The first antinomy concerns the finitude or infinitude of the spatio-temporal world. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference
Hence they can be individuated via their spatio-temporal properties, as indicated above. From Wordnik.com. [Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory] Reference
Strawson's further idea is that the descriptive relations are fundamentally spatio-temporal. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Frederick Strawson] Reference
It is fairly widely held that more than one object can occupy the same spatio-temporal location. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
(The same holds true for its spatio-temporal framework, consisting of objective time and space.). From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Husserl] Reference
My mind had somehow generated this spatio-temporal experience out of electrochemical information. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Lanza, M.D.: Have Aliens Left the Universe? Theory Predicts We'll Follow] Reference
Physical objects are spatio-temporal, and bear spatio-temporal and causal relations to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Dualism] Reference
Yet the issue is particularly pressing when it comes to the mereology of the spatio-temporal world. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference
Perhaps biocentrism is right -- perhaps the past is simply the spatio-temporal logic of the observer. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Evolution Reigns, But Darwin Outmoded] Reference
With special reference to the boundaries of spatio-temporal particulars, we may distinguish two main approaches. From Wordnik.com. [Boundary] Reference
The idea of a bounded community seems suspect given recent shifts in the spatio-temporal contours of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Globalization] Reference
The whole spatio-temporal world and our corporeal bodies are a consequence of the Fall, an emanation of the mind. From Wordnik.com. [John Scottus Eriugena] Reference
Betweenness is the place where compassion arises and is acted out selflessly in the spatio-temporal theatre of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Watsuji Tetsurô] Reference
I think it occurs in a particular group of neurons and glia defined by a spatio-temporal envelope moving around the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Stuart Hameroff] Reference
If R is the relation of spatio-temporal contiguity, then the ideas are joined to form a judgment of regularity, a causal judgment. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
For Kant, however, the exercise of our freedom cannot be conceptually encompassed within a framework of spatio-temporal causality. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophy of Religion] Reference
The important point for both Strawson and Kant is that there must be substances for there to be a coherent empirical, spatio-temporal world. From Wordnik.com. [Substance] Reference
The Kantian tradition ties it to those enduring bodies the individuation of which gives sense and structure to our spatio-temporal framework. From Wordnik.com. [Substance] Reference
God's being and activity explain why spatio-temporal things have the properties they do but doesn't explain why they exist in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Concepts of God] Reference
If holes are entities of a kind, then, they appear to be spatio-temporal particulars, like cookies and tins and unlike numbers or moral values. From Wordnik.com. [Holes] Reference
Not relational, because the totality of universes cannot be related to any other spatio-temporal entity, yet can quite properly be said to exist. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
The crucial error in this reasoning lay in supposing that our abstract conceptions are a guide to reality behind the spatio-temporal appearances. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Leibniz] Reference
The functions crucial for mental, knowledge-generating activity are spatio-temporal processing of, and application of concepts to, sensory inputs. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference
It is also a trapped spatio-temporal stress, the nature of the stress being determined by the nature of the stressing fields comprising the potential. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
The fermions are not only indistinguishable but also have exactly the same spatio-temporal properties and relations in themselves and everything else. From Wordnik.com. [Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory] Reference
On this account, individuality is conferred via spatio-temporal location together with the assumption of impenetrability mentioned in the Introduction. From Wordnik.com. [Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory] Reference
A multi-data approach for assessing the spatio-temporal variability of the Ivorian-Ghanaian coastal upwelling: understanding pelagic fish stock dynamics. From Wordnik.com. [Guinea Current large marine ecosystem] Reference
Here too the passage to reason, sociality, and measurable time occurs because the spatio-temporal lapse is as if spontaneously integrated by consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Emmanuel Levinas] Reference
Again, worlds are more similar to the actual world the greater the spatio-temporal region of perfect match of particular fact they have with the actual world. From Wordnik.com. [My Shasta Daisy] Reference
The nature of the exclusion also explains why no two determinates of the same determinable can qualify exactly the same entire spatio-temporal part of any object. From Wordnik.com. [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference
This perspective on our actions in terms of their causal efficacy within a spatio-temporal framework is properly the domain of the theoretical use of our reason. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophy of Religion] Reference
Observation indicates that proximity to the tower engenders a sensitivity to and an ability to impact and/or manipulate local spatio-temporal random amplitude events. From Wordnik.com. [Scion of Cyador]
Classical particles could be so regarded because if a principle of impenetrability is adhered to, no two such particles ever have all the same spatio-temporal properties. From Wordnik.com. [Structural Realism] Reference
If a function is not Turing-computable it is because Turing machines lack the computational machinery to carry it out, not because of a lack of spatio-temporal resources. From Wordnik.com. [Turing Machines] Reference
The spatio-temporal, material character of particulars also contributes directly to the explanation of their suffering, and seeming to suffer, the compresence of opposites. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
As is well known, attributing distinguishing spatio-temporal trajectories to quantum particles faces acute difficulties under the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics. From Wordnik.com. [Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory] Reference
Following a distinction in Latin between idem and ipse, Ricoeur holds that the self's idem-identity is that which gives the self, among other things, its spatio-temporal sameness. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Ricoeur] Reference
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