Sentences with phrase «levels of actuality»

In the latter, a higher - level of actuality has emerged, thereby giving the society as a whole a unity of experience and activity Kim's position, however, does not allow for such a distinction: «Atoms and their mereological aggregates exhaust all of concrete existence....

It is also on the basis of this distinction, along with the notion that there are various levels of actualities, that Whitehead explains our common belief not only that some macroscopic beings have freedom, but also that some have more freedom than others.

Not exact matches

The false sense of security conveyed invites and encourages unwise and speculative levels of leverage that in actuality conflate downside risk when these schemes must be unwound.

The extremely rich (experiential) data provided by the human brain, accordingly, can be thought to allow the emergence of a higher - level actuality, which we call the mind.

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.

This is because there is no one series of higher - level actualities («dominant occasions») within the society which can coordinate the activities of the myriad members.

To say that all concrete actualities are causa sill in the sense of Spinoza's Substance, would be, first of all, a mixing up of the ontic and the ontological level, but besides that it also violates one of the most fundamental presuppositions of reason, i.e, that nothing just happens, out of nothing.

From my point of view, at the level of creativity - esse, if God transcends the distinction between actuality and potentiality, then God must also transcend the distinction between finitude and infinitude.

«All or none» principles operate on many levels and give rise to effective actualities of many sorts.

But, though there are gradations of importance, and diversities of function, yet in the principles which actuality exemplifies all are on the same level.

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

Though we can not now resolve the differences among religions at this level, religions may prove able to reciprocally recognize the actuality of multiple religious ends.

I was one of those FTMs who experienced pain upon latching at a level 6 - 7 (and I've experienced 5 kidney stones so I have experience gauging pain) and was told it was simply «soreness» when in actuality it was tissue damage.

But, in actuality, there is not a bitter metallic taste for manganese at that level, Sain and Dietrich revealed in a peer - reviewed journal paper, «Assessing taste and visual perception of Mn (II) and Mn (IV).»

In actuality, saturated fat has been demonstrated to exert beneficial effects on levels of triglycerides and high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL),

In actuality, research so clearly and so consecutively it rises on the level of the law: Never with whom to talk, indicating by finger or the transformations by palm downward.

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

In actuality, despite the label, the goal of the policy is to create multiple avenues to ensure that children do read on grade level by the fourth grade, the time in education when students transition from learning - to - read to reading - to - learn.

In actuality, the median constituent of the S&P 500 has a Forward P / E of 18.4 — a multiple that rests in the 99th percentile of historical valuation levels.

In actuality, all levels of anxiety can benefit from medication.

When the player runs out of lives or finishes the game they have the option to save their game, which in actuality only saves the weapon level.

So, in actuality, for current conditions and a quite plausible worst - case hurricane situation, one could have much more inundation of NY right now than the movie was showing for what could happen over this century or longer as a result of sea level rise.

If one assumes that the modern decadal warming in reality was simply a cyclical repeat of the early 20th century decades of natural warming, then in actuality, at best, the gigantic increases of CO2 levels were only responsible for maybe a mere +0.14 °C increase (+0.55 °C - +0.41 °C = +0.14 °C) over the 3 decades ending in 2009.