Sentences with phrase «when classical ideas»

Quantum theory began to take shape in the early 20th century, when classical ideas failed to explain some observations.

Not exact matches

Instead of rejecting every idea of an active and acting God when she rejects classical theism, Sölle might profit from approaching empirically the working of grace as Wieman did.

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

... By 1949, when urban, classical, tribal, and primordial imagery had been successively eliminated from his work and his shapes gradually enlarged, Rothko devised the concept of pictorial «clarity» as «the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer.

On the other side of the exhibition, Sérgio Sister recontextualizes classical ideas about the canvas as a window in his exploration of the intricate relationship between colors when they interact with space and air.

At a time when moralisers can not give any real meaning to classical ideas about right and wrong, they try instead to make people feel guilty about their impact on the environment.

When a claim is made that one of the great classical problems has been solved, the ideas of the solutions must be expressed in a more approachable way as every weakness of the exposition is certainly taken as an indication that an error is hiding in the badly presented details.