Sentences with phrase «causally efficacious»

But it is another matter concerning the occasion's prehension of God, for if «the process occurring within an occasion has no efficacy for other occasions» (CNT 188), how is it that God's internal integration can be causally efficacious?

For example, when a parent structures his perceptual field by being attuned to a possible cry from a new - born child, the infant is the source of the physical, causally efficacious feelings of the parent's experience.

Applied to sacraments, it means that the Jesus - event is causally efficacious during those occasions when the sacraments are administered in his name.

Whitehead holds that the decisions of the past occasions inescapably play a causally efficacious role in setting the limits of the present occasion.

It is causally efficacious in constituting us as the kind of beings we are.

The being [Sein] of a natural entity points, as such, to other actual entities causally efficacious within it, since what it is, is just this process grounded in others and not an inert matter within which process takes place.

It seems to me that anytime the actual entity qua actual, i.e., qua subjective immediacy, is taken into consideration, the naive realistic discourse, appropriate to cosmogonic or scientific explanation, has to be abandoned and the causally efficacious datum is to be conceived as a component of the percipient subject qua concrescence whereby transition as such is lost sight of and replaced by process.

My point is that, at the time Leclerc wrote his interpretation of Whitehead, he understood Whitehead's systematic position to be that past actual entities function in the present concrescence only as passive perceived data, not as truly causally efficacious.

What Cobb concludes, consequently, is that while all past actual occasions are technically nonexistent or no longer concrescing, theirs is most properly characterized nonetheless as a causally efficacious nonexistence (1:150).

While this twofold claim is in accord with Cobb's interest in arguing for Jesus» «causally efficacious nonexistence,» or the «unmediated prehension by a presently concrescing actual occasion of occasions in the remote past,» it is not in accord with his remarks concerning the providential guidance of God.

The region determines for the actual entity just what other actual occasions are in its past and hence, causally efficacious for it.

Finally, the id mode of the self, where reality is experienced as causally efficacious, correlates with the stage of fore - contact and the phase of physical feelings.

All of these evolving ventures depend on the cumulative character of time, whereby settled actualities are objectively immanent and causally efficacious in their future descendents.

Actual entities are causally efficacious with respect to other actual entities only insofar as they are felt, i.e., only insofar as they are objects.

This means that relationships are causally efficacious (in a Whiteheadian sense) in self - formation.

Splendid ideals are common enough, but until the ideals are fused with a concrete embodiment their power is not causally efficacious.

This structure as bare possibility is not causally efficacious.