Sentence examples for a temporal continuum from inspiring English sources

Thus, for example, within a temporal continuum the endpoint of a past episode or the starting point of a future one bounds in a single direction, while the point marking the end of one episode and the beginning of another may be said to bound doubly.

In the 4th chapter Heytesbury deals with the words 'begins' and 'ceases' in a way that uncovers certain paradoxical properties of the temporal continuum.

A better solution than either of these, in Origen's view, was to posit a noetic realm, created but eternal, populated by logika, or rational entities, under the hegemony of the logos, and preceding ours in the ontological hierarchy rather than in the temporal continuum (Princ. 2.9.4).

Time provides the temporal continuum in which the cosmos can develop and according to which the periods of the planets can be measured (see Zhmud 1998 for doubts that time should be included in the cosmology but note that Aristotle refers to time outside the cosmos not only in Fr. 201 but also at De Caelo 279a12, although without specifically mentioning the Pythagoreans).

Hence the Virus World appears to be a spatial-temporal continuum that transcends the entire history of life on this planet.

The leading idea of the arithmetizers was that the concepts and first principles of arithmetic and analysis are to be found in the concepts of the understanding (as a Kantian might put it), independently of one's geometric intuitions concerning any spatial or temporal continua.

The continuous formation and tendency to spatial clustering suggest that kelo occurrence and dynamics are characterized by some kind of spatial-temporal continuum, meaning that kelo habitats are continuously available over relatively short distances to their accompanying species such as epiphytic lichens (Boch et al. 2013).

This finding is expected, but a temporal trend in the development of the continuum as described above must be the result of other factors.

We propose a temporal model of structural and functional alterations in the MTL along the aging-dementia continuum.

Poetry as a temporal acrobatics, outwitting distraction.

Physical structure creates a temporal shift.