The essence of mechanical explanation, in fact, is to regard the future and the past as calculable functions of the present, and thus to claim that all is given.
But in astronomy, physics, and chemistry the proposition has a perfectly definite meaning: it signifies that certain aspects of the present, important for science, are calculable as functions of the immediate past.
That definite antecedents bring forth a definite consequent, calculable as a function of them, is what satisfies our intellect.
The universe became a system of points, the position of which was rigorously determined at each instant by relation to the preceding instant and theoretically calculable for any moment whatever.
This corresponds to the knowledge or Calculating Science in the Protagoras; but we cannot understand what its function is, in the Gorgias, because the calculable elements are incompletely enumerated.
Nature is not so thoroughly rationalised and calculable as such a point of view would have us believe.
For they are only so calculable on the basis of the given fundamental characters of the world.
Now, the manipulation of these materials is a calculable process, and succeeds at last.
If the world-wide realm on which the sun never sets can produce armies calculable only in millions, as it most assuredly is able to do, let them come forth, or be brought forth.
As these lines are written German-American official relations seem on the verge of rupture and our embassy's remaining days in Berlin appear to be calculable in hours.
Greater or less, they are the net result attributable to the enterpriser's skill, and bear no fixed or calculable relation to any capital investment.
Constant efforts are made by insurance companies to guard against these "moral risks," the least calculable of any.
He took a wife, as we have seen, to adorn the remaining quadrant of his course, and be a little moon that would cause hardly a calculable perturbation.
For the bulk of mankind the humanity worshippers point of view seems unattainable at least within any calculable time.
The service of Humanity is the sentiment of a refined mind conversant with history; within no calculable time is it likely to overrule the passions and direct the conduct of the mass.
The calculable effect on labor psychology may have revolutionary significance.
The calculable effect of the appeal to capital to assume the responsibility is in the long run of passing importance, as under the present business arrangement that is the position capital occupies.
The values in other cases are calculable from the formula 1/2(1O9 deg.
So long as a person does what he wishes to do, there is no compulsion, however much his wishes may be calculable by the help of earlier events.
He asked for it, and to school him she consented to flatter with her recollection of his commonest words: '"Dealing with subjects of this nature emotionally does, not advance us a calculable inch.
The cerebral processes appreciable upon the Outer plane, and calculable by Science, represent no more than a tithe of brain-activities.
But if these habits are constant and calculable we call the vitality of them mechanical.
Apart from miraculous intervention, therefore, the assumption seems to be inevitable that the intermediate processes are calculable too, and compounded out of the others.
A perfect society would need no such engines at all, but a perfect society implies perfect individuals, and I think we are now persuaded that a society of this nature is a purely academic proposition both now and in the calculable future.
Now, from the beginnings of conscious life, man has found himself surrounded and besieged by un-calculable phenomena.
True, the Matterhorn's are more calculable and predictable, but that does not prove unconsciousness.
Indeed, in the mass, human action is calculable with precision--witness the various kinds of insurance.
Why then deny consciousness to the Matterhorn, because all its actions are calculable and predictable?
It must therefore be a benefit to the community, if this element of unavoidable chance cannot be reduced as a whole, at least to regularize it and make it exactly calculable for any individual.
The sickness or soundness of a consumptive may be a clear and calculable matter.
The happiness or unhappiness of a consumptive is quite another matter, and is not calculable at all.
Buckle in England, to make the comparisons in the statistics, and show that individual crimes as well as virtues are always calculable from general material conditions.
They are to lead a student to do something every day; to aid him to overcome those tendencies to procrastination, self-confidence, and passive absorption which are the regular and calculable dangers of youth.
No human employment is more free and calculable than the winning of language.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calculable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
