Sentences with phrase «usual notions of»

The essay, Notions de Futur in its creators» native tongue, explores «the evolution of notions of space, time and society from 2000 to 2099,» and the designs offer a thoughtful counterpoint to usual notions of the «futuristic.»

And their leadership initiatives, often involving strategies of nonviolent suffering and ultimate respect for being, constitute affronts to our usual notions of relevance.

He conceives these natural «entities» in contrast to the usual notion of a thing.

Neither the usual notion of matter nor the usual notion of mind helped in understanding these discontinuous events that seem to be the ultimate entities of the natural world.

A game form is similar the the usual notion of game, except that you do not provide a priori the preferences of the player over the possible outcomes.

This goes way beyond the usual notion of self - publishing as either an alternative or a pathway to a traditional book deal.

The usual notion of arbitrage involves putting two market orders at different exchanges.

Not exact matches

For now, however, we have crossed a boundary and notions of normal or business - as - usual should be put aside.

In «My Own Life,» a short autobiography composed shortly before he died, he wrote: «I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early.»

Each of these statements presupposes a particular set of environmental conditions in order to hold; and when the notion of environment is made explicit, the usual criteria do not suffice to distinguish between them.

And while this certainly holds true for Kung Fu Panda 2 - which takes the first film's goofy notion that a panda bear can be the son of a goose and goes about explaining said relationship with a giant vat of sticky sentiment - the follow - up to DreamWorks» 2008 hit is still more than a cut above the usual family fare.

The most interesting notion that the new «Tomb Raider» reboot has to offer apparently comes from the 2013 reimagining of the original»90s video game: It gives us a Lara Croft who's capable but not superhuman, making her more like Bruce Willis» legendary John McClane (in the first few «Die Hard» movies, anyway) than the usual impenetrable war machines who so often anchor action flicks and video games.

This also refutes the usual notion that the only software and hardware combine that could meet the demands of the business world is the Windows 7 perhaps on the upcoming HP Slate.

As usual with Rolf, i sense the text is very very slightly overdone, just too much of a stylish prose, but it is just a very fragile notion.

The Vita version also includes higher difficulty levels that can be undertaken with each new playthrough, as well as the ability to fast - forward and rewind conversations and text, making the notion of replaying a hundred hour - plus game more enticing than usual.

During the Winter Workspace, Wube will explore notions of perception divergent from his usual anthropocentric subject matter, in a stop - action animation short based on studies of Wave Hill's local plants, insects and animals and how they «perceive» their surroundings.

Precession dominates * midsummer * high - latitude insolation (the usual Milankovitch metric), but obliquity has a stronger influence on Huybers» notion of «summer heat» (which takes into account the astronomical influence on length - of - season.

In the case of CCS, this provides cover for the notion that we can can continue to exploit fossil fuels in a business - as - usual manner, because we will be one day bailed out by technology.

Anyone who still clings to the notion that maintaining the «Business as Usual» automobile centric paradigm in which it is necessary for a single occupant to be esconced in a 3000 lb steel shell to travel from point A to point B doesn't yet understand the full implications of physical limits on a finite planet containing 7 billion plus Homo idioticus.

In contrast, in the field of climate change quackery the usual methodology does away with such notions and typically involves a reliance on cherry picking.

That last bit refers to the notion of «additionality» — a concept that grew out of the Kyoto Protocol as a way of valuing carbon offsets against business - as - usual.