Sentences with phrase «conceived as single entities»

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The novel beginning is assured because each actual entity, as it begins its life, must embrace a multiplicity never before embraced, assured, that is, if its single aim can be consistently conceived.

Further, it is not entirely clear in Whitehead's writings whether God is to be conceived as a single, eternal actual entity, or whether, after the manner of other personal beings, he is to be regarded as a personally ordered, temporal series of actual entities.

Because Whitehead conceives the human psyche not to be a single actuality, but a temporally - ordered society of occasions of experience, and further believes all actual entities to be occasions of experience, he is able to use «the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediate present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions... to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature» (AI 284).

Each divine occasion (if, as I hold, God is better conceived as a living person rather than a single actual entity) must receive its being from its predecessors, and I can image no beginning of such a series.