Sentences with phrase «past efficient causes»

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Credit is growing more slowly than it has in the past but not because the financial system has become more efficient but simply because debt levels have become too high, causing regulators to force down the growth in credit without seriously improving the efficiency of the financial sector.

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

However, since they condition it through their immanence in it, this second sense of efficient causation presupposes the first — namely, that the past occasions are efficient causes of the new occasion because, as data, they are included in, and hence are constituents of, it.

The past operates on the present with the force of necessity as efficient cause.

If all (efficient) causes are past, as past they are also objective.

Second, the reproduction of the past in the present through efficient cause is an important element in the regularities described in laws which are so important for science, technology, methodology, scholarship, and speculation (AI 139).

Even this coercive, persuasion does not cut off the expression of past responsible freedom carried by determined efficient cause.

In other words, the past actual entities, precisely» as included in the new actual entity; are the efficient causes of the initial set of characteristics of the new entity.

Human introspection is hardly capable of identifying all the efficient causes of a past feeling, let alone weighing the power of each relative to each other and to that feeling's final causality; God in turn would seem to have no impartial information or standards by which to conduct such comparative weighings with perfect precision.

This is Whitehead's explanation of the capacity of past actual entities to continue to «function» as efficient causes (that is, as causing the appearance of certain characteristics in the transcendent future).

Therefore, this potentiality for integration into future actual entities — that is, this capacity to be an efficient cause — while essential to those future actual entities, does not affect that past actuality itself.

If the many past actual entities are dominated, for example, by anger, then those past entities become the efficient causes of the appearance of anger in the new actual entity.

It is this stubborn factuality that makes it possible for these past entities to be included in the future actual entities and, thereby, for these past actual entities to function as efficient causes of certain aspects of those future actual entities.

Although we differ on at least one point in the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy (he holds the system to require that God acts efficiently by mediating to present events finite efficient causes derived from the past), I do not see how his God acts coercively in any of the senses outlined in the previous chapter.

Modern physical and biological sciences have replaced the former reliance on divine or teleological explanations of natural phenomena by its current emphasis on efficient or proximal causes which depend entirely on a deterministic chain of past events.

11 In what appears to be a later insertion, Whitehead reflects on this contrast: «Concrescence moves towards its final cause, which is its subjective aim; transition is the vehicle of efficient cause, which is the immortal past» (PR 210/321).

Instead of an active transition, as in the Giffords draft, past occasions, which have perished in terms of their immediacy to be mere objectifications, are here identified as the efficient causes.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).