Sentences with phrase «terms of a continuum»

Space, time, and change describe the relations of various actual entities in terms of this continuum.

Each actual entity receives its location in terms of this continuum along with its initial aim from God.

Both Bergson and Peirce declare that reality is in process and that the process must be understood in terms of continua.

In these terms the unity of consciousness which Hartshorne raised previously is explained by Brightman in interactive terms between distinct consciousness and not in terms of a continuum (my word) of one single consciousness.

Violent acts, I think, can be described in terms of a continuum or spectrum.

We see learning in terms of a continuum, one that moves in a straight line from one skill to another more difficult related skill.

Not exact matches

They may maintain those relativities and feel good for the short term, but they never move the organization along that continuum of growth because an organization only grows at the speed you grow your people.

These terms represent two continua rather than discrete categories: a contrast of discordant disparity, for instance, is identified only in relation to other contrasts in the particular event under scrutiny.

It can not be located in terms of the spatiotemporal continuum.

How does it objectify itself, if not by imposing its own «satisfaction» in terms of a unified set of feelings upon the regional standpoint which it occupies within the spatio - temporal continuum and therewith upon all the subfields to which it belongs?

«An actual entity never moves: it is where it is and what it is» (PR 113) in terms of the extensive continuum.

What he fails to spell out in detail here but indicates elsewhere (e.g., PR 96-98/147 -150) is that the extensive continuum or, more specifically in terms of our cosmic epoch, the space - time continuum is not just a single overarching community of actual occasions but an interlocking network of communities or societies of occasions, each of which possesses its own laws and proper dynamism.

The extensive continuum is the background matrix in terms of which all actual entities become.

This does not mean that Whitehead abandoned the temporal continuity expressed in the infinite divisibility of events in the writings on the philosophy of nature, but rather that this infinite divisibility was relegated to the domain of the potential in terms of the extensive continuum.

If we ask how this infinitely divisible continuum comes to be divided precisely as it does so that there is a plenum of occasions, we can not answer in terms of the efficacy of the past.

The way of distinction, therefore, puts a positive valuation on the time - space continuum and, though it sees divine redemption as the remaking of history into something new, it can not conceive of divine - human interaction in other than historical terms which preserve the qualitative difference between God and man.

Moreover, by emphasizing the notion that personality was the sum total of its constitutive relationships and was subject to the interpersonal forces at work in a given field of energy, Sullivan was expressing in psychological terms the more complicated notions entailed in Whitehead's discussion of the extensive continuum.6

Sherburne's argument against me is based on using the term «extensive continuum» to refer to the nexus of occasions that constitutes the past.

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

All that Bergson really says is that we can not know disorder without making it into an order of some sort first, and points out that the relation between the «two directions of order» is really a continuum that we distinguish on the basis of its extremes (completely free activity and geometrical mechanism, or integration and differentiation, to use the terms Gunter recommends) for the purposes of talking about this issue.

In an earlier study of preaching in the Federal Republic of Germany, Osmund Schreuder examines listeners in terms of a six - point continuum from heteronomous, group - oriented, duty - bound people, to those who are more autonomous and cosmopolitan.

Such a question can only mean, How is it related to our four - dimensional continuum according to the terms of that four - dimensional continuum?

Indeed, one must resist the temptation to think of this emerging alignment in terms of the conventional liberal - conservative continuum.

Whitehead felt that we needed a prior geometry, a uniform «structure for the continuum of events,... because of the necessity for knowledge that there be a uniform relatedness, in terms of which the contingent relations of natural factors can be expressed.

Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).

While the words «life» and «mind» refer to aspects of such great significance in the whole process that we might wish to attach special terms such as transcendence or emergence to them, we must recognize that the qualitative side of evolution, like the material side, is a continuum.

They can quite easily be located on a «contextualization continuum» (my term) according to the degree of human and cultural awareness involved.

9 In terms of Bradley's development, one can say that the early Whitehead stays close to the Bradley of PL where, in my view, the continuum of feeling enjoys precisely this traditional presentational status.

Comments praising women's physiology, using the normal female physiological continuum as the term of reference, and expressing concerns about interference in women's continuum can hardly be considered misogyny.

They're not looking at what does your child know in terms of the ABCs and those things but they're looking developmentally and they'll offer you that and can give you an idea of where your child is under developmental continuum.

«Why didn't he announce those in the March Budget if they were part of some sort of long - term continuum?

«Since two - dimensional materials can be easily visualized as meshes, we asked ourselves how these theories would look if you express them directly in terms of the positions of the atoms, bypassing entirely the common continuum approximation,» Barraza - Lopez said.

Alzheimer's pathologic change and Alzheimer's disease are not regarded as separate entities but earlier and later phases of the «Alzheimer's continuum» — an umbrella term that includes both.

ADHD symptoms were measured through a diagnostic interview and on a continuum, ranging from none to many, rather than in terms of a formal psychiatric diagnosis.

Told with a timeline that thumbs its nose at the time - space continuum, it considers the difference between vices and habits, reveals the long term toxicity of secrets, and asserts the impropriety of adding cranberries to a chicken salad sandwich.

We reported in terms of progress through a continuum of concepts.

One example of this commitment to the continuum is in New Jersey, where Garden State leaders have not only focused on successful STEM educator preparation and instruction, but are also looking at the long - term economic benefits coming from excellent STEM teachers and successful STEM learners.

Silberman and Silberman, who first used the term in their 1967 paper «Hyperlexia: Specific word recognition skills in young children,» describe a continuum of reading ability with children who have disabilities such as dyslexia on one end, children with no reading problems in the middle, and at the other end children who «are able to recognize words mechanically at a higher instructional level than indicated by their intellectual potential.»

One teacher explained, «I think we're all on some sort of a continuum in terms of practice and blending theory and practice and I think that it matters where you come in on that continuum as to what you get out of the different experiences.»

Think along the continuum of anything from early brain development and vision to later - term issues such as skin problems, allergies and arthritis.

Their mission is to find a safe, loving long - term relationships between companion animals and people by providing a continuum of services and programs that are innovative, personalized and high quality.

«We defined through a World Health Organization consultation held in the late 1980s the terms and categories of animals, mostly dogs, in relation to rabies control or elimination, along a continuum from «fully owned» to «strictly feral,» acknowledging that all states in between might exist under certain circumstances,» explained Meslin, who now heads the WHO Department of Food Safety Zoonoses & Food - Borne Diseases.

We are, all of us, in various positions along a continuum of lesser to greater individual or family climate virtue, whether by intention, by pre-existing preference, or by level of means, though in the developed societies, we are as individuals and families bunched towards the less virtuous end of the spectrum in terms of the stability of the climate.

And even if our perception about the formal - to - informal continuum of lawyer commentary changes in terms of social acceptance, we should still be able to place it onto this spectrum.

They occur along a continuum of degrees in terms of severity.

«The key thing in that business that may drive M&A is the world is getting smaller, with shrinking distance between producer and consumer — globalization and world population shifts — think of the food business as a long continuum starting with biotech, leading to seed production, leading to crop inputs and that's where you see some activity in Canada in fertilizer in terms of potash,» explains Woollcombe.

Since relationships are long - term, this event is part of a continuum that needs to be kept going.

Summary: Gerontologist with three years experience in many areas of the long - term care continuum, including an educational backg...

Throughout the consultations for this chapter, Indigenous women, ex-prisoners and service providers emphasised the need for there to be a diversity of housing options available, ranging across a continuum from shorter term, supported, transitional accommodation through to longer term, less supported, stable accommodation.

Higher up on the continuum is something termed «active» alienation, in which the parent is aware of his / her behavior, but thinks it is necessary to protect the child from a harmful parent.