Votsis (2011) considers examples of continuity and discontinuity in physics.
So, there will be a discontinuity at 12 at the latest.
But to avoid the discontinuity of emergentism, de Chardin embraced panpsychism.
The difficulty presented by a threshold is that it imposes a moral discontinuity over psychologically continuous attributes.
Earlier scholarship on Middle Stoicism tended to accentuate the degree of discontinuity between it and the "Old Stoa".
The sudden discontinuity at 4.23 MHz indicates the first appearance of the high-density condensate as the cloud undergoes a phase transition.
Moreover, the discontinuity between individual and group level attitudes concerning the conclusion is such that the presumption of mindedness is not defeated.
Similar concerns are put forward by those who stress, contra Darwin, the discontinuity between humans and other animals (Penn et al. 2008).
The first and true sense of divisibility for Avicenna, physical divisibility, is the form of division that actually brings about a separation and discontinuity within the magnitude.
He already sketched this argument in Herr Dr. Hengstenberg, of 1839, publicly breaking with orthodox and conservative versions of Christianity, and stressing the discontinuity between Christianity and Judaism.
However, some commentators are skeptical of Gintis's suggestion that there was a genetic discontinuity in the evolution of human sociality.
