Sentences with phrase «feature of all actuality»

As the ultimate Principle of possibility, a necessary feature of both actuality and nonactuality, it is the source of all states of affairs in the universe.

The initial aim guiding each act of becoming to fruition is a pervasive feature of all actuality, yet only humankind, to our knowledge, is consciously aware of it.

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By thus generalizing what is manifest in our experience of the world into a necessary feature of every final actuality, Whitehead arrives at what I have termed the thesis of solidarity (MT 227).

It was with a view toward the elucidation of the world's connectedness, Whitehead himself informs us, that he chose the basic working hypothesis of his philosophy — namely, that the final actualities of the world have the necessary features of acts, or occasions, of experience (AI 283f; see also PR 65, 114, 217).

For example, Robert M. Palter writes that «creativity is not only a necessary feature of any possible world but it is the single trait common to all actualities» (WPS 111),

He draws a three-fold distinction among essence (the most abstract feature of what a thing is), existence (the fact that a thing is), and actuality (the particular characteristics that qualify an existing thing).

A concrete entity is, in each and every one of its features, settled, all the alternative ways it might have become and hence might have been an actuality having been resolved.

The conclusion that they must be analogous follows not from their evident similarity, but as a deduction from the metaphysics of materialist physicalism, with its «Democritean doctrine of mereological supervenience, or microdeterminism» (SM 96), according to which all the features of all wholes are ontologically reducible to the most elementary constituents of nature, This metaphysics, according to which these elementary constituents are devoid of experience and thereby of internal relations, does not allow for the evolutionary emergence of higher - level actualities with genuine causal powers of their own.

That this is indeed to be expected follows from two other features of this metaphysical position: the distinction between lower and higher levels of individual actualities, and the distinction between genuine individuals and aggregational societies of such.

It follows that metaphysical principles are essentially positive, that they identify features, meanings, or characters which, while present in every actuality, yet exclude no conceivable entity or state of affairs.

As to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they are.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

I take the original wording to be «their subjective unity of aim,» where aim is conceived as a common feature by which all feelings are ordered together.15 Note that the unity of aim is quite static, for the divine conceptual actuality is itself static.

The main point to be stressed here is that the fact that the world is composed of actualities with this two-fold power is not a contingent feature of our particular world.

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The four features are the highlights, but the totality celebrates the diversity of cinematic forms in early cinema: 30 - second «actualities,» newsreels, cartoons, political tracts, documentary exposés, and more.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Featuring remarkable performances from Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) and Shirley Henderson, it detailed the hard actualities of settlement and early exploration in the U.S. through the eyes of women.

Lallatin traces its volcanic and seismic actualities; locates water sources and the relics of previous inhabitants; and identifies landscape features that will conceal her mobile shelter from public view.

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