Sentences with phrase «exist as an entity»

The foundation will exist as an entity in its own right within Church law, and Fr Trafny explains: «This is an important step, because we are moving from being a simple project to merge learning between the pontifical universities in Rome to being a new entity recognised by the Holy Father as a reference point for all dialogue involving science and faith.»

Is there any evidence that those at the top of the game have grown more attuned to the fact that a football does not exist in its corporate entity but exists as an entity given character by its fans; a church defined by its congregation, not its clergy?

Rauschenberg has choreographed these fragments, allowing them the freedom to exist as entities yet unifying them through an underlying geometric structure, a superstratum of pigment, and a consistent emotional tone.

But a search of the register run by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) reveals that none exist as an entity supervised by the regulator.

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The industry has got used to existing on lean inventories, some refineries holding less than one week's operating stock, and ignored the increasing complexity of alumina trading between big entities such as Rusal.

Today, Equitable and EQ exist as two separate entities — a B2B and a customer - facing service, respectively.

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In all of those cases, as with Axel Springer's investment in Business Insider, these deals have been driven by the desire of traditional or mainstream media entities to diversify into digital, mainly to tap into the growth that is lacking in their existing print and broadcasting businesses.

This is a shame, because, as I have previously mentioned on CoinDesk, Canada is an attractive environment for bitcoin entities to set up operations since our country does not have, for example, the state - by - state money transmitting regulations that currently exist in the US.

WBENC's robust workshops focus on what WBEs need to know to enhance their positions as suppliers: how to hone skills that are sought - after by their clients, leverage existing expertise for greater growth, and build their capacity to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of major corporations and government entities.

For all the similarities between Munger, Buffett, and Thorp, it is notable that Berkshire stands as a colossal monument to the first pair's intellectual achievements, while no such entity exists in Thorp's wake.

In the Buddhist vision, what comes together in each event are entities that exist apart from that event and take part in constituting other events as well.

A realist conceives entities as existing in some definite and discriminable way quite apart from human experience.

It means that form, and in particular the various forms of entities, are always situated within what really exists in nature as actual.

His rejection of independently existing substance in favor of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out of the feelings of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form of order is aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process of reality, are all examples of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.

His «ontological principle» precludes that, for according to it, «actual entities» must be regarded as the only real things; all forms therefore can exist only as forms of entities in which they are grounded.

Thus Whitehead can discern structured wholes that exist independently, or are integrated within a greater whole, where for Aristotle, in the case of «elements,» there is nothing much more than mere material that only potentially counts as entity.

As the tradition developed, this acute observation is lost, because the tradition is no longer regarded as arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righAs the tradition developed, this acute observation is lost, because the tradition is no longer regarded as arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righas arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righas existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righas a mysterious and powerful entity in its own right.

What the public needs to learn is that, like it or not, «We exist as material beings in a material world, all of whose phenomena are the consequences of material relations among material entities.»

in conjunction with his description of how he arrived at the philosophical realization that all actual entities exist as an interlocked community (principle of relativity).

In other words, an actual entity first exists as subject, and then as superject.

The new occasion exists as their synthesis; it includes them; it can not exist also side by side with them; for that would require that the many entities be both inside and outside the new occasion — a logical impossibility.

In his Harvard lectures of 1926 - 27, Whitehead listed the principle of solidarity as one of the six main principles of his metaphysics; he formulated it as follows: that «every actual entity requires all other entities in order to exist» (Victor Lowe, tr., «Whitehead's Gifford Lectures,» The Southern Journal of Philosophy 7/4 [1969 - 70], 332).

We recall that any logical system starts with a set of entities, as the primitive existing things within the system.

To achieve the essay's two-fold objective, I shall first argue, through a series of textual considerations, that the relativity principle must be understood as asserting that to be an entity is both to have a potentiality for being repeated and to have that potentiality realized in every actual occasion whose becoming finds that entity already existing as a fully determinate being.

(3) He regards a point as being a transient entity which exists only for an instant before «dying.»

Thus the paragraph can be read as containing what I shall call the transcendentist thesis about the ontological status of nexus, namely, that they only exist as real entities in God.

This second use suggests the following subjectivist thesis about the ontological status of nexus: When a subject actual entity prehends a nexus of antecedent actual entities, that nexus only exists as that subject's «perspective» on those antecedent actual entities (221).

The physical and the conceptual are not two kinds of entities existing side by side as sharply separated.

In Aristotle, on the other hand, though perception is an activity it involves passivity as well, and furthermore, the perceptual occasion is not a substance, that is, an individual existing entity, and it is not a temporal process.

Now it is precisely as that which exists fully, actually and as an ultimate individual entity that the Aristotelian primary substance can not be present in a subject, for it is itself the ultimate subject.

Although Whitehead's actual entities, being relatively short - lived events, differ radically from Aristotelian substances, they nevertheless have this feature in common: they alone are what exist fully, actually, and as ultimate individual entities.

Being as ontologically prior alone fully exists, while all other «entities» only have derivative existence dependent upon such being.

Here is what Whitehead said in 1911 about the theory of types: «All the contradictions can be avoided, and yet the use of classes and relations can be preserved as required by mathematics, and indeed by common sense, by a theory which denies to a class — or relation — existence or being in any sense in which the entities composing it — or related by it — exist» (MAT 293).

Thus, while God does give oneness to the world of actual entities as they are for others, the world of things as they are coming to exist in themselves remains without ontological unity.

Such a phrase would lack precise meaning, as each entity would comprise its own time - frame of reference and exist in a forced «solipsism of the present moment,» in Santayana's famous phrase.

«15 The result is a «conception of organism, of societies of entities feeling each other, compounded of each other's feelings, -LRB-(which)-RRB- is Whitehead's primary achievement... «1 6So «God is the compound individual who at all times has embraced or will embrace the fullness of all other individuals as existing at those times.

COL. NORTH: The director [CIA Director William Casey] was interested in the ability to go to an existing, as he put it, off - the - shelf, self - sustaining, stand - alone entity, that could perform certain activities on behalf of the United States.

b Secondly we must enlarge our approach to encompass the formation, taking place before our eyes and arising out of this factor of hominization, of a particular biological entity such as has never before existed on earth — the growth, outside and above the biosphere, (This term, invented by Suess, is sometimes interpreted (Vernadsky) in the sense of the «terrestrial zone containing life».

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

It is, generically speaking, a nexus, all of whose members exist in their own right as actual entities.

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

«6 He believes that among the entities composing a compound «this reciprocal acting constitutes a tie or bond between them, this bond being the relation — which exists only in the acting, and not as some tertium quid.

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

And as Whitehead says: «there is no entity, not even God, which requires nothing but itself in order to exist» (p. 94).

Whitehead would certainly agree with Leclerc that actual entities exercise true agency on other actual entities, and that this «acting constitutes a tie or bond between them, this bond being the relation — which exists only in the acting and not as some tertium quid.

The passage just cited continues as follows: «This means that by virtue of the mutual activity of relating, there exists a form or character common to the entities acting.

32 Today, the AMM no longer exists as a legal entity.

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

Cobb names God as the ethical, historical, and personal ultimate, that is, where this God is a particular actual entity A good case can be made that ethical principles, historical existence, and personhood can not exist apart from the specificity of some concrete and particular being.