Sentences with phrase «derivative type of entity»

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My point is that the repetition of entities of the fundamental types necessarily carries with it the repetition of entities of the derivative types.

In Whitehead's cosmology, however, some types of derivative abstractions are constituents in every actual entity.

«5 Presented as one of eight derivative categories of existence the concept «nexus» denotes that type of entity which is brought into being as the relational complex of two or more actual entities grouped together into a composite whole.

That is, just as a Society is metaphysically a derivative type of existent inasmuch as its constituent actual entities are ontologically ultimate, so in an equivalent fashion, a civilized society is metaphysically secondary inasmuch as human beings are more real, ontologically speaking, than is the larger civilized society.