Sentences with phrase «actual state»

If we are to have a truly distinctive correspondence theory of truth, we must discover in our immediate experience a correspondence between propositions entertained and actual states of affairs.

The principals noted 128 barriers, which the authors of the report compared with actual state and federal laws and collective bargaining agreements.

Re: Original post: Does the Competition actual state a billion tons per year?

The meaning of «truth» is correspondence to actual states of affairs.

From the initial definitions of this article it follows that there no such thing as a separate «statistical model» but statistically - processed outputs from actual state variables of the running «physical» model.

The chart below shows actual State Levy Tax Collections for 2010 to 2017 and then estimates that these tax collections will increase by $ 1.1 billion in 2018 due to EHB 2242 (aka the Levy Swipe).

«There are thus at least three levels of existence: the occurrence of certain actual states of individuals; the existence of certain individuals; the existence of certain kinds of individuals or of certain class properties.»

Since Whitehead divorces the nature of a proposition from its corresponding judgment, he can avoid the problems that a theory like Aristotle's encounters altogether; 6 he need not posit negations as actual states of affairs in order to deny their existence.

It is true that what will happen in the next moment is determined in large part by the previous and present state of things actualized; but each new moment, according to process thought, is also open to the infinite range of possibilities contained in the PN of God, which transcend the limited possibilities contained in previous actual states.

DiNapoli also said actual state spending rose 4 percent, rather than the 2 percent touted by Cuomo, if certain fund shifting and other measures are included.

Although the commission provided a guide for how to distribute state funds, it did not provide an answer to another crucial question: How much actual state funding do all Pennsylvania schools need to properly educate their students?

While the design of actual state CPP implementation plans could lead to different outcomes, the economics are dramatically changed with the tax extenders in place.

Does this mean that the DOJ will impose a categorical rule prohibiting a U.S. Attorney's Office from indicting a case (including death cases) because the it does not like the likely or actual state sentence (or the lack of a death penalty in a state)?

Adesina perhaps understandably but regrettably kept up the unhelpful official speak, stalling and unable to provide transparency in respect of the president's actual state of health and his capacity to function in the office.

The actual state of knowledge of the impact that the minimum wage has on employment in North America, and especially in Québec, leads to the conclusion that a minimum wage that is greater than 50 % of the average wage is harmful to small wage earners and that a minimum wage that is less than 45 % has very little risk for this group of workers.

His purpose is always embodied in the particular ideals relevant to the actual state of the world.

The first stems from the fact that the consciousness of inevitable imperfection is easily converted into a belief in some actual state of perfection lying beyond the present actual imperfect world.

the true or actual state of a matter.

Perfectibility implies an ideal state of things standing in contrast to the actual state of things.

God's ordering of possibilities is such that every possible state of the actual world is already envisioned as possible and every possible development from that actual state of the world is already envisioned and appraised.

And besides, the very next moment he would begin to confront the results of the choices, the exercises of power, granted to the creatures, and from then on his actual state, as constituting his knowledge, goodness, and power relations, would be as we have described it.

The Church, being a community of faith, must always correspond to the actual state of man's historical development.

Descartes, shared this view; he clearly teaches that God's power is absolutely unlimited, so that it is within his power to cause to be actual any state of affairs whatever (DGHN 92 - 146).

For if, as both Thomas and Hartshorne hold, it is necessary that God know perfectly whatever there is to know, and if there were no alternative possibilities as to what there is to know (whether by way of alternative possibilities for divine creativity or otherwise), then there would be no possible alternatives to the actual state of knowledge.

Part of the good news of Ephesians is that peace is the actual state of being between persons — not just a goal for the future, but a reality in the present.

What those doctrines mean is more than a universal description of the actual state of the world: they describe the most private and most fundamental awareness of insufficiency.

The objection I have in mind is that the initial state is an ideal limit and, as such, is prior to any actual state or process.

God's concrete reality, the actual states of his existence, includes just what he loves now, just what he knows now.

The ontological argument does not prove that there is any actual state.

Well, Harts - home will reiterate that possibilities, however restricted, fall short of the definiteness of actuality, and he will remind us that when we speak of Shakespeare we are referring to actuality (actual states of a man).

For example, though poets and dramatists were possible before 1564, Shakespeare (as a sequence of actual states) was not among the possibilities.

If the argument in favor of the correspondence of an entertained possibility of a state of affairs to an actual state of affairs is entirely based on coherence and consistency, we seem to be left with the question as to what more is affirmed, when we claim correspondence, than that this is the most coherent and consistent belief to hold?

They may therefore be actual states of affairs.

Specifically, we intend to show that the crucial point of difference, demanded by Whitehead's metaphysics, is the fact that for Aristotle a proposition contains reference to what is believed to be an actual state of affairs — either positive or negative — as a predicable within the proposition, and that Whitehead's theory does not have such an element.

For Aristotle a proposition contains reference to what is believed to be an actual state of affairs — either positive or negative — as a predicable within the proposition.

Why is it better to talk about a probability that is an actual state of a body (which in the sleeping state is presumably not the same as waking), than to talk about the dynamics of a telic being which, at the personal level, is to be understood in terms of activity - potentials by which it maintains itself at conscious, unconscious, and self - conscious levels?

It's hard to comprehend something the size of a state that's not, you know, an actual state.