Sentences with phrase «fundamental type of entity»

The other fundamental type of entity in Whitehead's philosophy is called the eternal object.

This, after all, is what we should expect, given that eternal objects and actual entities are the fundamental types of entities in Whitehead's ontology and that «the other types of entities only express how all entities of the two fundamental types are in community with each other, in the actual world» (PR 37).

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My point is that the repetition of entities of the fundamental types necessarily carries with it the repetition of entities of the derivative types.

The quite fundamental issue and that which specially concerns us here — for it is that which Professor Buchler's discussion has brought to the fore — is the problem of the basis upon which a distinction into «kinds» or «types» of «entities» or «existence» is made at all.

Thus, just as in Whitehead's categoreal system the two first - mentioned elements, absolute concreteness and unique occurrence, are united in the concept of a determinate, fundamental, categoreal existence (the concept of an occasion or actual entity), so the corresponding counter-elements, absolute abstractness and the character of abiding existence [lmmer - Gewesen - Sein], are joined together in another concept of an opposite categoreal type, that of an utterly abstract entity, which always was and always is, which Whitehead calls an eternal object.