Sentences with phrase «prehension of the actualities»

Nothing is said about omniscience including any direct prehension of actuality.

Many believe that this divine knowledge of evil, pain, and degradation is not possible apart from the actual physical prehension of the actualities of the world as they happen.

His prehensions of these actualities as they occur are unified into a harmony.

Not exact matches

The structure of a physical prehension bears this out: it is a present, subjective appropriation of a determinately unified actuality, which must be past in order to be fully determinate.

There is still, however, the same threefold character: (i) The «primordial nature» of God is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual feelings... (ii) The «consequent nature» of God is the physical prehension by God of the actualities of the evolving universe... (iii) The «superjective» nature10 of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances.

It looks back to the constitution of an actual occasion by other actualities in terms of internal relations (prehensions) in Science and the Modern World and forward to «transition» (PR 210C).

Its function, we said, is God's conditioning of temporal actuality as a result of his prehension and harmonization of the antecedent world.

The consequent nature of God is «the physical prehension by God of the actualities of the evolving universe» (PR 134).

At any rate, the function that does seem relatively clear is that God conditions temporal actuality as a result of his prehension and harmonization of the antecedent world.

... prehension is a radically one - way dependence of an actuality upon «antecedent» conditions, that is, temporally prior actualities prehending is a form of including, whereby reality is enriched, «increased» in multiplicity of factors.

5To simplify the following analysis, I shall assume (with Whitehead) that prehension is the only form of causal influence between actualities and that all eternal objects are uncreated and hence definite.

It arises out of a particular stage of the world through its «objectification» or nonconscious «prehension» of the systematically arrayed actualities in its past (PR 5lff / 81ff.)

What is at least analogical in the scheme is the idea of prehension as dependence of an actuality on other actualities, or of participation, feeling of feeling, experience of experience, together with sense of futurity.

The prehension of God's consequent nature (how God has prehended the past actuality of that occasion) reveals a specific response to the past occasion.

It possesses a set of physical prehensions, the way by which it prehends other past actualities which causally influence it.

We have already seen that each actuality is an organismic unity, whether it be the unity of prehensions in an actual occasion, the unity of a nexus of actual occasions, or even the unity of many nexus.

In his account, a prehension is the way in which one actuality participates in the constitution of another actuality.

The romantic stage is similar to the prehension of data from the past and the lure of the possibilities of the future; the stage of precision parallels the stage of the creative synthesis of these data and possibilities; the stage of generalization resembles the final stage of the becoming of a momentary experience, the culmination of an actuality's drive toward fulfillment, or in Whitehead's word, satisfaction.

The fact that the prehension of other actualities is a prehension» of them as other supplies the basis for one of Whitehead's central concepts, that prehensions have a «vector» character (PR 28).

But by the principle of relativity there can only be one non-derivative actuality, unbounded by its prehensions of an actual world.

In his primordial nature God prehends the infinite realm of possibilities; in his consequent nature he prehends the actualities of the world his superjective nature is a result of weaving his consequent prehensions upon his primordial vision.

Each actuality is related to other entities by prehensions, which are components of the concrescences of the others.

The mental pole is the entity's prehensions of eternal objects, not as embedded in past actualities, but as potentials apart from their role in any particular entity.

Often it almost seems as if Whitehead gives precedence to prehension over [actual] entity, as when he drops the remark that a prehension could be taken for a [complete] actuality even though it ultimately makes up only an aspect of the [actual] entity [248] as a subordinate element of its totality.

The process theory of sequential societies of actualities, each of which is created and then persists thereafter as an objectified datum of prehension in later actualities, seems calculated to take the complexities into account more definitely and naturally than any talk about a rigorous continuity of action defining a single, identical, yet changing individual.

«With the purpose of obtaining a one - substance cosmology, «prehensions» are a generalization from Descartes» mental «cogitations», and from Locke's «ideas», to express the most concrete mode of analysis applicable to every grade of individual actuality» (PR 19/29).

(2) Direct prehensions of satisfactions other than those presented by God's superject, that is, direct prehensions of those who reach satisfaction in unison with the last divine actuality.

Prehending others, in addition to one's prehension of God, is a metaphysical necessity because no actuality can begin to create without a novel standpoint Novelty is only possible if an actuality begins with an actual world different from any accomplishment already in being.

In the latter, a nexus is felt as one actual entity, whereas in the former the object of the prehension is one actuality.

«The prehension into God of each creature is directed with the subjective air» (PR 523), and «the wisdom of subjective aim prehends every actuality for what it can be in such a perfected system» (PR 525).