Hartshorne's identification
of actuality with definiteness means that actuality is the limit — the zero case — of indefiniteness.
These possibilities are capable of abstraction from any particular instance
of actuality with its emotional freight and can be felt in a variety of ways, depending upon the freedom of the individual.
Yet the idea must be rejected as radically inconsistent with the heart of Whitehead's metaphysical insight, the identification
of actuality with «something that matters» (MT 161; cf. 149f, 159).
«What is inexorable in God, is valuation as an aim towards order»; and «order» means «society» permissive
of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts.
Not only the spontaneous self - creativity of the individual but the social order which makes possible that particular exercise of spontaneity is essential for intense value - experience Indeed Whitehead says that» «order» means «society» permissive
of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts» (PR 244 / 373f.).
The main point to be stressed here is that the fact that the world is composed
of actualities with this two-fold power is not a contingent feature of our particular world.
Not exact matches
Combine that
with the history and legacy
of our pro-am teams... and that means everyone is a stakeholder — not just in name, but in
actuality.
In
actuality, entrepreneurs all over the world usually experience many
of the same issues and are in fact eager to share those experiences
with others.
Andrea Simon offers six ideas for turning innovation into an
actuality, including, «Get out
of your office, often, and go explore how people are using your products»: «P&G requires their brand managers to get out
of their offices and spend time
with customers who are actually using their products.
In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out
of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount
of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch
of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead
of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that
with notepad you can open it
with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch
of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all
of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total
of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total
of 1,915 keywords now what I've done
with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots
of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch
of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton
of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in
actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total
of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots
of new keyword ideas what do you do
with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds
of thousands
of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do
with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top
of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
I was confusing
actuality with plausibility, the objective
of philosophy
with the objective
of fiction.
The liberal response
of tenderness, then, which makes the Louisiana child and the Iowa child hardly distinguishable in their manifestations in time and place, begins
with a denial
of personhood in its fundamental
actuality.
The two moments: first, Binx's seeing the black man leaving the church after Ash Wednesday ritual,
with an acceptance
of the necessity, as Binx would have it,
of «inserting himself into the world»; second, Binx's own ceremony
of moviegoing whereby he seems to come to terms
with place but in
actuality does not.
Eliot responded directly to Moore's criticism in After Strange Gods: «I should say that in one's prose reflexions one may be legitimately occupied
with ideals, whereas in the writing
of verse one can only deal
with actuality.»
(This view is abbreviated DP3) J. L. Mackie has described a crucial aspect
of this position: «If men's wills are really free, this must mean that even God can not control them... «5 If one takes seriously that idea
of a universe composed
of actual things in real relations
with other
actualities, then the idea that all power is concentrated in one
actuality is nonsensical.
The surface activity
of the state appears to be progressively attenuated to make way for the next
actuality, while the past or depth
of the state is renewed
with greater conformance.
Whitehead wrote, «there is no essential reason why memory should not be raised to the vividness
of the present fact» (CN), but to revive the actual present
of a past state, i.e., not a memory
of the past but a preceding
actuality, would be to hallucinate
with an object - like clarity.
The contrast between real possibilities and
actuality in the final decision
of the event is the source
of its historical significance, in terms
of its relations
with its antecedents and
with its relevant future.
But if there has always been a realm
of finite
actualities, and if the existence
of such a realm (though not
with any particular order) is as eternal and necessary as is the existence
of God, then it also makes sense to think
of eternally necessary principles descriptive
of their possible relationships... [T] his correlation between freedom and intrinsic value is a necessary one, rather than a result
of divine arbitrariness (PTE 711).
This rejection
of uncreated and hence necessary principles fits
with the doctrine that the existence
of finite
actualities is strictly contingent, and that they were created out
of absolute nothingness.
Actuality it was
with the intention
of your comfort that I made it, as explained, you did seem to be getting a little upset above.
This world will include a range
of events which, like the example
of the Reform Bill passage, implicate hierarchies
of abstraction,
with their appropriate contrasts between
actuality and potentiality.
But there is another set
of images or «clues» that we must deal
with if we are to attend not just seriously but honestly to the concrete
actualities of our embodied existence.
The main point is to underscore the contrast
of the implications
of his philosophy
with the traditional doctrines that have insisted only on the permanence, unity, eminent
actuality, transcendence, and creative power
of God.
Thirdly, the chaosmos need not «include a stable
actuality whose mutual implication
with the remainder
of the things secures an inevitable trend towards order» (AI 115); rather the «system, is neither stable nor unstable, but «metastable,» endowed
with a potential energy [the so - called divine «energy
of disjunctions»] wherein the differences between series are distributed» (LS 103).
In this phase, full
actuality is attained; but there is deficiency in the solidarity
of individuals
with each other.
Whitehead writes: «The world is thus faced by the paradox that, at least in its higher
actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss
of the past,
with its familiarities and its loved ones» (PR 516).
and value he identifies
with the occurrence
of actuality for itself as opposed to its effects on others.
He even denies that religious experience provides adequate warrant for affirming the
actuality of God, since «the Eastern Asiatic concept
of an impersonal order to which the world conforms» is given equal status
with other doctrines.
Thus, the one primordial ordering
of eternal objects is relevant to every
actuality with perfect specificity.
But
with this the Aristotelian equivalence
of form
with actuality and
of matter
with potentiality now seems to fail altogether, yes even to shift into its opposite.
«5 Whitehead shows how this concept
of a thing, a concept that grew out
of practical dealing
with the
actualities of the world, entrenched itself in the subject - predicate structure
of language and from there made its way into Aristotle's theory
of the Categories.
First
of all, it is as true for Aristotle as it is for Whitehead that in dealing
with natural
actuality we always encounter both principles or «poles,» which together constitute one natural entity, whose duality or bipolarity is part
of its essence.
This traditional form
of faith is the product
of a divided consciousness: it can only know redemption as a reconciliation
with an Other lying beyond itself, and must experience the
actuality of the present as a world merely awaiting its transfiguration.
The potentialities given
with the «eternal objects» are more varied and richer than what is actualized in the
actualities of the world.
51 In his discussion
of how both God and world operate upon a becoming occasion, God always is working
with the «given,» that is, the
actuality of past decisions for good or for ill and all qualities inbetween.
If for Aristotle the fundamental thesis
of the absolute priority
of actuality over potentiality holds
with respect to time, it thereby holds also
with respect to entity (1050 b 4).
These questions are concerned
with the possibility
of reconciling God's presence in experience
with God's transcendence;
with preserving both the uniqueness
of God's
actuality and the uniqueness
of man's freedom.
Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many
actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord
with the divine call than those
of more complex creatures; the greater the degree
of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.
As a result, you get people who automatically assume that evolution conflicts
with the Book
of Genesis when in
actuality, Genesis was written allegorically.
The religious insight is the grasp
of truth: that the order
of the world, the value
of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty
of the world, the zest
of life, and the mastery
of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason
of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity
with infinite freedom, and a realm
of forms
with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve
actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61
There seems to be no moment
of transition in which the freedom
of self - constitution is united
with the determinateness
of full
actuality.
This is not fall as a primordial and distant event, but as a continual and present process, a process that has become identical
with the very
actuality of existence itself.
In other words, God knows all
actualities by experiencing them eminently, and preserving them everlastingly
with no loss
of immediacy.
The details
of the future are chosen by
actualities as they prehend the past and are lured into the future through the possibilities
with which God beckons.
Since I am not concerned here
with issues
of adequacy or tenability, but only
with showing that Whitehead did indeed hold that completed
actualities are repeatable, I have no reason to discuss Rorty's views at this time.
But if we hold, as for example in Process and Reality, that all final individual
actualities have the metaphysical character
of occasions
of experience, then on that hypothesis the direct evidence as to the connectedness
of one's immediately present occasion
of experience
with one's immediately past occasions, can be validly used to suggest categories applying to the connectedness
of all occasions in nature.
What I do know is that while I wholeheartedly believe my Christian faith to be true, in
actuality I have never seen God, verbally spoken to Him, physically touched Him or had any other means
of communication
with Him whereby we as human beings validate reality.
Holding the two aspects
of God, relative and absolute, together involves a major contradiction, even
with Hartshorne's reworking
of the ideas
of actuality and immutability.
that is, «The world is thus [italics mine] faced by the paradox that, at least in its highest
actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss
of the past,
with its familiarities and its loved ones,» refers, because
of the use
of the word thus, to a previous argument that provides the grounds on which Whitehead bases his assertion that the world requires both novelty and order.