Sentences with word «ontic»

Thus it is possible that a single neuron might be interdependent in the mode of ontic power with a macroscopic feature of action (e.g., conscious understanding) simultaneous with it and also make a contribution by way of its causal power to a later neural occurrence in some other part of the brain.

An example of ontic power would be the asymmetrical interdependence of the macroscopic features of the act of speaking, including all the dynamic movement of subjectivity towards understanding that goes with the words, with a whole complex of neuronal activity.

For that reason, I borrowed, though with a difference of interpretation that made it clear that I was not borrowing the well - known tenets of Platonism along with it, the Platonic phrase «real (Or true) cause» to refer to the agent in his exercise of supervening ontic power.

This allowed me to call the neuron's contribution to the act conditioning ontic power.

God's transcendence is not a matter of distance between heaven and earth but is one of ontic difference.

What I here call power, sense 2, I there called ontic power.

For the purposes of this investigation of original sin, the singularly important facet of this reality is that the old views of the solidarity of the race have a basis in ontic fact.

Indeed, there is always ontic change: the possibilities of the PN are always becoming actualized in God's CN.

A young science writer undertakes a quest to discover the underpinnings of what's real in the universe through encounters with London rats and ontic structural realists

Depending on who you ask, fidelity has been correlated with formal abstraction's ability to reveal raw feelings, the eye's capability to expose ontic faithfulness, or sometimes the artworks function in the social or political spheres.

If a frequency of sites spatially and of data collection over time can produce enough dynamically significant data points to satisfy the requirements of Chaos (eg, antialiasing, bifurcation), then we can know just how badly we are measuring the climate, and whether some currently ontic variability is really aleatory, or may be semi-deterministic in some spans and scales if only we have enough granularity in our sampling.

If this should be so, then supervening ontic power deserves to be dealt with under some causal rubric of its own.

Where the agent's power over one of his neurons was under discussion, I made the latter notion more specific and spoke of supervening ontic power.

It should also be obvious that the concept of ontic power is intended to help renew the old close association between the category of being and that of causality.

We are left with the ontic question of whether or not brahman is «realized» The Indian mystical experience certainly occurs.

The concrete and reflexive circle invoked here by the author is the circle of Being, as the term «ontic power» concedes.

The concrete and reflexive circle I invoke here is the circle of Being, as the term «ontic power» concedes.

The term «innate» comes to mind as an apt expression (after due qualification) of the fact that reason, sharing the general structure of action, exercises a supervening ontic power that can not be resolved into the conditioning ontic powers that mediate its relation with the world.

I tried to make this clear both in the reference to being in the expression «ontic power» and by using the expression «fundamental entity» in the latter part of the book to refer to human beings and other kinds of entities as well.

This obvious principle of discontinuity, or discreteness, is balanced by the fact that all such elements are caught in the one ontic power of the superordinate entity and, where action is at issue, in the act - temporal power of one of his acts.

Indeed, if we return to my earliest example for a moment, if I am making any sense on the topic of action, then the causal power I exercised in vibrating your ear drums was a function of the ontic power deployed in my act.

Nor do we give an adequate account of supervening ontic power by listing the various conditioning ontic powers that contribute to it.

But obviously the theme of ontic power is not so radically separated from that of causal power as the distinction might suggest.

It will be obvious that I have tried to absorb and transform in the concept of real cause / ontic power aspects of causality that have long since disappeared from the concept of C E causality.4 that does service in modern philosophy of science.

The concept of real cause, then, is simply another way of expressing the concept of supervening ontic power.

It can take the form of hierarchy similar to that which exists in an individual person, where there is a unique governing center coordinating the relationality of all its parts, or it can build upon its ontic base of intersubjectivity and act through consensual modes.

It is an ontic category; «all other forms of power emerge from the reality of erotic power.»

4 In my judgment, it is as possible to argue from the meaning of theism (the ontic pole) to its truth for human existence (the noetic pole) as it is to argue from the meaning of human existence to the truth of theism.

Oneness, in this tradition, is therefore not an ontic, static givenness but a dynamic mutuality that is glimpsed and struggled towards in the honest encounter of Creator with creature, and creature with creature.