Sentences with phrase «basic types of entity»

Moreover, would we not be justified in distinguishing ontology, that is, the theory of being as such, from the theory of concreteness, since the system of all the basic types of entity must exhibit some commonality among those types, however formal and empty it may be?

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It is that, while Laszlo centers upon patterns of structure and relationship which are reiterated throughout the hierarchy of entities of the world, Whitehead focuses on a primordial type of entity, the actual occasion, whose basic processes are found only in its kind and not reiterated in larger arrangements such as nexus and societies.

Ford's theory of inclusive occasions places occasions within occasions; we, however, believe that there are two types of occasions, occasions which constitute space - time and occasions which are the basic constituents of particles and, indirectly through particles, of all of the more complex entities.