Sentences with phrase «function as an entity»

It functions as an entity in a constant state of movement, with shifting techniques, try - outs, changeable rules and individual images that expand into series.

Before setting up your office, make sure you have all your paperwork complete in accordance to the local and regional laws that allow you to function as an entity.

The health care component must meet the requirements of this rule that apply to a particular type of covered entity when it is functioning as that entity; e.g., when a health care component is operating as a health care provider it must meet the requirements of this rule applicable to a health care provider.

Not exact matches

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office has relatively few functions compared to other local law - enforcement entities, such as the city's police department.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

While the AIIB still has many obstacles to overcome before it is a functioning entity (not least the opposition of the United States and Japan, as well as the incumbent Asian Development Bank in Manila), there can be little doubt now that it will come to fruition.

As is the case with Bitcoin and most altcoins, Litecoin is a decentralized entity, which means that it functions without a central authority or governance agency.

only actual entities can function as efficient causes.

There Leclerc quotes Whitehead as follows: «The functioning of one actual entity in the self - creation of another actual entity is the «objectification» of the former for the latter actual entity» (PR 34).

One group holds that, in view of the marked differences between God and all other actual entities, there are reasons to see the divine satisfaction as also functioning differently from the satisfactions of actual occasions.

The causal presence of a past noncontiguous occasion is real» when it is rightly felt as originating elements of feeling that are important to the becoming occasion and when intermediate occasions function primarily to mediate these elements as they are derived from that entity.

This decision can not be a function of the substantial activity as such, of the eternal objects, or of the actual entities.

Thus, every entity contributes its own particularity to the determination of each novel actuality; thus, too, every entity contributes itself as repeated; and thus, finally, every entity in its objective functioning transcends itself — it is repeated beyond itself so as to be immanent in, and given for the immediacy of, each novel actuality (PR 324, 327, 336, 366).

Therefore, «according to the fourth Category of Explanation it is the one general metaphysical character of all entities of all sorts, that they function as objects» (PR 336).

Since there are no eternal objects or pre-existing forms in Hartshorne's view, the function of the abstract pole of God can not be solely one of the valuation of such entities as it is for Whitehead.

Any entity, thus intervening in processes transcending itself, is said to be functioning as an «object».

This view, at any rate, is the only one compatible with saying, as Whitehead does say, that an entity which is actual, is actual regardless of whether its present existence is that of a subject enjoying the universe from which it arises or that of a superject functioning objectively in subsequent processes.

An actual entity is to be conceived both as a subject presiding over its own immediacy of becoming, and a superject which is the atomic creature exercising its function of objective immortality.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.

This is why, according to that principle, «it is the one general metaphysical character of all entities of all sorts, that they function as objects.

There would, accordingly, be various units of process in the universe with the larger units generally incorporating the smaller units within themselves, But each unit, from the smallest (a given actual entity) to the largest (the divine community) would be structured the same way, i.e., as a self - sustaining unity in totality of functioning parts or members.

The result tends to undermine the unity of God as an actual entity and, especially, the unity of God's functioning.

In this light, the Holiness Code functions to establish Israel itself as a holy entity, as a community different in certain ways from other peoples.

As he writes in Category of Explanation xxii: «An actual entity by functioning in respect to itself plays diverse roles in self - formation without losing its self - identity.

In contrast to the foregoing, our contention will be that the «natures» of God can better be understood, not as distinguishable parts, but as ways of indicating various interdependent modes of functioning by the whole actual entity, God.

This first function, then, would not require the functions of the consequent nature except as they are needed to complete the actuality of the entity (God) to which the function belongs.2

Hence, within the context of the metaphysical theory of the objective idealism, as elaborated in «Realism and Idealism,» the term «a priori» receives a different meaning: a priori ideas function as abstract entities, as potentialities that are gradually actualized in the evolving reality.

I have intentionally chosen as examples those areas in which consciousness seems most autonomous to show that even there the conscious element is profoundly influenced by unconscious processes rather than being a self - contained entity or function.

On the one hand, the objectified sheer matter - of - factness of actual entities is lifted, leaving a sufficient quality of concrete givenness to allow the latter to function now as «indicators.»

Visible and tangible entities must finally be understood as functions of these quite different entities — not vice versa.

For the logical constructions are complex propositional functions that represent the descriptive characteristics of inferred entities such as electrons, billiard

In the absence of such data, the phrases do not denote nonexistent or transcendent objects or entities; rather, they simply do not denote at all, and the presumed metaphysical puzzle is, as much as anything, merely a function of awkward grammar.19

This involves: (i) a given operation or function, (ii) a set of entities, (iii) explanation of the primitive ideas, and (iv) axioms as rules governing the relations of the entities.

Indeed Whitehead says that the function of God as the source of the initial aim of each actual entity»... is analogous to the remorseless working of things in Greek and in Buddhist thought.

He says, «The world is self - creative; and the actual entity as self - creating creature passes into its immortal function of part - creator of the transcendent world.

In Religion in the Making God is a non-temporal actual entity who functions as this principle, i.e.,»... the indetermination of mere creativity is transmuted into a determinate freedom.»

These organizations generally do not function as denominational entities within the evangelical world and thus, strictly speaking, are not the visible church.

As described by the UN Secretariat in a document issued on June 3, 2009, the functions of the new entity can be subdivided into four clusters:

«An actual entity is to be conceived both as a subject presiding over its own immediacy of becoming, and a superject which is the atomic creature exercising its function of objective immortality» (PR 45 / 71).

God as an actual entity does have such efficacy for other entities, but creativity is not an actual entity and hence, can not function as an efficient (or final) cause of anything.

It is always the actual entity that acts, not one of its poles as such, although in many of its functions one pole or another may be primarily relevant.

«8 Whereas Whitehead speaks of past occasions as «functioning» in the self - creation of new occasions, Leclerc tells us that in Whitehead's systematic position this «functioning» can not imply agency.9 He adds: «This should be stressed because the contrary supposition might arise from Whitehead's statement... that upon objectification an actual entity «acquires causation whereby it is a ground of obligation characterizing creativity».»

Similarly, creativity is incapable of functioning as the formal cause of any actual entity, since it is totally neutral as to form.

Since Whitehead attributes this function to God, it seems that, to a greater degree than Whitehead intended, God must be conceived as being the reason that entities occur at all as well as determining the limits within which they can achieve their own forms.

My point is that, at the time Leclerc wrote his interpretation of Whitehead, he understood Whitehead's systematic position to be that past actual entities function in the present concrescence only as passive perceived data, not as truly causally efficacious.

We can now return to the function of creativity The past actual entities, God's gift of an initial subjective aim, and God's primordial nature as the storehouse of all eternal objects provide the new entity» with the resources for its own journey (concrescence) towards a final self - identity.

Whitehead says that «two conditions must be fulfilled in order that an entity may function as an object in a process of experiencing: (1) the entity must be antecedent, and (2) the entity must be experienced in virtue of its antecedence: it must be given» (Al 229).

God thus functions as the organ of novel options for the new actual entities.

Lacking creativity - characterization and, especially, creativity - esse, they can not function as real agents, and, thus, they can not establish the new actual entity with its own creativity

Second, since creativity requires form (eternal objects) before it can function as the esse, as the being - here of any actual entity; the primordial nature also functions as creativity's «first limitation.