Sentences with phrase «definiteness of an actuality»

The subjective form in a particular actual entity, he tells us, unlike the abstract eternal object, is an «element in the private definiteness of that actuality» (PR 444), and the subjective form can not be torn apart from its particular subject without becoming a mere universal (PR 354, 356).

It is obvious that if the definiteness of an actuality preexists the actuality as a possibility, the actuality preexists itself, granting that definiteness is actuality.

Well, Harts - home will reiterate that possibilities, however restricted, fall short of the definiteness of actuality, and he will remind us that when we speak of Shakespeare we are referring to actuality (actual states of a man).

Not exact matches

Thus for Whitehead the «eternal objects,» or pure «forms of definiteness,» as such, precisely do not constitute actuality.

Insofar as «form,» thus understood as a real ground, brings a natural entity, or more exactly, its «matter,» to its requisite definiteness, it must be regarded as the ground of the actuality of the entity.

Concreteness refers to the definiteness, the actuality of an event (like the grandmother's death); limitedness refers to everything that this concrete event can mean — which is not absolutely everything, but everything this event means.

Hartshorne's identification of actuality with definiteness means that actuality is the limit — the zero case — of indefiniteness.

Charles Hartshorne holds that concrete reality is actuality and that actuality is definite or determinate.1 Does he mean only that definiteness or determinateness is a distinguishing mark of concrete reality?

Hartshorne's view that definiteness is the touchstone by which the actual is distinguished from the possible, and indeed the very meaning of actuality, is familiar to process scholars.

On the basis of our prior discussions, it can be said that coming to a knowledge about anything, be it God or other actualities, is a process of moving from depth (molar bodily valuation in the adverbial mode) to clarity (the abstracted definiteness of the accusative mode).

It is a real ingression into actuality, but it is a restricted ingression with mere potentiality withholding the immediate realization of its function of conferring definiteness» (PR 290 - 91 / 445, my italics; cf. PR 44 / 70).

God is deficient in concrete actuality, as Whitehead said, because every time the adjusting of abstract possibilities to concrete events butts up against complete definiteness, the existence that makes the final decision shifts from God to the presently emerging creatures.

In the case of these actual entities also, however, concrescence would always mean an increase in definiteness, in actualized characteristics, even though those actual entities either completely avoided or greatly postponed the attainment of a satisfaction, of a total actuality.

The account of this totality to which Wieman referred was clearly an early formulation of the process of concretion which, in Process and Reality, is the process by which individual actualities acquire concreteness, or definiteness.