Sentences with phrase «between pure possibility»

There must be an actual entity that mediates between pure possibility, which is fully abstract, and the occasions that are coming into being in the world.

Hence, to bridge the gap between pure possibilities and their real availability to process, God has to be an actual entity in which those possibilities are contained.

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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.

Whitehead has provided us with the logical tools to make the distinction between pure and real possibility precise.

8The theory of propositional knowledge for real possibilities has strong affinities with Luis de Molina's middle knowledge, which is between the knowledge of actualities and the knowledge of pure possibilities.

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.

The paintings created between 1989 and 1994 are widely considered to represent the purest articulation of Richter's abstract technique, and represent the culmination of a rigorous investigation into the possibilities of painting.