Sentences with phrase «microcosmic event»

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.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Disclosures can occur which do not arise around personal or moral behavior but around cosmic events or microcosmic phenomena.

7 To see this unambiguously one must look over the whole range of events from microcosmic to macrocosmic, and one must choose the same type of event at every level.

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.