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Absolute alterity, as long as it remains absolute, cannot be apprehended at all; there is, effectively, no such thing.
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.
Diligence removes impossibilities.
some things, once altered, are not easily undone.
The ability of extension lies in responsibility
There is changeability in process, but invariance in outcome.
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
To change with change is the changeless state
Arise without conditions, away from cause and effect, when the whole of existence is conditioned and relative, and is within the law of cause and effect?
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there.
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
Behavior of a system whose parts display a choice cannot be explained by mechanical or biological models.
Section) undergo opposite senses of deformation. An alloy with a higher modulus of elasticity has greater stiffness or rigidity for elastic deformation. For
The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.
The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world - the real world, if you like - is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable.
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.
If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.
The form is the possibility of the structure.
It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.
Change is possible.'
'Change is inevitable.
Unlocking purpose is a function of a response to something
The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.
The claim that there cannot be an infinite regress of contingent ontological causes raises a truly difficult challenge to pure materialism; but to imagine that it can be extended to undermine the claim that there must be an absolute ontological cause is to fall prey to an obvious category error.
Among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.
can be made? Since we have made an
I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
We must understand variation.
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
When you set an intention, you can create transformation.
We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.
Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.
The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.
Confusion is not an ignoble condition
Enhancement, Not Alteration.
By what criterion ... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
There must be relaxation in full extension.
Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.
Man can change his conditions by changing his words.
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
Necessity is the author of change.
(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
We declare that the world is not a mosaic, where a plurality of worlds which are essentially strangers to one another are fitted together, but that it is an organism - all of whose parts are governed by the same principle, revealing it and allowing reduction to it.
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
What is thinkable is also possible.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
Form ever follows function.
Existence is an imperfection.
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science ...
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .
Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.
Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.
There are no circumstances in the world that determined action cannot alter, unless, perhaps, they are the walls of a prison cell, and even those will dissolve and change, I am told, into the infirmary compartment, at any rate, for the man who can fast with resolution.
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility.
Conformity is deformity
A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
[A]rt can't ever be programmatic ... it needs on the contrary to be complicating, subtle, questioning, doubtful and doubting.
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.
Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. "How
For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.
The only coherent explanation of contingent intentionality is the existence of some necessary being, an agent from whom all other intentionality derives but who does not require further explanation.
impossible is not a word
Indecision is the key to flexibility.
Cooties, doesn't show possibility shows impossibility.
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.
I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
minds must remain in possibility
Transformation is forbidden.
presence of such a
A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
And where a solution appears possible, the new logic provides a method which enables us to obtain results that do not merely embody personal idiosyncrasies, but must command the assent of all who are competent to form an opinion.
We must have tranquillity." "In a technological world," MacDonald said, "change is inevitable. What you must have for tranquillity is reasonable change, manageable change.
Everything is strange, complex and complicated, but this are the features which make it incrediable.
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)