Sentences with phrase «possibilities as a continuum»

But each moment of divine conceptuality can only entertain possibility as a continuum (which is always generic) and can only create one determinate result, a result that includes all the generic aspects of all previously specified determinations by including the determinations themselves, the «abstract is in the concrete, [so] any concrete contains the entire unlimited form» (Divine 144).

I think Creel is correct in claiming that on Hartshorne's view God learns about possibilities as time goes on; indeed, earlier portions of this paper imply that this is a consequence of any view which understands possibilities as a continuum.

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But... the infinite regress in question is an example of the «non-vicious» type of regress, since it concerns possibilities, and these not (on one view of potentiality) as a definite multitude, whose number is infinite, but as a continuum, which in the words of Peirce is «beyond all multitude,» as God was formerly described as being; and indeed, as we shall see, the continuum of possibilities is one aspect of God which may be truly so described.

We can say that, as primordial, God is the continuum of all possibilities, the treasure - house of potentiality to be applied to the creation; that, as consequent (or as affected by that creation), God is the recipient of all value of good achieved in the creative advance; and that, as superjective, God «pours back into the world» (as Whitehead once put it) that which has thus been received from it but is now harmonized within the divine life that is «the Harmony of harmonies.»

But if (as I shall be assuming throughout this paper) possibilities do constitute a continuum, what sort of knowledge does God have of them, and how does that knowledge relate to actualities and to God's purposes for the universe?

It seems to me, however, that Creel has not succeeded in defining a sense in which possibilities are understood as constituting a continuum and yet can be eternally known in a way which would permit God to use his knowledge of them to decide his action in response to any possible situation.

Therefore, if possibilities do form a dense continuum, there is no reason to think that God as Hartshorne conceives of him is less than maximally perfect.

Is there a sense in which possibilities are understood as constituting a continuum and yet can be eternally known in a way which would permit God to use his knowledge of them to decide his action in response to any possible situation?

From large - scale sculpture to live - radio broadcasts and interactive sound installations, Conley's work presents unlikely circumstances as logical possibilities for locating human experience within a continuum bounded by technology and nature.

Laying out the physical realities and philosophical ties of Time Divisa, a May 2011 article for Artforum by Chus Martínez explains that «the true politics of Macotela's enterprise is premised on his articulation of possibilities for agency, solidarity, and even trust within this system - and by extension, across the «carceral continuum» that Foucault envisioned as contiguous with society as a whole.»