Sentences with phrase «prehended by any other entity»

Not exact matches

For purposes of illustration, let us have a simple example: A and B are actual entities, and B prehends A. And so there is the nexus — call it the A-B nexus — that is constituted by B's prehension of A. 6 The phrase «prehensions of each other» in the category suggests that, in order to have a nexus, A must also prehend B. However, I think that Whitehead used that phrase loosely, and so its meaning can also be expressed as «prehensions of one another.»

Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.

When an actual entity perishes and becomes objectively immortal, other actual entities prehend it by reenacting some of the same eternal objects that it enacted.

Christian focuses his attention on the simplest case in which one actual entity prehends only one other actual entity in its immediate past by a simple physical feeling.

This relationship can be further explicated in Whitehead's terms by discussing the way in which these entities would prehend each other.

It is to say that each actual entity at its inception must prehend some divine satisfaction or other, and each actual entity at its satisfaction must be prehended by some divine occasion or other.

We prehend other actual entities more primitively by direct mediation of emotional tone, and only secondarily and waveringly by direct meditation of sense (PR 214).

If we were to reconceptualize conscious agents such as human beings so that, at least in this one regard, they were more like God, then we would have an entire class of actual entities which did not immediately reach complete actuality Rather they would continue to concrescence while prehending, and being prehended by; many other actual entities.