Sentences with phrase «notion of an actuality»

Whitehead believes that Plato discovered those general ideas which are relevant to everything that happens: The Ideas, the Physical Elements, The Psyche, The Eros, The Harmony, The Mathematical Relations, The Receptacle.30 In adapting Plato's seven basic notions Whitehead takes «the notion of actuality as in its essence process «31 as his starting point.

Hence, in the general sense in which the notion of actuality is tied to the notion of self - realization, the superjective existence of an occasion is as actual as its subjective existence.

Also closely related to the notion of actuality, in fact correlative with it, is the notion of possibility.

From these feelings we get the notions of actuality, causality, the past, and hence of givenness.

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Further, by defining the God of all as an abstract, universal notion, Walker reduces the actuality of the oppressor to an abstract notion.

However this break is complete and systematic in Process and Reality and most explicit in Adventures of Ideas, Chapter X, where the notion of one actuality as truly present in another, and not merely represented in it, is asserted to be the one fundamental metaphysical advance since Plato (AI 214f.).

And, as we have seen, the notion of God arises in «the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss.

The central chapter on the Second Premise (K 65 - 140) contains: (i) a refutation of the attempted application of Cantor's transfinite mathematics to the domain of extramental reality, (ii) two philosophical arguments which attempt to show the conceptual absurdity of the notion of an infinite past of finite actualities, and (iii) two arguments from physics (concerning Big Bang and Thermodynamic theory, respectively) which attempt to show that probably the natural universe had an absolute beginning a finite time ago.

Although Joseph Bracken's notion of «collective agency» is an interesting recent attempt at a compromise between the orthodox interpretation and positions like that of Edward Pols and this paper, collective agency fails to give sufficient unity and actuality to persons.

SP as the state of being harboring the thoughts of existences to be transmuted from possibilities to actualities may be compared to the notion of God - for - us, the ishvara of Hinduism in Panikker, and the notion of cit in Upadhyaya.

All that is settled about them is settled by present actuality, but that «future» is a meaningful notion at all, that it has a certain reality for the present, is «bound up with the reality of the continuum.

That is, a proposition is a notion, a «theory» of things, a suggestion or supposition about actualities.

Indeed, if we attribute to God the «categorical ultimate» of relativity («surrelativism»), it distinguishes God from finite creatures just as decisively as the notion of absoluteness, for it expresses the conviction that God relates himself to the world and appropriates the contingent actualities of the world into his own being with such complete adequacy that the significance of all things is fully appreciated and preserved.13

Whitehead protests that while one may choose to use such a notion as a helpful abstraction, one can treat such absolute time as an actuality equal to all other actualities only at the expense of coherence.

Fulfillment entails a notion vital to the development of an ethics of character and virtue from a process perspective, that all creatures, all actuality, drive towards the experience of beauty, richness of experience.

Indeed when we come to discuss the reformed subjectivist principle connected with Whitehead's proposed solution to the problem of modem philosophy, we shall see that it stands in direct contradiction to both Cartesian dualism and the notion of «vacuous actuality.»

I simply do not see that the problem so cast takes into account the problems relating either to dualism or to the notion of «vacuous actuality.»

This statement, together with Whitehead's discussion of the relation of the reformed subjectivist principle to the principles of relativity and of process (PR 252) also makes clear Whitehead's repudiation of dualism and of the notion of «vacuous actuality.»

Cartesian dualism and the notion of «vacuous actuality» are also among the several other doctrines or notions included by Whitehead under this heading.

Like Schleiermacher, process theology depends heavily upon the notion of an evolutionary world of interdependent actualities.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).

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.

That actuality means «unification» is understandable (and, in that sense, is explained) by the way the ultimate descriptive notion of creativity has to be conceived.

He defines «vacuous actuality,» «which haunts realistic philosophy,» as «the notion of res vera devoid of subjective immediacy.»

As to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they are.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

The notion of an actual formative element follows from his earlier claim: I believe there is continuity between his earlier assertion, «God is not concrete, but He is the ground for concrete actuality» (Science 178), and the formative element.

Here the Platonic notion of the receptacle also is relevant for conceiving creativity: 15 creativity is the a priori receptacle, the a priori metaphysical locus of all actuality.

The view that actuality is activity rather than primal act of being leads Leclerc to his final disagreement with the scholastic, and hence Suarecian theory: his notion that form is distinct from actuality.

It may also seem to contradict the notion of ideality, which makes a virtue out of departure from actuality.

The attempted notion of an infinitely dense continuum of actualities is meaningless.

For instance, after I had presented a long and careful account of the notion that the basic actualities that make up the world are sentient creatures, a very intelligent and scholarly neuroscientist said to me, «I still can't imagine what it would be like for an atom to have feelings, and I still can't see any good reason to believe this in the first place.»

This notion about basic actualities and reasons for belief in them arise from a different way of seeing the world in the first place.

Memphis styles became firmly rooted in Bas» pre-teenage subconsciousness, attesting to the prevalence of the «Memphis look» on the big and small screen in films like Tim Burton's Beetlejuice or kids» TV show Pee - wee's Playhouse, and through it he explores the idea of the artificial versus the real, the notion of the false being more authentic than actuality (concepts which Bas links to another early influence, Huysmans» Against Nature).

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