Sentences with phrase «than abstractions of»

In order to avail himself of Heidegger «s «existentials» he has taken a short cut, without having made the long detour of the question of being without which these existentials — being in - the - world, fallenness, care, being - toward - death, and so on — are nothing more than abstractions of lived experience, of a formalized existenziell.

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Nissan's Infiniti tried something similar, pricing its quirky Q45 at $ 38,000 — although hardly anyone could tell, thanks to an ad campaign that focused on fuzzy pictures of trees and other abstractions rather than the car.

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

By abstraction, we can account for certain types of events, but we can no more predict the particular event than a chemist can predict the location of a single molecule in a gas - filled chamber.

Thus, terminology and levels of abstraction have been chosen to enhance the historian's craft more than his philosophy.

26 New laws and new activities result: «Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics, art, calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love — all these activities of inner life are nothing else than the effervescence of the newly - formed center as it explodes onto itself.»

One major reform that Hegel seems to have taken upon himself to effect is the production of a logical hierarchy of being that in a sense reverses the direction of abstraction of the Aristotelian logical hierarchy, i.e., that becomes more differentiated and «concrete» as it rises in generality and inclusiveness, rather than more empty and abstract.

As I'll discuss at the end of my presentation, political science only does this by dint of a systematic abstraction of our lived political experience, that is, by singularly emphasizing politics as the management of a conflict of interests rather than the prudential navigation of conflicts between competing claims to honor, or of competing claims to the good.

It's just a way that our human minds measures how physical reality behaves (some of us, like Hawking, do this better than others, but either way, it's just all in our heads, or if we write it down, it becomes an abstraction on paper.

In other words, there is a complete paradox if we attempt to look at the ordinary physicist's view of time as anything more than an abstraction.

This man in general is no more than an abstraction: he exists only on the strength of a misunderstanding due to the imperfection of language».

But Premack's findings concerning Sarah's abilities to conserve quantity, to reason analogically and to attribute object qualities to abstract symbols, does establish that primates are capable of more abstraction than Whitehead believed to be the case.

Premack suggests that the degree of abstraction can be measured by «transfer,» a similar response to conditions other than those in which the organism was trained (OAHC 424).

In the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living reality.

«They are,» in the words of Dodd, «the natural expression of a mind that sees truth in concrete pictures rather than conceives it in abstractions.

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Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher of science, recognised that the developmental nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision of how human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory of abstraction.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

And, rather than being a simple repetition of remote and abstract doctrines, it must be addressed to real concerns rather than artificial problems devised by remote theological abstraction.

The term is apt, since this movement shares many features with the romanticism of literature and philosophy — the stress on feeling rather than rationality, on individuality (e.g., the individual nation) rather than universality, on particularity (e.g., of blood and soil) rather than abstraction.

In France, Henri Bergson noted that reality is a dynamic flux, like a cinema, from which abstractions, like single frames of the film, are made; for intelligibility the abstractions must be referred back to the élan vital from which they were originally drawn; intuition is more perceptive of reality than abstractions.

The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things, as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.

Hopefully, by arranging theology this way, the study of theology leads us to action, rather than to more abstraction as commonly happens with current theological studies.

Hegel's understanding of the forward progress of the will through the history of culture is richer than Kant's, but it leads to a notion of the completion of the will in «absolute knowledge,» a metaphysical abstraction which Hegel's critics, Ricoeur among them, find pretentious and impossible.

More often than not philosophers of nature take the abstractions of science and secondary perception as the bed - rock of their speculations.

«The poem, if it be a true poem, is a simulacrum of reality — in this sense, at least, it is an «imitation» — by being an experience rather than any mere statement about experience or any mere abstraction from experience» (WWU 194).

Rather than being an abstraction from a priori postulates or a theoretical model that arises from philosophically determined first principles, pluralism for Dalits is a way of being in the world.

By understanding presence as something more than «mere appearances,» Dillenberger has come to consider abstraction the pictorial procedure by which artists penetrate beneath the visible surfaces of nature in search of a subject's «essence» or deeper truth.

Making sense of Christian history as a living resource, peopled not with venerated abstractions but men and women as alive and individual as you or I, seems critical at a time when storytelling and imitation are more the province of secular entertainment than sacred order.

You might want to explain why they believe what they do, but that's a whole other layer of abstraction, and it's more easily said than correctly done.

As we have wrestled with the question over the years, we have slowly begun to realise it is more than an abstraction, the intangible concept embodying anything that can be expressed in strings of 1s and 0s.

«A clock is a symbol of continuity; one that lasts a really long time might give people a sense of perspective, help them think about the year 3000 as more than just an abstraction,» Hillis says.

Magnetic Fields aims to change this perspective by focusing on nonrepresentational work by women artists of color, presenting a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has previously been offered.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

In Ramsay's hands, Bond would go back to being more of an idea than a man, a haunted abstraction whose penchant for violence obscures a deep wound in his heart.

The film tends to focus on two ideas: that repression in Orthodox communities gets in the way of sexual expression, which is more abstraction than anything else, and that shame is what's stopping Esti from embracing her relationship with Ronit and leaving.

Huge numbers of middle school students are rushing to take geometry and advanced algebra when their abstraction level is so developmentally inappropriate that these courses are belittled to nothing more than regurgitation and back - of - the - bookishness.

On the other hand, findings have been presented at a level of abstraction that makes their implications for specific schools and school contexts less than obvious.

A city that hasn't been featured too much in video games over the years (thank god it wasn't New York again), the developers went for an «abstraction» of their city rather than a full - on recreation.

«We wanted to come out and make a statement that said, «We want to try and do something different than the Wii, different than wands and hands, something that's magical, that takes away the abstraction, and I want a bunch of new types of games created.»»

It is much easier to convey emotion by means of abstraction rather than with subject painting.

«Other than being painting made recently, the work has no common denominator, outside of perhaps generalities of abstraction or a certain sense of scale, although many of the works have bits of the real world peeking through.

A wave of abstraction is everywhere, less as tribute than as compendium — cutting across media, across imagery, and into quotation.

In Tramas, more than 70 works from the 1980s, including drawings and installations, focus on his exploration of geometric abstraction and spatial interplay.

The exhibition brings together a diverse selection of more than fifty works ranging from abstraction to portraiture, from Norman Lewis to Andy Warhol, and including well - known works by Ligon.

Our museums haven't been attentive to the particularities of abstraction in recent years, preferring to present them as an adjunct of anything other than painting itself.

By painting the figure and the object on equal terms, Pearlstein's paintings appear to be more like still life compositions than formal portraits, and some critics even consider his work to be a form of abstraction.

Jose Angel Vincench «The Weight of Words: Golden Irony» March 9 — April 1, 2017 My abstraction starts with testimony of the violent actions on the dissidents, but more than a political statement I prefer to talk about the silence in the civil society and art.

By 1965 he took an interest in elementary geometry and abandoned his spontaneous flamelike brush strokes, shifting to a less subjective and more controlled diagrammatic form of abstraction that he found to be «more creative than working in a completely nihilistic way,» where «the limits impose a kind of order, yet the range of unexpected possibilities is infinite.»