Sentences with phrase «metaphysical generality»

Clarke recognizes the difference between metaphysical generality and the particularity of the historic scheme of Christian salvation then justifies generality as part of a universal religion.

The denial by physical science of «action at a distance» is a comment about the present cosmic epoch and carries with it no metaphysical generality.

Those criteria are also held to have metaphysical generality, that is, they are valid not only for human beings, but for any possible state of reality.

Hartshorne's assumption that the microcosm of any particular human experience, at the utmost level of metaphysical generality, resembles the macrocosmic universe even though the latter is an almost infinitely vast conglomeration of other experiences.

When he discusses «the hierarchy of societies composing our present epoch,» he says he is «deserting metaphysical generality» and only «considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it» (PR 147).

But Whitehead saw «no reason, of any ultimate metaphysical generality, why this should be the whole story.»

Is there an ultimate metaphysical generality that makes this so?

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 96) His comments are conjectural because he has left metaphysical generality and is»... considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it.»

He himself explains in an earlier chapter of the same book that «strict metaphysical generality can stop short of literally «everything»,» because «it is enough if a concept applies with complete and a priori Universality within one logical level» (89).

The principle involved may be extended still further to the level of metaphysical generality.

But, continues Whitehead, «there is no reason, of any ultimate metaphysical generality, why this should be the whole story.

Provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 468 - 469).

The metaphysical generality of the thesis is a great advantage, however.

provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality.

It is to be carefully noted that we are now deserting metaphysical generality.

But there is no reason, of any ultimate metaphysical generality, why this should be the whole story» (PR 517).

With this general understanding of God's participation in becoming, it should be possible to make some statements of less than metaphysical generality which have to do with God's aims for particular sorts of occasions.

The final appeal in this endeavor, he contends, is to «the self - evidence of experience» (MT 158), although it should be emphasized that our experience of metaphysical generalities is neither immediately obvious to consciousness nor readily expressible.

(4) Combinatorial richness: Whitehead evidences a similar concern when he speaks of the expansive potential of metaphysical generalities throughout the entire scope of both the philosophical model and reality.

Not exact matches

Since then, this conception of metaphysics has given way to one of metaphysics as the study of most basic or general presuppositions, and of the metaphysical argument as hypothetical in the manner of a scientific theory, but on a level of higher generality.

The central preoccupation of the philosopher should therefore be the discovery and accurate description of those ultimate generalities which explain all actual entities Whereas the special sciences seek to uncover the explanatory principles which govern one particular genus of entities, metaphysical inquiry seeks to uncover truly universal principles which apply to all actual entities insofar as they are actual entities.

He is a metaphysical order that is exemplified in all orders of less generality than its own.

The following discussion of power is not meant to be primarily metaphysical in generality.

Again, this would make empirical theology merely a variation on foundational or metaphysical forms of theology, whereas empirical theology begins with despair about foundationalism and its concern with generalities.

There are only two metaphysical principles in virtue of which the existence of an actual entity can be inferred; to wit, the principle of efficient causation, and the ontological principle, in virtue of which any generality of character shared among entities presupposes a character of generality.

Whitehead's philosophy aims to approach the accurate expression of final generalities; his metaphysical categories are conceived as tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.

His objection appears to be that the generality of metaphysical description in process thought imposes limits upon God's action that are not necessary.

Whitehead summarizes this point well: «Metaphysical categories are not dogmatic statements of the obvious; they are tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.