Sentences with phrase «actual events of the world»

They also see this theory as leading people to depreciate that actual events of the world viewing them as appearance and the appearance as illusory.

Not exact matches

It is, on the one hand, an extension of our analysis of an emerging actual event and, on the other, an extension of our analysis of its antecedent world.

(2) Abstraction from the actual antecedent world of conditions which may fit the requirements of a hypothetico - deductive argument precludes the possibility of accounting for the emergence of a given novel event in its full particularity.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

But when we have reached that point where we believe that Scripture has said its last word to us and we are always sure what its message will be, when all around us major events are causing great changes in our understanding of ourselves and our world, then we may be finiiting the actual authority of Scripture in our lives.

This emphasis is balanced by an equal emphasis on the dynamic internal event of an actual occasion coming to be a unique individual unifying the world through a synthesis of its feelings.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Now it is exactly in situations like this — according to the standard account of orthodox Whiteheadians — that God is supposed to lure the world, by means of what he proffers to actual occasions via subjective aims, toward that falling out of events which will make his future experience most positive.

Leaving for a moment the imaginative experiment we have been considering — the case of the plunging piano — let us look at some actual events in our real world.

Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts, events, natural moments, or actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

It is precisely this coincidentia of the opposing realms of the sacred and the profane that makes possible Christianity's celebration of the Incarnation as an actual and real event, an event that has occurred and does occur in concrete time and space, and an event effecting a real transformation of the world.

The Fall is an actual and real event; the world and human existence are judged to be actually and truly estranged from their original divine ground, and consequently the process of redemption must occur in the arena of concrete time and space.

From Ely one gets the picture of a God who somehow (being uncreated in time) stands back of the order in the world — a primordial God who exists apart from the order and / or the ordered events which make up the actual world.

The wealth of possibilities is not simply «there» as a present and completed fact, subsisting as a latent condition that is in some sense independent of the world of actual events.

It pertains not to history as a firsthand description or recording of actual events (Historie) but to history in the sense of the phenomenal life of humankind in the world (Geschichte).

Also for the old historicism, actual spatial - temporal events mirror, or sometimes fail exactly to mirror, the eternal ideas and principles of that same world beyond history.

But to the degree that the becoming of the event approaches the actualization of its aim, that specification becomes a realized qualitative determination which objectively qualifies the present past of the event and thereby qualifies the past actual world as held in the present.

What we perceive in the presented present, then, are events on the front surface of the time cone of events in the causal past of actual world.

The eternal object, the timeless qualitative determination prehended by the event as an internal specification of its becoming, has then divergent functions with respect to the self - differentiation which the event has gained for itself in its relation to its actual world.

By this he means that in the perishing of its interiority the event has become an element of an exterior actual world whose novel becoming has already begun in this perishing.

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

An event lays hold of one of the possibilities which the ambit of the actual world leaves open.

Panexperientialism resists the completely deterministic interpretation of this idea, according to which the temporally prior condition fully determines every present event: When the event in question is an individual occasion of experience, it has a mental pole, which is partly self - determining (In Whitehead's words, the ontological principle «could also be termed the «principle of efficient, and final, causation,»» because it says that «every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason either in the character of some actual entity in the actual world of that concrescence or in the character of the subject which is in process of concrescence» [PR 24].)

The actual redemptive presence of God in the world is discerned less in God's taking the sovereign lead in events and more in God's picking up the pieces after history has misfired.

Incarnation is an actual event in the history of Spirit: God «empties» himself completely of his transcendent form and is now becoming totally incarnate in the world.

Space - time structure concerns relations between and sustained by the actual occasions of the universe; it is not an actual thing in which the real events of the world occur.

Each «microscopic process» of the becoming of an individual entity or event is a particular internalization of the entire «macroscopic process,» which is the whole actual world as it gives birth to that event.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

Because it is metaphysically impossible for God to be love without the world, traditional Christian doctrines such as creation from nothing, God's power to act unilaterally, and God's foreknowledge of future events as actual are logically inconsistent with understanding God as love.

Even if it made sense to speak, as Whitehead does, of a «world» as the «relative actual world» of a unique event — then how do such «worlds» stand in relation to that real level of abstraction (cf. 2.4) on which actual worlds and actual experiences interact and interpenetrate one another, the level which Whitehead sometimes defines as «nature»?

Rather, these basic constituents are events or happenings: they are actual occasions which have a subjective side, as «puffs of experience, and an objective side, as genuinely there in the world and as making up that world for what it is.

If we shift our focus to Christ, understood as the divine reality as incarnate, foremost in Jesus, but also in some measure in the church and the world, then the focus on the actual course of historical events and on the presence of Christ in those events, seems necessary.

Everything I've read are either historical accounts of major events in the ancient world (ie somebody like Livy gives you general outlines of the foundations of Rome, and then during the actual Republic / Empire period they give you major events, but not what the government did, and the issues it dealt with, and how it dealt with them, on a day to day basis.

This year's event drew roughly 1000 of us, many fresh off campaigns, and it was a true joy to get to learn from people who are applying online orgnizing principles in the Real World (i.e., we got to listen to actual practitioners rather than the usual loud voices that hog the stage at these things).

We have recently developed strategies for identifying youths at risk, for helping to prevent them from descending into a destructive fantasy world and for reacting expediently in the event of an imminent or actual shooting [see box on page 57].

Rather than alluring to the obvious shocking facts and events affecting our planet and way of life, audiences actually see Al Gore for what he's really doing in real life «being the most influential person of his generation» inspiring others to take up arms in the fight for Climate and how the world's democracies are politically unwise when it comes to using the actual solutions.

For the first time on Xbox LIVE ® Arcade, recreate actual battles during the last phase of World War II and experience the dramatic events of D - Day as they unfold in your hands.

Thankfully, it wasn't enough to ruin everything that came before, and the actual footage of the real - life events of the original documentary is a classy touch that does inspire by reminding us that there really are people out there that care enough to try to make a difference in our world, one person at a time.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

First Class integrated actual historical events and meshed them with the fantastical world of mutants creating a fun and highly intriguing alternate reality.

Niccol, who up to this point has earned a good reputation for exploring themes of reality vs. fantasy, takes a story wholly rooted in real - world politics based on actual people and events and makes his least believable film to date.

Although the actual events of the story are fictitious, as adapted by Jeffrey Caine (GoldenEye, Inside I'm Dancing), the world of Kenya and its politics is every bit as vivid in detail as if this were based on a true story through first - hand accounts.

While American Dreamz does base most of its satire on real - world people and events, ultimately, it is too much of a fantasy to really make more than a passing connection to the actual counterparts, effectively diffusing the incendiary qualities that really would have made a lasting impression.

To cope, many of us turned to games for escapism, to explore worlds of color and fantasy in contrast to the often overwhelming events of actual life.

MAYDAY 109 by Samuel V Franco and Evan Kilgore Based on actual events, a young John F. Kennedy struggles to save the crew of his PT Boat after it is sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.

The scale and scope of these events takes the attention away from West Coast / East Coast rivalries, and smaller rivalries between towns which, to a degree, anonymizes the actual, real - world locations each player represents.

I question some of the time lines she used in relation to actual world events and happenings.

While details on the actual footage are scarce, due to Konami prohibiting any photography during the event, the game apparently operated on a seamless open world which has wowed the audience of the event.

You are given one free try a week to score as many points as possible in a scenario based on actual events in the world of baseball, with subsequent tries at the challenge costing $ 0.25.