Search results for "Finite" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • the existence of points distinct from a finite list of points). Therefore ... every mathematical field, where any finite value, part of a greater ...
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  • what is transcendent by negating what is finite and relative. ... often defined in terms of the negation of finite concepts. For example, infinite ...
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  • with Kant that since human beings are finite beings, restricted by time ... his doctrine of the infinite mind. Our finite, human minds are imperfect ...
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  • (b) If there is a plurality, the finite things must be both finite ... divisible, it is divisible into either a finite or an infinite number of ...
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  • the many entities and the diversity of the finite world coincide with the oneness ... the many entities and the diversity of the finite world coincide with the oneness ...
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  • can be articulated only by negating finite concepts. Something that ... from the world. Human knowledge is finite, limited, relative, and imperfect ...
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  • For Tillich, human existence, that of a finite being, inevitably means ... our mortality" that we are finite beings. What can sustain ...
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  • who demonstrated that light had a finite speed by measuring apparent ... forward the hypothesis that light had a finite velocity, and that variations ...
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  • In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of well-defined instructions for accomplishing some task that, given an initial ...
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  • or by the Church-Turing thesis, any finite machine at all. If it is ... (a) the human mind is not a consistent finite machine, or (b) there exist ...
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  • as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive ... definitions are only possible for finite sets and only practical for ...
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  • Σ of well-formed-formulas (wffs) is a finite sequence of wffs: ... #has a finite sequence of wffs (well-formed-formula) #each line of ...
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  • for the existence of God, Descartes asserted that finite beings such as himself lacked the power to continue their own existence from one moment to the ...
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  • A rectifiable curve is a curve with finite length. A parametrization of \!\,\gamma is called natural (or unit speed or parametrised by arc length ...
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  • # A finite set of symbols which can be used for constructing formulae. # A grammar, i.e. a way of constructing well-formed formulae out of the ...
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  • saying that matter, time and movement are finite and have a definite beginning ... He ‘proved’ that space and time were finite, with a paradox of the infinite ...
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  • *Thesis: The world is finite in time and space. *Antithesis: The world ... time or not, and whether it is spatially finite or not. Reason can argue ...
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  • the Infinite (Noumena, spirit, eternal) and Finite (Phenomena, body, temporal). This does not create a true self, as a human can live without a ...
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  • through reason; humanity was weak and finite and, therefore, incapable ... God is infinitude and humans are weak and finite. He alleged that religious ...
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  • The classification of finite simple groups is regarded by some to ... An enormous theorem: the classification of finite simple groups], Plus Magazine ...
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  • of the Hilbert space. This dimension is finite if and only if the space's Hamel dimension is finite, and in this case the two dimensions ...
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  • “if, according to Aristotle, the power of any finite body is itself finite, clearly whether it be a power of moving or a power that produces being ...
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  • Xenophanes conceived God not as a finite being that exists within the realm of a spatially and temporally limited world as humans, animals, trees ...
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  • while its area remains [[Wiktionary:finite|finite]]. For this reason ... similar structure over an extended, but finite, scale range. Examples include ...
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  • *The problem whether a given given number is in a specified finite or cofinite subset of natural numbers. Examples of undecidable decision problems ...
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  • extended to paired elements in the world: finite and infinite; one and many ... named according to the following table: finite and infinite, even and odd ...
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  • *Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) *Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) including instructions to Computer Numerical ...
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  • A real number is a number that can be given by a finite or infinite ... This power series converges and has finite value if, and only if, | x | . ...
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  • to understand and define the position of finite individuals in an infinite ... possible experience of fact, of which finite beings were only fragments. ...
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  • Hertz wanted to show that the speed of electromagnetic waves was finite ... on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space] by ...
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  • would always remain limited or finite. Moreover, Ricoeur like some other philosophers thought that literature and the arts offered significant ...
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  • an infinite rock, since any rock is a finite creature; and this answers ... on divine power that would make him finite as in process theology. ...
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  • effect, the natural laws that govern the finite modes (i.e. particular entities ... that our mind is occupied with ideas of finite things (such as our body ...
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  • is established by dividing it into a finite number of cases and proving each one separately. The number of cases sometimes can become very large ...
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  • thing. This substance was God. All finite creatures were merely modifications ... by Descartes. Locke asserted that, as finite beings, we should recognize ...
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  • is tentative, tempered by a small but finite degree of doubt, since there ... are beyond the grasp of humanity's finite and limited mind, since those ...
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  • existence of each and every contingent, finite creature are distinct, while ... of being"), referring to God and each finite creature as "ipsum esse ...
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  • as between self-transcendent spirit and finite nature within the human constitution ... referring to natural creatureliness, is finite, bound, and limited, while ...
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  • But this led to questions of how humans with their finite understanding can know these Universals as an infinite God would know them. Moreover, in knowing ...
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  • pure silver melts at 961.78 °C, rest on a finite and incomplete body of evidence; ... cannot be conclusively verified by any finite set of observational data ...
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  • the physical universe are reducible to a finite number of atoms. The exact ... the physical universe are reducible to a finite number of atoms. ...
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  • of reality; and concepts of the infinite and finite. == Life == Little is known for certain about Zeno's life. Although written nearly a ...
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  • According to Aristotle and Plato, the universe was a finite sphere ... to believe that the stellar region was finite, or that all stars were equidistant ...
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  • Drifting alleles usually have a finite lifetime. As the frequency of an allele drifts up and down over successive generations, eventually it ...
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  • That a rational number must have a finite or recurring decimal expansion can be seen as a consequence of the long division algorithm, in that ...
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  • that water could be pumped only to a finite distance in a vertical tube. In exploring the paradox he decided to use mercury, which is fourteen ...
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  • proved that a sphere can be cut into a finite number of pieces, and then ... limited to, all n-ary truth-functions for finite n (it also admits of truth ...
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  • utility could only be finitely enjoyed by finite humans. that claim. They state that there is a finite existence to everything, ...
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  • of the helium-4 atoms. Thus, liquid helium has finite density comparable to the density of ordinary liquid matter. == See also == * Elementary particle ...
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  • the omnipotence of God and says that the finite God cannot avoid evil. It ... of evil. This does not mean that God is finite, but rather that Surin is ...
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