Sentences with phrase «particular occasions of»

The various particular occasions of the past are in existence, and are severally functioning as objects for prehension....

Granted, therefore, that God's infinite conceptual valuation of pure possibility may justly be termed «free» since it is «limited by no actuality which it presupposes (PR 524), yet the temporal integrative activity of his consequent nature, whereby he loves particular occasions of the actual world, may also be called «free,» though in a somewhat different sense.

Sometimes a particular occasion of suffering clearly produces a very desirable result.

Furthermore, having experienced enough pain to be able to know what pain is in general does not ensure the capability to know the precise nature and extent of a particular occasion of pain.

The hybrid physical feeling of God, which is (on the traditional Whiteheadian account) the subjective aim for any particular occasion of the young woman s experience, is also a prehension of the past from which she inherits — it is, after all, a physical feeling.

Themes evident in this selection of art include the way a particular occasion of event is commemorated; the manner in which personal histories of mythologies are created; and the tensions among strong visual components such as color, shape, and pattern when compressed in a flat space.

Not exact matches

On this particular occasion, the D - Wave Two would have to pass five somewhat more mundane tests, pitting it against a variety of conventional processors.

When some questions were raised about aspects of a particular North African contract on another occasion, nothing was done.

Over just the past few weeks we have seen two separate occasions in particular in which the President of the United States has directed negative tweets at specific industries or companies.

[embedded content] Speculators usually make use of mathematical and algorithmic extractions of earlier occasions inside their particular markets of curiosity

I have on occasion asked the congregation to join me in giving to a particular need: Tsunami in Indo., Katrina refuges, an orphange in Russian [not a Christian orphange either] those kinds of things.

«Capital punishment on this particular occasion was inappropriate and any expressions of sympathy or compassion are extended in my capacity as a private individual and not in any professional or public capacity.»

I'm no particular friend of Piper or of Margaret Thatcher, but on the occasion of her funeral Diane Francis wrote a piece on feminism which makes interesting points.

A field, therefore, composed simply of inanimate actual occasions is not a subject of experience; but, in and through the interrelated agencies of its constituent occasions, it does exercise the collective agency necessary to preserve its own identity as this particular field, e.g., an atom or molecule of a peculiar shape or consistency.

Afterwards, I will review the broader significance of this new understanding of actual occasions and societies for the mind - body problem, paying particular attention to articles published over the years by Whiteheadians on this very topic.

In the Whiteheadian interpretation of reality, these initial aims proposed by God are not capricious nor due to inscrutable divine purposes for his creatures, but are relevant aims toward maximizing the intensity of experience which is possible from the particular perspective of each concrescing occasion.

As with the apple - tart, then, God's love for this particular occasion is really his love for this sort of occasion inasmuch as the occasion instantiates one of the abstract patterns valuated in the primordial nature.

In any case, in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of control.

Any subsequent occasion would therefore assimilate it in a great variety of intermediate forms, and would have to recombine them to establish its own particular feeling for that contrast.

Ratzinger had seen the Shroud of Turin more than once before this occasion, but he named this particular experience of prayer before it, in May 2010, an especially moving one.

The initial aim is for the richest unification of the world possible from the particular perspective of that emerging occasion.

which is his «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 532); the» «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (PR 135).

This adventure embraces all particular occasions but as an actual fact stands beyond any one of them... [It] includes among its components all individual realities, each with the importance of the personal or social fact to which it belongs.

This intensity of feeling lies precisely in the act itself whereby God loves particular actual occasions.

With this general understanding of God's participation in becoming, it should be possible to make some statements of less than metaphysical generality which have to do with God's aims for particular sorts of occasions.

A concern for compassion and justice for the victims, however, does not excuse a lack of faithfulness to the truth, and frequently the occasion of sexual abuse by Catholics has itself been abused in the service of dishonest propaganda against the Catholic Church, and our Priests in particular.

Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on more than one occasion students who wrestled with the particular brand of Christianity in which they had been raised.

The KJV translates this, «And the common people heard him gladly,» converting a reference to a particular occasion into a general assertion about the attitude of the common people toward Jesus.

The «movement» of the dominant occasion is its fixing of attention upon particular threads of occasions which are enjoying some satisfactions successively.

It is rather a matrix for those orderings effected by particular actual occasions m the course of nature.

At the same time, the figure - ground quality of conscious attention is explained as a focal enjoyment of data inherited from occasions of particular intensity together with a lesser inheritance from adjacent occasions of slighter but analogous satisfactions.

This means that whereas a proposition must properly conform to the nexus to which it refers independently of the experience of any particular occasion, and is a logical type, a judgment is concerned with the conformity of components within one particular occasion, and is an emotional type.

Like the Leibnizian monad, the occasion is individuated by its individual essence, its particular perspective; but unlike the Leibnizian monad this essence is not predicated of the occasion as a substantial substratum, but enters into the inner constitution of the occasion as «a vector transmission of emotional feeling» or, in the language of physics, «the transmission of a form of energy» from past occasions via the eternal objects that communicate the emotional form and make possible the subsequent reenactment by the prehending occasion (PR 315 / 479f.).

Various promissory notes are given (PR 32 / 47), such as the sole explicit discussion of «the «superjective» nature of God» (PR 88 / 135; but see PS 3:228 f), and the famous «fourth phase» of the last two pages of Process and Reality, which proposes a «particular providence for particular occasions.»

Once launched in a particular direction, participant observers seek occasions that present an object of inquiry and try to uncover the object's function and meaning.

This is pointed out on another occasion when Bonhoeffer says that to confuse Christ with a particular stage in the «religiousness» of man would be to confuse him with a human law.33 It is to be carefully noted that the introduction of the concepts of law does not imply the identification of religion and law.

What is really possible for a given actual world, however, is that range of forms capable of unifying that particular multiplicity of past actual occasions.

If in the occasion we say that past and future are reconciled, we have in mind the particular past and future of that occasion.

For instance, the notion of the ideal aim entails that God «limits» the possibilities which are relevant to a particular occasion.

The tragedy and triumph of Good Friday and Easter would become the occasion to invite everyone to some particular facet of transition to life in the Spirit.

If what you say is true, then why is it that I see billboards, roadside signs, TV, print and onlineadvertisements EVERY day in which religious groups try to force their particular brand of religion on everyone, yet on the rare occasion that an atheist does the same, it makes national news.

Every new settlement of that community, every new disjunctive multiplicity of attained actualities, gives rise, through the transcendent process of transition, to a new occasion in which that particular settlement is reproduced and in which the settlement as reproduced is then synthesized into a final unity of experience by the immanent process of concrescence.

In what sense are the past occasions efficient causes of the new, particular occasion?

Thus, in virtue of its unique position, even an incomplete occasion is specifiable as a distinct and unique particular.

It is important to realize, however, that this pragmatic justification of CE underwrites only its general reliability at best and by no means guarantees its universal infallibility Even if generally reliable because of its survival value, it is quite possible that on a particular occasion an experience of CE via «withness of the body» might be misleading, illusive, or even delusive.14

It becomes a realized determinant of the particular occasion by being reproduced within the occasion.

Particular emotions, such as joy or sorrow, or particular purposes, such as appetition toward growth, decay, or fatigue, are relative to the individuality of each unrepeatable occasion and to the specific qualitative elements objectified in its prehended data.

The teaching of Jesus is epitomized in the Sermon on the Mount, although it is found throughout the Gospels in his parables and in sayings upon particular occasions which, in their main outlines, have been preserved for us.

We hold that those occasions responding to basic pulses or to the lure of a particular past particle form the elementary particles, which in turn form the atoms, which in turn form the molecules, which in turn form the more complex molecules of primitive organisms, which in turn form the one - celled organisms, which in turn form the multi-celled organisms, which, finally, in turn form the more complex organisms, persons.

But in Process and Reality, Whitehead recognizes two fundamentally different types of actual occasions, those constituting space - time empty of matter, and those constituting experient occasions in the histories of particular particles, corresponding to basic pulses or beats in the theories of quantum physics (PR 177/269).