Sentence examples for configurational from inspiring English sources

The overriding theme of the theory is that stimulation is perceived in organized or configurational terms (Gestalt in German means "configuration").

The configurational notation D or L is independent of the sign of the optical rotation of a sugar in solution.

He established the principles of English metre on a demonstrably accurate structural basis; he recognized metre as a gestalt phenomenon (i.e., with emphasis on the configurational whole); he saw metrics as descriptive science rather than proscriptive regulation.

This may be overcompensating for the one-sidedness of the 'directional' interpretation, but there is no doubt that configurational analysis does play an essential role.

Hintikka and Remes distinguish between directional and configurational analysis, corresponding, respectively, to the regressive and decompositional conceptions outlined in the main document (§1.1), and argue that the latter is of far greater importance than the former.

Just as the complete causal story of the world can be told in terms of the world's having various configurational properties, so the story can be told without mentioning any concrete object at all, and simply speaking of the instantiation of the relevant properties.

The case of spin illustrates nicely both the way Bohmian mechanics treats non-configurational quantum observables, and some of the difficulties that the naive realism about operators mentioned above causes.

(Do they involve fundamental 'configurational forces'?)[5] Here, the answer is certainly negative.