Sentences with phrase «declaring individual identity»

Whatever Peirce meant by declaring individual identity to consist in a continuity of reactions, he did not mean that it consists in a collection of independent reactions.

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If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

Even if we could agree on the identity of those individuals who have attempted to consider the plethora of theodicies in a careful, objective manner, and even if we could determine objectively exactly which specific self - consistent, comprehensive theodicies the majority in this group consider convincing, we would not thereby be in a position to declare which theodicies could justifiably be considered plausible in the objective sense Griffin envisions.

After declaring that «everything whose identity consists in a continuity of reactions will be a single logical individual,» Peirce explained: «Thus any portion of space, so far as it can be regarded as reacting, is for logic a single individual; its spatial extension is no objection» (3.613).

The Name and Gender Marker Change Project aims to help transgender individuals reach an essential step in claiming their identity — to ensure their official documents match their declared identities.