Sentences with phrase «condition of actuality»

The images, objects and materials she uses either already have or actually acquire in her work this double condition of actuality and ideality, and they manifest the tension which keeps us permanently bound to one and desiring the other.

But thc function of universals to explain the Platonist's problem of formal possibility precludes their being conceived as proceeding from actuality; they are necessarily the antecedent condition of actuality.

It is a condition of actuality.

Not exact matches

If we acknowledge that persons are capable of acting, then we must also acknowledge persons are actual; action is a sufficient condition for actuality.

Now that he has been persuaded that concrescence should initiate from a radical multiplicity of past actualities, it is not readily apparent that his formulation of the first categoreal condition has progressed very far beyond the original datum theory.

The meaning of these distinctions for my present dispute with Professor Cobb is simply this: the concept of regions as potentialities that can not, qua potentialities, be said to originate with the becoming of occasions logically presupposes as its necessary condition the concept of regions as actualities, regions which, qua actualities, do originate with the becoming of occasions.

Its function, we said, is God's conditioning of temporal actuality as a result of his prehension and harmonization of the antecedent world.

At any rate, the function that does seem relatively clear is that God conditions temporal actuality as a result of his prehension and harmonization of the antecedent world.

... prehension is a radically one - way dependence of an actuality upon «antecedent» conditions, that is, temporally prior actualities prehending is a form of including, whereby reality is enriched, «increased» in multiplicity of factors.

In the life of spirit, on the other hand, there is no stopping [Stilstand](nor in reality is there any condition [Tilstand], everything is actuality): in case then a man the very same second he has known what is right does not do it — well then, first of all, the knowledge stops boiling.

However, where it expresses an affirmation of the earthly and the historical, the reality it discloses can encompass all things only if the actualities of the world so shape and condition its being that their full significance is preserved in the divine life.

The real internal constitution of an actual entity progressively constitutes a decision conditioning the creativity which transcends that actuality.

A new actuality always arises out of a given world that «condition [s] the creativity which transcends [it]» (Whitehead, Process 43).

But humanity, as the poets tell us, can not bear much reality; and we escape the pain of our condition by resentment, a resentment attempting to reverse or even to leap out of the actuality of existence.

Freedom is an indetermination in the potentialities for present action which are constituted by all the influences and stimuli, all «heredity and environment,» all past experiences, an indetermination removed only by the actuality (event, experience, act) itself, and always in such fashion that other acts of determination would have been possible in view of the given total conditions up to the moment of the act.

A growing internationalism in Israel's life and thought furnished the necessary basis for a growing monotheism; tribal conditions had to be transcended before tribal gods could be eliminated; but when monotheism once secured a foothold, its ideal implications outran the actualities of the political situation.

A possibility is no less of a complex, with all of the appropriate ordinal conditions, than is actuality.

Rather, its actuality resides in the fact that it is the permanent background» (AR 461; ETR 176, 178) or «condition» (ETR 176) of identifiable events and as such does not itself occur or exist.

Each moment must experience a multiplicity of results, and each moment's multiplicity must be unique: God's because only God's subjective aim is conditioned by all that has been done, and every other's because the selection of others it includes and excludes is not that of any other actuality.

So, in actuality, for current conditions and a quite plausible worst - case hurricane situation, one could have much more inundation of NY right now than the movie was showing for what could happen over this century or longer as a result of sea level rise.

The actuality of the situation is, that life insurance rates are based on your current health condition and the older you get the more likely your health is going to decline, causing your life insurance to become more expensive.

Simply put, many of us have become trained and conditioned to believe that asking for support is a sign of weakness, when in actuality, it's a sign of strength and leadership.