determine whether any phases of conceptual origination should be assigned temporal duration.

With special reference to the significant impact of commercials, young people are conditioned to concentrate intensely for very short temporal durations.

Since this effort is not instantaneous, transmission must exhibit a finite ratio of temporal extension to spatial size, such as that exhibited by the perspectival spatial shortening and temporal slowing in special relativity, with the smallest quantum «volume» in our epoch being expressed by, h, the famous Planck Constant.20 For any moment, a perspective that prehends something with less spatiality than another, must prehend it «with more temporal duration.

This ethos of extended temporal duration and minimalist activity in favor of basic actions has found expressive purpose in the realm of videogames, particularly in the nebulous and under - studied area of «first - person walker» games.

Catherine Yass creates photographs and films that explore the relationship between physical and psychological space, namely how environments are constructed and experienced by their inhabitants, through an emphasis on temporal duration.

The question just raised is made more interesting by the fact that in present - day mathematical physics the belief has grown that the world may be finite, both in spatial extent and in temporal duration.

Grant that some unit interval of temporal duration has occurred, say, the first Planck time (10 - 43 second) of the physicist's Big Bang event.

This position will involve temporal as well as spatial extension.25 But though it occupies a temporal duration, it does not come into being by successively occupying the parts of this duration.

On the contrary, a fully mystical regeneration annuls or dissolves both spatial location and temporal duration; hence, the Oriental mystic invariably speaks of a timeless Eternity, a Nothing, or a Void.

This move would obviate all the talk about the divine computation of an entity's temporal duration.

The principle governing the temporal duration of divine occasions could be stated roughly: No new divine occasion commences until at least one new satisfaction of an actual entity has been reached.

Indeed the satisfaction contains, one might say, the whole of the temporal duration of the occasion.

Thus Christian can conclude: «Indeed the satisfaction contains, one might say, the whole of the temporal duration of the occasion» (IWM 30).

«When your eye looks at a curve you see it all at once, but when you hear it, you're forced to think about the temporal duration,» Twedt said.

Each installation is an immersive environment constructed as a place that encourages sensory understanding of physical space and temporal duration.

In any case, this entire discussion is a bit of a red herring because the degree of cooling appears, from the data available, to be quite limited in spatial extent and temporal duration.