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Whitehead chooses a way of defining the actual entities that makes them all alike, qua actual entities, with a single exception.
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Whitehead and chooses
The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead chooses to define a breach as any leap in which at least 40 % of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40 % clearance.
Whitehead and way
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
The newspaper reported that trees blocked the way after the flight was in progress, and quoted Whitehead as saying, " I knew that I could not clear them by rising higher, and also that I had no means of steering around them by using the machinery.
" Steeves related that Whitehead said to him, " Now since I have given them the secrets of my invention they will probably never do anything in the way of financing me.
Peter Whitehead led the way by removing the engine from F2 / 5 and installing it into a Cooper T24 chassis, which he ran in the 1953 British Grand Prix.
Whitehead and actual
The ultimate abstract principle of actual existence for Whitehead is creativity.
For Whitehead, actual entities are of two kinds, temporal and atemporal.
With one exception, all actual entities for Whitehead are temporal and are occasions of experience ( which are not to be confused with consciousness ).
The one exceptional actual entity for Whitehead is at once both temporal and atemporal: God.
That some occasions of experience involve experience in the mode of presentational immediacy is the one and only reason why Whitehead makes the occasions of experience his actual entities ; for the actual entities must be of the ultimately general kind.
The actual entities of Whitehead, the occasions of experience, are logically atomic in the sense that an occasion of experience cannot be cut into two other occasions of experience.
Whitehead did not define the topology of his actual entities in modern terms, but it seems that he envisaged them as convex compact or ' oval ' sets in Minkowski space.
For Whitehead, besides its temporal generation by the actual entities which are its contributory causes, a process may be considered as a concrescence of abstract ingredient eternal objects.
The primordial nature of God consists of all potentialities of existence for actual occasions, which Whitehead dubbed eternal objects.
The show used actual businesses and homes in and around Holmfirth, including Sid's Café and Nora Batty's house, a real Holmfirth residence owned by Sonia Whitehead.
* Nexus ( process philosophy ), a term coined by Alfred North Whitehead to show the network actual entity from universe
Reluctant to do so, Whitehead was inspired to slash the actual canvas with a knife.
Nine actual war correspondents are listed as " For the War Correspondents " in technical advisor credits: Don Whitehead ( Associated Press ), George Lait ( International News Service ), Chris Cunningham ( United Press ), Hal Boyle ( A. P.
Whitehead and entities
Since Whitehead, process thought is distinguished from Hegel in that it describes entities which arise or coalesce in becoming, rather than being simply dialectically determined from prior posited determinates.
Indebted to Henri Bergson's philosophy of change, Whitehead was also a Platonist who " saw the definite character of events as due to the " ingression " of timeless entities.
Panexperientialism, as espoused by Alfred North Whitehead, is a less bold variation, which credits all entities with phenomenal consciousness but not with cognition, and therefore not necessarily with full-fledged minds.
Whitehead and them
God encompasses all the other occasions of experience but also transcends them ; thus Whitehead embraces panentheism.
Some of the obiter dicta Whitehead spoke on these occasions were recorded by Lucien Price, a Boston journalist, who published them in 1954.
However, today most students of logic are more familiar with the works of Frege, who actually published his work several years prior to Peirce but whose works remained in obscurity until Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead made them famous.
Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf ( 1 January 1874 – 10 October 1927 ) was an aviation pioneer who emigrated from Germany to the U. S., where he designed and built early flying machines and engines meant to power them from about 1897 to 1915.
Whitehead also built gliders until about 1906 and was photographed flying them.
Gunther said he had been having " cordial " conversations with the Smithsonian about giving credit to Whitehead, " but after O ' Dwyer blasted them in his book, well, that totally turned them off.
Whitehead and Pankhurst maintained they still had the freedom to fight for abstentionism within the CPGB, and they formally fused with them at the second Communist Unity Conference in Leeds, January 1921.
Many German-Americans translated their names or altered them to resemble English names ( a trend which had begun in the 19th century, e. g. Gustave Whitehead ).
Then a finer statement of the s-cobordism theorem is that the isomorphism classes of this category ( up to Cat-isomorphism of h-cobordisms ) are torsors for the respective < ref > Note that identifying the Whitehead groups of the various manifolds requires that one choose base points and a path in W connecting them .</ ref > Whitehead groups Wh ( π ), where
Four of them, the multi-instrumentalists Geoffrey Richardson and Jennifer Maidman, trombonist Annie Whitehead and pianist Steve Fletcher have since played some festivals under the name ' The Anteaters '.
It could be argued that the old doctrine of getting one's ship as close to the enemy and overwhelming them with superior firepower was defeated by the Whitehead torpedo.
They became popular in the 1960s, when Terry Todd and Dr. Craig Whitehead used them to test their " theory of maximum fatigue.
One of them, Lough Erne, is now preserved by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland at Whitehead, County Antrim.
Returning to England in time to go up to Cambridge where he made friends and acquaintances who would become distinguished in their own rights: d ' Arcy Thompson, W. R Sorley, A. N Whitehead and William Bateson were among them.
Whitehead and all
Russell and Whitehead thought they could derive all mathematical truth using axioms and inference rules of formal logic, in principle opening up the process to automatisation.
One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, were pioneering the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics.
For both Whitehead and Hartshorne, it is an essential attribute of God to be fully involved in and affected by temporal processes, an idea that conflicts with traditional forms of theism that hold God to be in all respects non-temporal ( eternal ), unchanging ( immutable ), and unaffected by the world ( impassible ).
Whitehead was unable to improve the machine substantially, since the clockwork motor, attached ropes, and surface attack mode all contributed to a slow and cumbersome weapon.
Whitehead supervised the doctoral dissertations of Bertrand Russell and Willard Van Orman Quine, thus influencing logic and virtually all of analytic philosophy.
A comprehensive appraisal of Whitehead's work is difficult because Whitehead left no Nachlass ; his family carried out his instructions that all of his papers be destroyed after his death.
a term that quickly became so popular, so omnipresent, that its invention within living memory, and by Alfred North Whitehead of all people, quickly became occluded ".
The original main building was expanded, and the Lockwood Building, Whitehead Building, Education Building, Warmington Tower and St James's Hall were all built during this period in order to accommodate the influx of new students.
In their book Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell attempted to show that all mathematical theory could be reduced to some collection of axioms.
The Whitehead conjecture is true if all sets are constructible.
If X is a connected cell complex with homotopy groups π < sub > n </ sub >( X ) = 0 for all n ≥ 2, then the universal covering space T of X is contractible, as follows from applying the Whitehead theorem to T. In this case X is a classifying space or K ( G, 1 ) for G = π < sub > 1 </ sub >( X ).
* CW-complexes satisfy the Whitehead theorem: a map between CW-complexes is a homotopy-equivalence if and only if it induces an isomorphism on all homotopy groups.
O ' Dwyer asserted that all the articles in Scientific American which mentioned Whitehead had been written by Beach, but did not offer proof.
They all express serious doubt or flatly dismiss claims for Whitehead.
Her four children, James M. Whitehead, Ford Whitehead, Gretchen Whitehead and David Macauley Whitehead, all adopted Roosevelt as their surname.
* Geoffrey Whitehead -- Viatorus, engineer, bringer of rain, sculptor ( unable to do noses, " not all elephants have trunks "), ...
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