Sentences with phrase «which says an object»

But dark matter has never been directly detected, and in 1983 Mordehai Milgrom, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, proposed instead tweaking Newton's famous second law of motion, which says an object accelerates in proportion to the force on it.

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Proponents say such laws are necessary to give businesses run by owners with strong religious principles a legal exemption should they be asked to perform a service — such as cater or photograph a same - sex wedding — to which they object.
«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.
Burn says many men are surrounded by a culture that reduces women to sexualized objects, which normalizes female colleague in a less than professional manner.
«Uber routinely deleted files which were subject to litigation holds, which was another practice I objected to,» Spangenberg said in his court declaration.
Cortica's automotive AI technology focuses on unsupervised machine learning which, the company says, allows the intelligence system to understand a vehicle's environment and independently identify objects while on the road.
The challenge, says Cambridge Consultants» Nathan Wrench, is to overcome the uncertainty when handling something — which humans deal with unconsciously: figuring out its shape and location and how hard to grip it, and distinguishing one object from another.
'' [W] e can now get extremely sharp images,» he said, which creates «a unique opportunity to improve our physical understanding of Eta Carinae and many other key objects
«Additive manufacturing technology permits production of extraordinarily accurate duplicates of objects that are the subject of IP protections,» said Teresa Rea, acting director of the Patent and Trademark Office, which is part of the Commerce Department.
The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator — aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.
Other businesses, big and small, which object to wage increases, say higher pay will mean higher prices, and less work for fewer workers.
Ignorance is bliss they say and confronting their prejudice makes one a «troll» which is an object of supersti.tion they don't like.
We can therefore say that the right of religious hospitals to object to performing abortions, which is rooted in their right to free exercise of their religion, is at best on hold in Alaska.
Is this to say that the objects known, the actual occasions which are known by subjecting them to divisions, are realities, not appearances, in the realm of being, not becoming?
As Martin Luther once said, «Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused.
«The policy should give guidelines to chaplains that say, «Stay away from points in which believers are known to disagree,»» said Douglas Laycock, who represented the two women objecting to the prayers.
Newman concedes this dilemma, saying that «we can not make sure, for ourselves and others, of real apprehension and assent, because we have to secure first the images which are their objects, and these are often peculiar and special.»
We who live in a world which it can truly be said to have revolutionized acknowledge its social significance — and sometimes even make it the object of a cult.
Thomas follows Aristotle in maintaining that the intellect becomes all things, which is to say (among other things) that its object is not limited in the way the sense of sight is limited to the visible, hearing to the hearable, and so on.
With a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and again.
Perhaps little can be said, but this transition which originates a new process / whole must be carefully distinguished from the creative process which originates a new object / part, a one of many that is objectified in others.
Scandalously to oversimplify his argument, it is, says Heidegger, the history of this nihilistic impulse to reduce being to an object of the intellect, subject to the will, that has brought us at last to the age of technology, for which reality is just so many quanta of power, the world a representation of consciousness, and the earth a mere reserve awaiting exploitation; technological mastery has become our highest ideal, and our only real model of truth.
He says «indetermination [as to how inherited objects will fit into the actuality's satisfaction], rendered determinate in the real concrescence, is the meaning of «potentiality»» (Process 23), but indeterminacy is not about which of several «modes» (Process 23) will be fulfilled; the mode to be fulfilled has not yet been exactly specified.
In regard to Whitehead's introduction of God and eternal objects to explain human freedom he says: «If explanatory principles are available which could account for the sensation of freedom without at the same time taking us beyond the bounds of the actual world, we should explore them, and, if they prove to be consistent with the facts, adopt them in preference» (ISP 246).
I would suggest that Whitehead is saying every occasion is associated with an infinite hierarchy of relations, relations which reflect the unique determinations of the object.
«Each «section» of the stream, says James, «would then be a bit of sciousness or knowledge of this sort, including and contemplating its «me» and its «not - me» as objects which work out their drama together, but not yet including or contemplating its own subjective being» (PP1 304).
In this version the sense presentation as symbol is said to stand for the physical object with which it is causally correlated, not to another experience.
Each actual occasion prehends the space - time continuum in its infinite entirety; that, says Whitehead, is nothing but an example of the general principle (also illustrated by prehension of qualitative eternal objects) that «actual fact includes in its own constitution real potentiality which is referent beyond itself.»
At this point Cobb might be tempted to make one last ditch stand, arguing that I have begged the question by merely assuming that a structured society can not be an enduring object, whereas what he is saying, when he says that one regional standpoint can include another, is that one enduring entity, one nonspatial, serially ordered society, can still be a structured society in that its temporally successive occasions can include the regional standpoints of the «narrower» actual entities which make up its subordinate societies and / or nexus.
The note, which appeared in Wednesday's Daily Telegraph, says: «The notion that a criminal case could be brought against Lord Carey is so bizarre that we can only surmise that the object of the persistent pressure that brings these public attacks is not only Lord Carey but what he represents of biblically faithful Christianity.»
Take, bless, break, give — the bread was taken and offered to God; thanksgiving was said over it — and here we need to recall that for the Jew, all blessings have always been in the form of a thanksgiving to God for the objects which are to be blessed; the bread was broken, as Christ had done at the Last Supper and as His physical body was broken on the Cross; the bread was given — distributed, so that the believer might partake of it and thereby, as the Church believed, partake of Christ Himself and become one with Him.
That is to say, man is not, as pure naturalism would have it, merely an object in nature which is acted upon and reacts according to fixed general laws, a passive receiver of prior causes and a non-willing, non-responsible transmitter of future effects, whose consciousness and action are completely caught up in the causal nexus of matter and time.
«From indetermination accepted as a fact,» Bergson claims that he can «infer the necessity of a perception, that is to say, of a variable relation between a living being and the more or less distant influence of objects which interest it» (MM 24).
Basically freedom is not the capacity to choose any object or mode of conduct, but the freedom of self - understanding, of saying Yes or No to oneself, the possibility of deciding for or against oneself which corresponds to the knowing subjectivity of man.
We boys of a later day found lost objects sometimes by catching a daddy long - legs, saying over him a formula which unfortunately can no longer be recalled, when the great insect would solemnly point one of his long legs in the supposed direction of the lost object.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 343) John Cobb says that Whitehead»... tells us that God's ordering of the eternal objects is primordial, and that in a sense which clearly means eternally unchanging.
The refusal to use this terminology is, therefore, not at this point in itself a prior decision in favour of a Platonic conception of spirit, nor is it a prior decision whether within the world, that is to say within the domain of possible individual objects of cognition, there are any which absolutely and in every respect can be exempt from those «material» laws which we discover in the reality which we empirically experience, or whether this is inconceivable.
For precisely all that has been said can also be objected to the doctrine of the immediate creation of every human soul in the course of history, if this creation makes of God's action in a special manner a member of the chain of created causes, even if only in regard to a particular finite being, which in contrast to others and by its special individual and temporal features has no intra - mundane ground and basis.
It said it had obtained evidence «which indicates an object was removed from his throat at the scene».
Jesus Christ, is and it will be forever more the unique object lesson of living, the human being not ever, although we may be Christians we don't leave of to sin, for the very her writing she says Aerquémonos confiadamente at the throne of your handsomeness in order to reach forgiving in order to the perpetual help, in as much as not tenemos one God which not it can feel pity for of we, rather one which fué tempting all over, but without sin, according to the letter at the age of Hebrews, and the apostle John she says, whether various hubiere sin, solicitor tenemos in order to with the parent to Jesus Christ the that's right, not ever not any human being it will be the best object lesson not other than The Christ Jesus, nor Buddah bo Mahoma nor none, we don't follow to humanity rather at a God which fué tempting all over but without sin, not ever we owe put her scope in the humanity not other than in the.
Highlighting the religious meaning of the cross, he said: «The crucifix is not an ornamental object or a clothing accessory which is sometimes abused, but a religious sign to be contemplated and understood.
As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.
Romano Guardini commented in this regard on the false certainty of modern exegesis, which he said «has produced very significant individual results, but has lost sight of its own particular object and generally has ceased being theology.»
There was a Talmudic - era rabbi by the name of Akiva ben Joseph (who argued plenty with another rabbi, Simeon ben Azzai) who argued that the greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to love your neighbor as yourself (to which ben Azzai objected primarily due to neighbor not being clear enough and then said that the greatest commandment was within Genesis 5:1 — that man was created in G - d's image and thus if you hate any person, you are hating G - d).
If we ask now for the material content of this self - understanding, the only adequate answer is that it is an understanding of ourselves and all others as alike objects of the unbounded love of God, which is to say, of the inclusive whole of ultimate reality of which both the self and others are parts.
Meanwhile the object itself onto which the secondary qualities are projected is said to be made up of «primary qualities.»
DE: This seems to me to be what his philosophy of organism should have gone for, and when he said he was trying to make this a bridge notion between the biological and physical sciences, I think the link is in his notion of the «non-uniform object» of which the simplest example is the wave.
That is to say, it can be correctly defined as that which, when made the object of attentive awareness, yields the values of religious experience.
Again, there is obscurity, because he uses the term «ingression» as though the object was something existing (or «subsisting,» as was said in the controversies about abstract entities round about 1910) which «ingresses,» comes into events from outside.
Reductionism simply does what it says it is going to do, namely it reduces, from the experienced event to an intellectually constructed object, which is useful in making sense out of the particular aspect of the event we are interested in at the time.
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