Sentences with phrase «which by repetition»

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Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

At the risk of repetition (a risk from which, according to some regular readers, I do not often shirk) in the case of China and the United States, I would summarize very broadly by making two points.

Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.

The church has lost some of its power to hold people in that peculiar bond of fellowship which is forged by communal repetition.

If the Incarnate Word is a Word that makes all things new then we must not naively believe that it is only the world and not the Word which is affected by the process of Christian «repetition.»

By contrast, we can see that repetition is a necessary... conduct only in relation to that» which can not be replaced.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

For elucidation of the difference of the repetition of the singular to the forming of laws, Deleuze points to Kant's paradigm of the «Categorical Imperative,» which states a individual standard as general law of the same or similar actions, and opposes it to Nietzsche's anti-legalistic postulate of the «eternal return»: It is the repetition of the singular which can not be understood by any law.

For the Western world, the main alternative to the pattern of repetition of the foundation - story in the individual life story developed in the Hebrew and Christian vision of sequential, successive time, a time of historical struggle and openness, a time which did not wash out the unique, unrepeatable event, but dignified it by giving it its own place in the unrolling process.

For the Protestant, so deeply influenced by Luther's rediscovery of the Christian faith's historic core, there is not so much a continual repetition of the suffering of Christ as an eternal model, a «once for all» to which the Christian must look backward.

The differences between the kinds of things in nature then go back to the different contrasts, repetitions, divisions, or modes of integration involved in the chains of prehensions by which actual occasions make up societies with different defining characteristics.

Whether we conceive of religion as a quest for original participation, or as a repetition of an unfallen Beginning which abolishes the opposites by negating the reality of the profane, it is clear that Christianity can not be judged in this sense to be a religion, or at the very least that the Christian faith is finally directed to a non-religious goal.

The worldly view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding of the one thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding of the narrowness and meanness of mind which is exemplified in having lost one's self — not by evaporation in the infinite, but by being entirely finitized, by having become, instead of a self, a number, just one man more, one more repetition of this everlasting Einerlei.

But if this novelty did not make us think, then hope, like faith, would be a cry, a flash without a sequel; there would be no eschatology, no doctrine of last things, if the novelty of the new were not made explicit by an indefinite repetition of signs, were not verified in the «seriousness» of an interpretation which incessantly separates hope from utopia.

From this standpoint an occasion is absolutely other even though conditioned by the ground of its own being and becoming which is at the same time the ground for the impossibility of its repetition.

It is unlike it at several important points: (1) it is engaged in not alone but with other people, some and perhaps many of whom are likely to be strangers; (2) it is conducted by someone usually a minister or priest — and is channeled through regular forms; (3) there are appeals to the eye in the sanctuary's architecture and appointments and to the ear in music and spoken word which are not usually present in private worship; and (4) in the singing of hymns and the unison repetition of prayers and responsive readings there is opportunity for corporate vocal self - expression.

You might «bracket» the metaphysical question by saying we just do have continuities in which there are repeated characteristics — repetitions of characters over what he calls routes of events.

Even in the case of «enduring objects» which are characterized only by «survival» through repetition, the process is an act of conformity by the «members» and not one imposed upon them.

(And God knows that he — along with the limitations provided by the other data from which a new entity originates — can bring about the repetition of certain abstract characteristics, or there would be no «order of nature.»)

Now with Panama invaded, we Latin American Christians feel indignant when we hear the count on North American victims of an operation that was planned with evil intentions and hypocrisy, and yet nothing is said about the hundreds or thousands of Afro - Indo - Latin American lives... destroyed physically or psychologically by such an abominable adventure, which is a repetition of past crimes in Santo Domingo, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador... etc., in an endless list.

The ordinary way in which nature achieves order through time is by means of repetition or re-enactment.

In the first case, we advance toward a duration more and more scattered, whose palpitations, more rapid than ours, dividing our simple sensation, dilute its quality into quantity: at the limit would be the homogeneous, the pure repetition by which we shall define materiality.

Hellenism was replaced by the Hellenistic epoch in which genius was stifled by repetition.

This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formulæ, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence — it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.

As worlds of gods and men are, for the Buddhist, consciousness, ruled by everlasting necessity, so also are the worlds of ideas and of verities: for these, too, there is one, and only one necessary form of knowledge and expression, and the thinker does not make this form but he adopts what is ready to hand... and thus those endless repetitions accumulate which Buddha's disciples were never tired of listening to anew, and always honouring afresh as the necessary garb of holy thought.18

It would show that Jackson would likely struggle picking up new concepts which would likely be taught to him with a whiteboard and he wouldn't have time to learn simply by multiple (years) of repetition.

It is now incumbent upon this court to fix custody in this case, applying the principles summarized in In re Marriage of Winter, 223 N.W. 2d 165, 166 - 67 (Iowa 1974), which are recognized by both parties and need no repetition here.

Accustomed as I am to the mendacities of politicians, even I am now faintly staggered that at the very same time as Baron Mandelson was trying to dismiss my book as fiction, he was furtively rushing together his own «memoir» which confirms by repetition several of the episodes first revealed in The End of the Party.

And there was a nod to JFK's inaugural address in the claim that «a new generation has taken charge» — an act of rhetorical homage which was then bathetically ruined by Miliband's clunky repetition of the words «I get it».

As head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Clinical Decision Making Group, which works to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine, Szolovits knew that intelligent systems could optimize care by working together better to eliminate errors as well as avoid repetition of medical tests.

At some point, though, these step - by - step movements become habit and you switch to the second type of learning, which is based on unconscious repetition.

Muscles have fibers which adapt to a high volume of repetitions which are a core part of a standard training regimen, by which the number of mitochondria inside the blood cells increases.

Technique can be enhanced by using short rests between repetitions, which reduce variability in horizontal displacement.

Since it is difficult to maintain proper Power Clean technique for more than 3 repetitions, you need to break these repetitions down into Cluster Sets, which means you could do 2 repetitions followed by 20 seconds rest, followed by 2 repetitions followed by 20 seconds rest, followed by 2 repetitions.

We termed this «Capillary Conditioning» to maximize the ability of the capillaries to deliver blood in and out of muscle cells to prepare the athlete to be able to lift more weight, with more repetitions / work by stimulating development of Type llA Fast Twitch Muscle Fiber (Fast Oxidative / Glycolytic or FOG) and less buildup of bulky muscle tissue which is poorly conditioned for aerobic capacity (Type llX Fast Twitch or FG muscle fiber).

Vikings Wolves of Midgard is a passable Diablo clone, full of fresh ideas for the genre, none of which really fits into the gameplay, let down by repetition and peculiar game design choices.

The game's music is «inspired by» The RZA of Wu - Tang Clan, which is good enough for a couple of great tracks, some okay ones, and plenty of repetition.

Then there's Walter Matthau's prolonged drunken cameo, which seems to rely on the old «funny by repetition» trick.

The extra content expands on what was already a large game, though ultimately it suffers from repetition which will only be alleviated by how intensely you enjoy the setting, combat and customisation.

Spaced repetition uses the «spacing effect» which essentially says that by spacing out the information over time rather than cramming it into one session or a short time period, you will improve your long - term memory.

As an educational technique, it is characterized by self - paced, self - administered instruction, which is presented in a logical sequence and with multiple content repetitions.

We can reinforce the effects of repetition by providing some additional «boosting events» after the training, which will maximize long - term retrieval of information.

The simple process of repetition also has an important effect: thanks to «neuroplasticity», the process by which the brain can «rewire» itself, repeating knowledge and techniques can precipitate structural development of neural pathways and subsequently bring about real, lasting change in the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals.

These words and phrases are also presented in my free cards for ANKI with which you'll memorize the information by the spaced repetition method.

The final, most compelling reason I don't care for the Student Achievement Partners questions is that although they teach the reading — the content of the text — there's no attempt to teach the reader strategies by which that reader can pursue meaning independently, yes independently (notice my repetition for emphasis modeled after Because of Winn - Dixie).

The model of adaptive learning that is made possible by metrics included in digital textbooks helps students maximize their study time by deciphering which parts of the material the students have already mastered, while helping them pinpoint which areas still need focused attention and repetition.

It helps you to create your notes clear and well organized by splitting content into labeled columns which minimizes repetition.

For my most recent paintings this involved beginning by choosing a basic compositional structure, which is usually a single form, like a circle, or the repetition of a form — an arch or line.

Meppayil works «suggest that through meditative repetition, tradition remains in motion, guided equally by the history of craft and the hands through which it passes.»

Using the potential of the most modern media technology, these artists give visual form to philosophical questions, which involves dividing time up into small sections and holding it up as if in a loop, by continual repetition of the same process.