Sentences with phrase «as pure possibilities»

Functions as pure possibilities are unlimited because they leave unaccounted the internal essences.

For, the activity of lifting out an eternal object and feeling it as an eternal object, i.e., as a pure possibility in abstraction from all physical realizations, is a matter of degree.

Accordingly, this «category of conceptual valuation» states that, e.g., after having a feeling of the green feeling in a previous actual entity, the present subject will in the second phase of its experience feel green qua green, i.e., as a pure possibility, in abstraction from its ingression in the actual world.

Not exact matches

The possibility that Hain could sell itself comes as the organic foods company is seeking to sell its Pure Protein chicken and turkey unit, in a move that is intended to make the maker of Terra Chips and other organic and vegetarian foods more attractive to large packaged foods companies, according to people familiar with the situation.

But, even in the fundamental thinkers of high modernity, hints can be found that knowledge requires God: Descartes uses God in the Meditations in order to escape from the interiority where the cogito has stranded him; Kant uses God as a postulate of pure practical reason in order to hold on to the possibility of morality.

Facts are graded entirely according to their correspondence with a primordial ordering among pure possibilities (even though the ordering be nontemporal and the possibilities only potentially distinct from one another as nontemporal).

More importantly, for the societal view as well as for the entitative, the primordial nature is an adjustment of pure conceptual possibilities, so that although in the former view there is a temporality to its successive reconstitution, there is no temporality in its valuation.

I wish to add that God's freedom is also temporal as well as nontemporal, and that his influence on the world, beyond his free, nontemporal valuation of pure possibilities, lies in the emotional intensity with which he freely loves the particulars of the world both for what they are and for what they can become.

The passage seems to say that the ultimate metaphysical reality that underlies and expresses itself in every concrete occurrence of actuality or value «envisages» possibilities both in pure abstraction and in their relevance for actual entities, as well as «envisaging» the actual entities themselves.

Both substantial activity and the realm of pure possibility are entirely neutral with respect to what kinds of actual entities shall occur: for example, as to the number of dimensions they shall have.

However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar of polytheism: a vision of multiple «little divinities» effecting random syntheses of differential elements within an immanent space of possibilities: a theory of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

On the other hand, the universal as such is merely pure possibility, completely indefinite and unrealized apart from the concrescence of actual occasions and implications with prehended data.

Instead of eternal objects as «pure possibilities,» what we really need are what are often called «real possibilities,» possibilities so rooted in that particular situation as to be actualizable.

One must conceive the being of such an entity as first of all a pure possibility — as a «complex eternal object.»

Pure possibilities can be understood as their formal components, abstractly derived.

It is precisely in the introduction of formative elements as conditions of the possibility of actual entities, according to Collingwood, that Whitehead differs from Alexander.25 Furthermore, the status of one of these formative elements, the «eternal objects,» is analogous to that of the «abstract entities»: 26 both are situated between the realism of ideas and pure nominalism.

As before, the question of such survival is left open, but a new note is struck by the reference to the everlasting nature of God, which is his consequent nature as the weaving of his temporal physical feelings of actualities upon his nontemporal conceptualizations of all pure possibilities (PR 524As before, the question of such survival is left open, but a new note is struck by the reference to the everlasting nature of God, which is his consequent nature as the weaving of his temporal physical feelings of actualities upon his nontemporal conceptualizations of all pure possibilities (PR 524as the weaving of his temporal physical feelings of actualities upon his nontemporal conceptualizations of all pure possibilities (PR 524).

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

The result is a scheme containing nine basic possibilities ranging from a view of God as the independent cause of the world, absolutely perfect in all respects, to a view of God as pure relativity, wholly bound up with the world process and having no element of independence, necessity, or self - existence.8 Hartshorne's position proves to be the perfect embodiment of the «golden mean,» incorporating all the positive features of the various possibilities, but excluding their (arbitrary) negations.

Of course there are both pure and impure possibilities, but no possibilities are as particular as actualities.

A proposition links a pure possibility with a certain set of indicated actual occasions as its subjects.

In its function as the sharpest focus of definite connectedness, it is likewise at the maximal remove from pure possibility.

To be sure, it is possible to interpret those particular possibilities as pure eternal objects, but it seems more likely that Whitehead was contrasting them to eternal objects, but was still groping after their proper ontological status, which I take to be real propositional possibilities requiring divine temporality.

The divine Logos, as the primordial mind of God, contains an infinity of pure possibility, but only those possibilities specifically addressed to the human situation can save us.

Otherwise, a world of pure experience degenerates into a Heraclitean flux of meaninglessness or a Hegelian determinism, where possibility is seen as necessity.

Nontemporal, he creates himself as the envisagement of the infinitude of all pure possibilities.20 Just as the world acquires a future from God, so God acquires a past from the world.

This is because, as Cobb and Griffin (1976) state, «One aspect of God is a primordial envisagement of the pure possibilities.

Whitehead was saying there is a grasping at a new possibility, a feeling out, groping, establishing something not just as a result of pure chance.

Indeed, his proof shows quite forcefully that quantum mechanics poses special problems for any view that, instead of regarding real (as opposed to pure or purely logical) possibilities as subjective fictions, accords them objective status and makes them independent of the observer.

The attempt to define «pure potentiality,» as an ultimate range of possibility that has no restrictions (where anything at all is possible), rather than defining it as the supreme range of possibility presented by the cosmically complex and inclusive determinations of the divine series, will always fail.

With Whitehead we can make a formal distinction between two natures or aspects of God's actuality: his primordial nature as the locus of all pure possibilities, which God draws upon in order to provide the initial aims for each emerging event, and his consequent nature as the ultimate recipient of all actuality, which is perfectly experienced and treasured within God.

We may equally well designate the primordial aspect the nontemporal dimension of God's being, for it is God conceived of as divorced from time, wholly independent of the world, timelessly envisioning the entire multiplicity of pure possibilities.

There are so many possibilities of error such as bad ingredients, rough handling of the dough or pure carelessness.

If anything, he's an agent of pure chaos, and that possibility goes unexplored as well.

It is committed to romantic optimism, to the possibility that love can win out against the odds — that it can endure as something pure and idiosyncratic, in a way that only Cassavetes could conceive.

We appear to be in for something of an island romantic comedy, as the two unlikely allies — rough, masculine, faithless orphan marine Allison and the simple, pure - hearted Angela — go hunting for a turtle together and consider the possibility that they'll have to survive on the island's ample natural resources for years to come until a rescue.

There's the possibility of something less - than - pure to Carol's pursuit of Therese, either through the suggestion that she sees the younger woman as a replacement for her daughter or the more obvious prospect that she is using the naïve Therese's adoration as a way to reclaim the power that Harge has taken from her.

The Lorinser Easybrid Smart ForTwo was born from the tuner's idea of adding an electric motor to a conventionally powered car with drum brakes on the rear axle, which will also offer the driver the possibility of traveling in pure electric mode as well.

As Bell has stated, «my work is for the dreamers» — opening up the possibility for looking and seeing in as pure a way as possible — using physics in the service of the sensuousness of individual human visioAs Bell has stated, «my work is for the dreamers» — opening up the possibility for looking and seeing in as pure a way as possible — using physics in the service of the sensuousness of individual human visioas pure a way as possible — using physics in the service of the sensuousness of individual human visioas possible — using physics in the service of the sensuousness of individual human vision.

Beyond representing the possibility of a President Trump, like in Mike Judge's irreverent and anti-intellectual Idiocracy (2006), Doomocracy is pure satire — a counter-site employing the discourses of the extreme right as a platform for play.

Just a few years later, Richter would style himself as a German «Pop» artist, but in the 80s he returned to pure abstraction for its possibilities of «bitter truth, liberation, and... a completely different and new content... expressing itself.»

«From the beginning we looked upon the term [Zero] not as an expression of nihilism — or as a dada - like gag, but as a word indicating a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as the count - down when rockets take off — ZERO is the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.»

PRESS RELEASE: As photography's designation as a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminenAs photography's designation as a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminenas a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminent.

It represented the» incommensurable zone in which the old state turns to the new... a zone of silence and pure possibilities for a new beginning... «Also, as a numeric symbol, zero signifies «nothing,» an erasure of the past, yet the circular form represents «everything,» a promise for the future of humanity, art, and technology.

When I enter that space of pure thought (which I like to think of as inhabiting a child's state of mind), creative possibilities are limitless.

As photography's designation as a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminenAs photography's designation as a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminenas a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminent.

The fact that GISS shows more warming since 1990 than any other dataset indicates this possibility (and the others are not pure as driven snow here either).

As much as Samsung fans would want this to be the Gear S4, there's also a possibility that this might be a successor to the Gear Sport, but that's just pure speculation at this poinAs much as Samsung fans would want this to be the Gear S4, there's also a possibility that this might be a successor to the Gear Sport, but that's just pure speculation at this poinas Samsung fans would want this to be the Gear S4, there's also a possibility that this might be a successor to the Gear Sport, but that's just pure speculation at this point.

Granted, there is always the possibility of human error and as such, the Moto X Pure Edition could have come out on top.