Sentences with phrase «concrete fact of nature»

Such an idea too easily leads to the view (the «epistemological» interpretation above) that chance is not a concrete fact of nature, since everything must be methodically planned in advance.

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In the fourth occasion in which Whitehead refers to the consequent nature of God, Whitehead asserts that a nexus (a fact of togetherness) that is not a specific nexus of a concrete actual entity in the world must be somewhere.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

In this phase Whitehead proceeds from the fact that, opposed to the «concrete universe,» or to the world which embraces — howsoever — both nature and the «whole round world of human affairs,» there stands a multiplicity of theories of the world, which reciprocally influence each other and the world or are coined in these relations.