Sentences with phrase «microcosmic entities»

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John Cobb, Jr. and Charles Hartshorne, for instance, hold that the only actual entities are microcosmic actual occasions.

An actual occasion is microcosmic; the durational entities of everyday experience and of history are composed of such microevents.

So what is first required is a distinction, right on the level of the «life world,» between genuine entities and «things,» rather than a reversion to microcosmic event - units.

In his perspective it is necessary to leave the plane of experience and go back to the ultimate microcosmic event - units, since it is only in the microcosm that the desired concept of an «actual entity» as an organic unity of process can find a place.

The rigid adherence to microcosmic ultimate event - units as the sole actual entities seems to us to be not only inadequate with respect to the [254] higher forms of unity, but also to introduce an inconsistency in Whitehead's thinking.

Hanging on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the higher totalities could only be conceived as «societies» of such «entities.»

On Whitehead's view, the human body is a macrocosmic nexus of microcosmic actual identities, but — and this is the crucial point over against the mechanist view — these actual entities are interdependent rather than independent.

As the Wiener quotations suggests, this process of communication has relevance at both the macrocosmic level («societies») and the microcosmic level («actual entities»).