Sentences with phrase «grade occasions of»

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The living body is a coordination of high - grade actual occasions....

This complex eternal object is a graded ordering of all possibilities for the new occasion as it creates itself through the process of decision (PR 374.75, 195, 373).

Indeed, the principle of limitation operates only by their graded effectiveness for new occasions.

Very complex structured societies which harbor presiding, high - grade mental occasions may move with great originality toward the fulfillment of uniquely defined, clearly entertained goals.

Thus we must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the later states of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade.

Because their prehensions are limited to a narrow range of signals, low - grade occasions are radically constrained in their potential for integrating the rich givenness of the world.

Third, the primordial nature of God makes this graded relevance effective in the world through providing the initial aim for each concrescent occasion.

Thus, God's grading of the eternal objects solely in terms of their relevance for one another provides general potentiality, while relevance for particular occasions constitutes real potentiality.

Therefore, God can not grade the relevance of eternal objects for specific actual occasions in some absolute, non-world-prehending manner.

In cosmic sweep, the events or occasions of the lowest grade are those in empty space.

However, as realized, the ideals are graded in value with respect to what will enhance the present self - creation of the actual occasion.

We must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the latter stages of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade (PR 261).

The distinction in process thought is not between the two component elements of matter and spirit conjoined to form a person, but between high - grade, or coordinating occasions, and low - grade occasions in a living nexus, each of which is its own reality.

Also I have suggested that the aims of low - grade occasions in cells do not «trickle up» to include interest in higher - grade bodily occasions, even though the physical results of those aims may well affect the entire body.

But for Whitehead, nature's «problem» can be solved only if two mutually - dependent kinds of emergences are occurring: (a) more complex societies of occasions must emerge if there is to be (b) the emergence of higher - grade individual occasions which then are the final loci of actuality and value.

Also, in low - grade living societies this purposive adaptation occurs quite without any consciousness; all that is required is that an occasion be able to incorporate some alternative for itself beyond what is supplied by physical feelings of its past.

In addition to four grades of actual occasions, Whitehead also distinguishes four kinds of aggregations of occasions on Earth:

There are the vegetable - grade things, complex «democracies of cells» whose occasions seem to have no aims beyond survival.

He was composed of body and soul, that is, of nexus of low - grade occasions coordinated by an ordered series of high - grade occasions, which traced his personal identity through his own, life - history.

This was graded according to severity and the length of time it lasted at each of the assessments: never distressed; occasional (of any severity); persistent mild distress on three or more occasions; and persistent moderate distress on three or more occasions.

The modern version of your 8th grade «special occasion» look swaps teased roots and feathered bangs for a tight top pony with the hair left down styled in loose, voluminous waves.

I have to admit, I like Circle of Iron more than I give it credit for, and despite my giving it just a passing grade, it's one of those movies that I have enjoyed on multiple occasions.

Data were initially collected on a total of 1,184 children in the third grade (age 8 years) who were followed up on a further three occasions over the course of two years.»

I can almost guarantee that every incoming sixth - grade student and his or her family has been to our school on multiple occasions, creating a sense of familiarity to ease them into our campus when they arrive as students.

And there were occasions — in a history, government, or English class with the right teacher, or in the three periods of journalism I took in twelfth grade — when flashes of talent or interest would surface.

However, on this occasion we've had to make do with a base - spec turbo - diesel LandCruiser 200 that was delivered to our garage instead of the high - grade petrol V8 we requested.

It's like daydreaming, like that second just before you fall asleep, but for hours, they said, for the whole of eighth grade, their eyes glazed with the shine of the newly converted, and by tenth grade they gave up and now, start of junior year, it was habit to make fun of him every time there was occasion, every time they circled up to light and puff and smoke, these friends.

Currently that sort of thing is above my pay grade — although I studied spherical harmonics in the sixties I've never had occasion to use them before and have completely forgotten it all.

«We primarily focus on investment - grade, although on occasion we will dip below for companies that we feel are financially strong, but have not yet reached investment - grade,» according to Richard J. Rouse, co-CEO of New York - based Lexington Corporate Properties Trust, a publicly traded REIT that specializes in office and industrial net - lease properties.

The surfaces are finished with copious layers of high - grade beeswax to a lustre perfectly in step with entertaining for every occasion.