Sentences with phrase «epochal occasions»

Indeed, one finds in others whom Whitehead read, such as James Ward, similar ideas about epochal occasions.

In short, one must decide that simple location and misplaced concreteness really are fallacies before such a method as extensive abstraction or a metaphysics of epochal occasions will recommend themselves.

God is the mutual adjustment, mutual helpfulness, the mutual support that all epochal occasions find in attaining their several fulfillments respectively.

Observation makes plain that while these droplets or epochal occasions do work in this self - centered way, yet the world does not fall into complete chaos.

Whitehead calls such a unit an «epochal occasion» (RM 91).

Interestingly, he used the terms «epochal occasion,» «event» and «droplets of existence,» but never «actual entity» or «eternal object,» suggesting that he still may have been working largely from Religion in the Making.

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

The epochal occasion which we apprehend as the present is one occasion, but it might have been twenty epochal occasions.

Not exact matches

Because every occasion must include some very general and abstract eternal objects as forms of definiteness (i.e., spatial, temporal, «epochal» ones) as well as less pervasive forms, no occasion is constituted as a heap of unileveled components, one as important or unimportant as another.

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.

The issue of extensive abstraction is also tied up in the epochal theory of occasions, which was discussed earlier in this essay».

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).