Sentences with phrase «occurrence of actuality»

and value he identifies with the occurrence of actuality for itself as opposed to its effects on others.

The passage seems to say that the ultimate metaphysical reality that underlies and expresses itself in every concrete occurrence of actuality or value «envisages» possibilities both in pure abstraction and in their relevance for actual entities, as well as «envisaging» the actual entities themselves.

Thus on this account, though the realm of possibilities is eternal, the delineation of possibilities (universals) depends on the occurrence of actualities.

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The reality of it is this: that we incline to define ourselves, take the measure of our actuality, admit as educative and civilizing, acknowledge as relevant and powerful — only that in experience or reflection which is authenticated by its occurrence within the biographical brackets of the self's existence.

The nineteenth century saw the reality of the «historical facts» as consisting largely in names, places, dates, occurrences, sequences, causes, effects — things which fall far short of being the actuality of history, if one understands by history the distinctively human, creative, unique, purposeful, which distinguishes man from nature.

We have already seen how the occurrence of contingent actualities makes possible the delineation of various possibilities.