Sentences with phrase «occasions by inheritance»

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Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

The human mind, in Whitehead's view, is an example of the latter: «There is also an enduring object formed by the inheritance from presiding occasion to presiding occasion» (PR 167).

Our interpretation of the statement that «Life is a passage from physical order to pure mental originality» (PR 164) is that the initiatives within the dominant nexus of occasions are canalized in the supportive nexus by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal mentality may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.

There is a succession of occasions that are largely informed by their inheritance from the personal past.

Assuming that I make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required by a single experience (and this because my experience includes both the clear, conscious experience of the regnant society and the dim experience of other members of the nonsocial nexus); or, my experience is that of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the other occasions of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes acceptance of a doctrine of regional inclusion.

Here we are dealing with actual entities that synthesize a vast range of materials in their concrescences, that entertain data that have gone through the transforming synthesis brought about by transmutations introduced along the routes of inheritance flowing through the complex bodily systems which support these sophisticated regnant occasions.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

First, the inheritance along the route of presiding or dominant occasions is more intelligible if there is continuity in the regions occupied by these occasions.

Indeed, it outranks the possibilities received through all the other routes of inheritance in at least two respects: (1) the particular region to be inhabited by a newly concrescing occasion in a living person and the sort of satisfaction at which it is aimed initially are granted exclusively through the route of inheritance from God (CNT 153f.

Accordingly, the fact that «our dominant inheritance from our immediately past occasion is broken into by innumerable inheritances through other avenues» provides an analogy for understanding both the endurance of a molecule and the fact that it is subject to countless other influences (AI 243).

Whitehead states that «in an animal body the presiding occasion if there be one, is the final node, or intersection, of a complex structure of many enduring objects» (PR 166f) and that an enduring object is «formed by the inheritance from presiding occasion to presiding occasion» (PR 167).

The originality of the occasions of the supportive nexus is «canalized... by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal identity may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.»

Genetic identity, which has only a relatively definite meaning, involves (1) some «defining characteristic» reappearing in each member of a sequence or family of occasions; (2) direct inheritance by appreciably positive prehensions of this character from previous members.

By custom, or routine, Whitehead means the inheritance immanent in the occasions constituting that society.

To the contrary, my cultural inheritance was learning to «treat yourself» at «special occasions» by gorging on every horribly delicious food you could imagine.