Sentences with phrase «entities as an abstraction»

(III) We may acknowledge material entities as real but dismiss the idea of mental entities as an abstraction.

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First, there is space - time itself which is denoted as an abstraction and is denied the status of a self - sufficient entity (SMW 96).

Consequently, as an abstraction rather than an actual entity, creativity must be quite other than any being or existent.

The passage seems to say that the ultimate metaphysical reality that underlies and expresses itself in every concrete occurrence of actuality or value «envisages» possibilities both in pure abstraction and in their relevance for actual entities, as well as «envisaging» the actual entities themselves.

We often say that space and time are composed of points and instants; these should be defined as systematic abstractions from empirical facts instead of being accepted as volumeless or durationless entities.

A proposition differs from an eternal object insofar as the latter refers to actuality with abstract generality, and the former refers to actuality with incomplete abstraction from determinate actual entities.

In employing it he goes so far as to demand that in the end, «no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth» (PR 5).

And, since laws of nature are abstractions from environmental order, the inference provides a context for inferring predictions about entities in the environment E as well.

Accordingly, this «category of conceptual valuation» states that, e.g., after having a feeling of the green feeling in a previous actual entity, the present subject will in the second phase of its experience feel green qua green, i.e., as a pure possibility, in abstraction from its ingression in the actual world.

In the latter book it is explicitly recognized that the primordial nature of God is an abstraction from God as actual entity, (PR 50.)

As a result, Whitehead concludes that objectification is an abstraction that does not objectify the actual entity in its entirety (S 25).

The answer to that question would be Yes if and only if all universals, including normative ones, are real only in actual entities, as abstractions from their whole concreteness.

It would be high abstraction to inquire whether a certain thing is or is not properly regarded as an actual entity, apart from consideration of the interaction of that entity with others.

It is important to distinguish actual entities as thus objectified from mere abstractions,» although Ogden is correct that much of the concreteness of the past actual entity is «abstracted» from.

Further, there is direct continuity between what is said of God in Science and the Modern World and what is said of the primordial nature of God in Process and Reality.5 In the latter book it is explicitly recognized that the primordial nature of God is an abstraction from God as actual entity, 6 yet most of the references to God in that book are references to this abstraction.

But its positive strength is (1) to provide an understanding of God's identity as an individual through abstractions alone («This does not imply that God is a merely abstract entity, but only that what makes God God and no other individual is abstract «15), and (2) more specifically, to identify God as the sole individual with strictly universal functions, defined with relation to actuality as such and with respect to possibility as such.

The emphasis on formal elements of shape and rhythm as independent entities, along with the fragmentation of forms, creates a tendency towards abstraction.

An idea of «Frankenstein Painting» (in response to discussions about «Zombie Paintings» over the past few years) include forms of abstraction that attempt to spark life and animate the canvas as its own entity.