Sentences with phrase «wholes as aggregates»

Leclerc (this volume) has clearly shown that stability of hierarchically structured wholes (of a low or high level of complexity) is incompatible with the understanding of such wholes as aggregates (see also Leclerc 1972, Chs.

Not exact matches

Instead, aggregate pricing for the platform as a whole.

As a whole, during fiscal 2015, our directors attended approximately 98 % of the aggregate number of Board meetings and meetings of Board committees on which they served, and 13 of the 15 director nominees had perfect attendance.

Even while the tech sector as a whole is experiencing a correction, year - over-year, aggregate digital health investment increased by nearly 50 % in the first quarter of 2016.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

Even though Whitehead says «the novelty received from the aggregate diversities of bodily expressions... requires decision» to reduce it to a coherent expression (Modes 36), still the diversities once received are determinate object / parts logically required to remain as they are in order to retain the self - identity of the process / whole.

In the latter, a higher - level of actuality has emerged, thereby giving the society as a whole a unity of experience and activity Kim's position, however, does not allow for such a distinction: «Atoms and their mereological aggregates exhaust all of concrete existence....

Let God occupy the same spacetime as the world without his being locatable in any single part or aggregate of parts, without being locatable as the whole.

Yet it is still true that within the family is a nucleus of growth, action, and character development which determines largely the course each individual will take, and through the aggregate of many individuals the course of society as a whole.

Arsenal may have lost 4 - 3 on aggregate, but the performance of the team as a whole, and Rosicky in particular was promising.

As we developed the site, and the blogosphere began its conjecture, the one fundamental insight of this new media age was proved conclusively to me: as a whole, in aggregate, the open source nature of the web will tend to get it righAs we developed the site, and the blogosphere began its conjecture, the one fundamental insight of this new media age was proved conclusively to me: as a whole, in aggregate, the open source nature of the web will tend to get it righas a whole, in aggregate, the open source nature of the web will tend to get it right.

Unlike Lord Ashcroft's marginal polls (which are actually a series of individual constituency polls in seats that are marginals, which we can aggregate together to get an extremely large sample across a group of marginal seats) ComRes's poll is a more traditional marginals poll — a single poll of a group of marginal seats, meaning it gives us a measure of those seats as a whole, but has far too few people to tell us anything about the individual seats within that group.

Human capital consists of the skills possessed by individuals and, in the aggregate, by the labor force as a whole.

To facilitate a comparison between the United States as a whole and other nations, the aggregate U.S. trend is estimated from that same 14 - year period and each U.S. test is weighted to take into account the specific years that international tests were administered.

Those results are aggregated in the present analysis to generate imbalance scores for New York City as a whole in order to match the treatment of NYC in the ECCI.

An accountability system that recognizes this will not only aggregate the progress of individual students but also gauge the way in which the school as a whole and the collaborative groups within it contribute to and connect with the larger community.

Typically, formal student achievement data is aggregated, or reported for the population as a whole — the whole state, school, grade level, or class.

This page includes data aggregates by school as well as for the district as a whole.

Corporations as a whole cut back as aggregate demand drops.

This aggregate portfolio review allowed me to ascertain a good feel for the relative valuation of the index as a whole.

The value of common stocks increases without taking wealth away from anyone; in fact when the stock prices increase, the amount of aggregate wealth increases for society as a whole.

The remaining unitholders of record of converting advisor - class units as of the Conversion Date will receive a number of whole converted common class units of the same ETF with an aggregate net asset value («NAV») equal to the aggregate NAV of the units converted, based on their respective NAVs as of the Conversion Date (the «Conversion Ratio»).

In aggregate, these stories can define our field as a whole, as well as how people direct their support.

Your whole argument denies the logic and mathematics of causality and it denies essentially the entire professional peer reviewed literature in its ongoing aggregate on the subject as to where all this heat came from since the late 1800s.

A more experienced engineer then was able to come in and demonstrate that the aggregate behavior of the exposure system could be calibrated as a whole, with a simplifying approach involving only a few inputs and measurements.

The project must be analyzed as a whole (i.e., in aggregate) for all minimum program requirements (MPRs), prerequisites, and credits in the LEED rating system.

The aggregated numbers from those statistics will also provide benchmarks so that when law firms start collecting similar information, they can compare themselves to the profession as a whole, she says.

Thus, the costs of privacy and security are properly attributable to the suite of administrative simplification regulations as a whole, and the cost savings realized should likewise be calculated on an aggregated basis, as is done below.