Sentences with phrase «internal supersession»

The process in God can not be conceived of as a process between occasions (which is a transition or «external supersession»), nor can it be conceived of as that type of process which occurs within an occasion as an «internal supersession» of phases of indeterminateness finishing in a final satisfaction («concrescence» in the usual sense of the word).

So, God's process does not fit in the usual model of change, nor in the usual model of becoming.25 Whitehead preferably considers the process in God in terms of growth, which, to be sure, may be viewed as a form of internal supersession, that is, as a succession in which the previous phases are retained without loss, however in this special case as a succession of satisfaction - phases.

In order to show this, Nobo (conceiving God as one actual entity) uses the model of internal supersession as a starting point.