Causal Abstraction Hierarchy

Famous quotes containing the words causal, abstraction and/or hierarchy:

    “There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “By “object” is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)

    “In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)