Sentences with phrase «epochal becoming»

But it makes sense for Whitehead to shift from a theory of epochal time to one of epochal becoming in order to formulate a rule by which his earlier theory might be excluded.

Insofar as epochal becoming is ignored.

Epochal becoming thus presupposes for its own possibility self - creation, which is precisely what we should expect for Whitehead's theories of epochal becoming and creativity to cohere with one another.

This would merely transpose the problem of analyzing epochal becoming to another level, not resolve it.

1 The first two alternatives alluded to in Ford's title are (1) John Cobb's theory of epochal becoming to the exclusion of real genetic successiveness (with which the present paper is in general sympathy), and (2) Edward Pols's claim that Whitehead's theory of genetic successiveness is inconsistent with the theory of epochal becoming.

Not exact matches

The epochal nature of becoming displaces time from within an epoch to the succession of epochal states.

I have discussed (in Section V) a principle that is implicit in Whitehead's epochal theory of time: the principle that every act of becoming is such that there is another act of becoming that is immediately later.

I shall argue that Whitehead did in fact badly misinterpret Aristotle's concept of substance, as Eslick claimed, and I shall suggest that, far from amounting to an inconsequential error in historical exegesis, this misconception was a strong influence in turning Whitehead's metaphysics in the direction of an epochal theory of becoming.

It was one of several factors which coalesced to convince Whitehead that no metaphysics of essentially self - identical and enduring fundamental entities is viahle.2 It encouraged him to develop a counter-theory of epochal, successive units of becoming.

This misconception, which has ever since flourished unquestioned among Whiteheadian philosophers, proved a powerful factor, I think, in Whitehead's ultimate adoption of an atomic or epochal theory of becoming.

Whitehead's epochal theory of time circumvents this problem in a manner that is quite convincing: «there is a becoming of continuity, but no continuity of becoming» (PR 35/53).

Process philosophers must either become Cartesians and reject the doctrine of the spaciness of mind, or find an effective way of reinterpreting the epochal theory to permit longer - lasting conscious occasions, or they must reject the doctrine of the external imperceptibility of mind.

By «Parmenidean» I mean the epochal treatment of a unit of becoming.

11An actual entity does not endure as such, since its process of becoming is epochal in nature (it has duration, but not endurance), and every actual entity is «changeless» inasmuch as each is the self - same individual.

According to the epochal theory, time is not some absolute container within which actual entities become; rather, time is an abstraction from the succession of actual entities.

The theory of epochal time states that the genesis of an actual occasion does not take place in physical (clock) time; it creates a quantum of physical time: in every act of becoming there is the becoming of something with temporal extension; but that act itself is not extensive, in the sense that it is divisible into earlier and later acts of becoming which correspond to the extensive divisibility of what has become» (PR 69/107).

I think it is the chief source of confusion concerning the epochal theory of becoming.

Whitehead wants to circumvent this idea with his «epochal» theory of time, according to which an actual entity exists only as long as the timespan of the becoming that constitutes it (PR 308 / 469f).

I am in essential agreement with professor Sipfle on this point, but prefer to say that Bergson has a quasi-epochal theory of the duration of matter, to distinguish it from the epochal theory of Process and Reality with its absolutely distinct units of becoming.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

The practical shape makes a ton of sense and could well become more popular here as strict fuel - economy requirements force epochal changes in vehicle design and structure.

[20] Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war «schools» employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

Curated by the Museum of Modern Art's Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman and the High Museum's Michael Rooks, Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013 uses the collections of the Museum of Modern Art to examine six specific years in the history of artmaking: 1913 (the year of the epochal Armory Show), 1929, 1950, 1961, 1988, and 2013 (a.k.a. the near future, though it will have become the present by the time Fast Forward closes on January 20).

Through a subtle orchestration of space and time, light and darkness, movement and stasis, and the partially revealed and provocatively withheld, the environment of the Pavilion of Chile becomes a psychic and epochal encounter of the errancy of images and the vulnerabilities of historical accountability.

In a daring act of historical reconstruction, the curator Germano Celant, in dialogue with Thomas Demand and Rem Koolhaas, has recreated Harald Szeemann's epochal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, held at the Bern Kunsthalle in 1969, and installed by Celant at the magnificent Ca» Corner della Regina in Venice in June — November 2013.