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For, the activity of lifting out an eternal object and feeling it as an eternal object, i.e., as a pure possibility in abstraction from all physical realizations, is a matter of degree.

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But, even in the fundamental thinkers of high modernity, hints can be found that knowledge requires God: Descartes uses God in the Meditations in order to escape from the interiority where the cogito has stranded him; Kant uses God as a postulate of pure practical reason in order to hold on to the possibility of morality.

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.

More importantly, for the societal view as well as for the entitative, the primordial nature is an adjustment of pure conceptual possibilities, so that although in the former view there is a temporality to its successive reconstitution, there is no temporality in its valuation.

Ford speaks, it is true, of a divine «temporal freedom,» but this freedom wholly derives from the divine nontemporal decision and thus amounts only to the temporal emergence of a nontemporal freedom: «God's temporal freedom is exercised in his integrative and propositional activity, where he fits to each actual world that gradation of pure possibilities best suited to contribute to the maximum intensity and harmony of his consequent physical experience» (IPQ 13:376; my emphasis).

I wish to add that God's freedom is also temporal as well as nontemporal, and that his influence on the world, beyond his free, nontemporal valuation of pure possibilities, lies in the emotional intensity with which he freely loves the particulars of the world both for what they are and for what they can become.

It is, then, these unconscious valuations of pure conceptual possibilities which rise to consciousness in God's propositional feelings about the world.

The passage seems to say that the ultimate metaphysical reality that underlies and expresses itself in every concrete occurrence of actuality or value «envisages» possibilities both in pure abstraction and in their relevance for actual entities, as well as «envisaging» the actual entities themselves.

However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar of polytheism: a vision of multiple «little divinities» effecting random syntheses of differential elements within an immanent space of possibilities: a theory of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

In ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualizIn ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualizin life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualizin a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualize.

In them we are dealing with «pure» possibilities that have not yet been subjected to the conditions of already completed realizations.

Instead of eternal objects as «pure possibilities,» what we really need are what are often called «real possibilities,» possibilities so rooted in that particular situation as to be actualizable.

There must be an actual entity that mediates between pure possibility, which is fully abstract, and the occasions that are coming into being in the world.

There is reason to think that such a conceptuality can make more adequate sense of the possibility of new beginnings and new creations in history than a pure humanism can.

For example, it is a general or pure possibility that I might win the 100 - meter dash in the next Olympic Games, but this is not a real possibility given my creaky joints, advancing years, etc. «Real potentiality» refers to those possibilities for the ingression of eternal objects which still remain after one strikes from consideration the impossibilities which the conditions of a given, factual world eliminate from the horizon of any particular actual entity or set of actual entities arising out of that world.

«The «primordial nature» of God is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual feelings» (PR 134), which «achieves, in its unity of satisfaction, the complete conceptual valuation of all eternal objects» (PR 48) or pure forms, thereby generating the entire structuring of pure possibility.4 Seen in terms of his everlasting aspect or consequent nature, however, the only way God is directly related to the World, the converse is true.

It is precisely in the introduction of formative elements as conditions of the possibility of actual entities, according to Collingwood, that Whitehead differs from Alexander.25 Furthermore, the status of one of these formative elements, the «eternal objects,» is analogous to that of the «abstract entities»: 26 both are situated between the realism of ideas and pure nominalism.

The result is a scheme containing nine basic possibilities ranging from a view of God as the independent cause of the world, absolutely perfect in all respects, to a view of God as pure relativity, wholly bound up with the world process and having no element of independence, necessity, or self - existence.8 Hartshorne's position proves to be the perfect embodiment of the «golden mean,» incorporating all the positive features of the various possibilities, but excluding their (arbitrary) negations.

Even «the ultimate evil in the temporal world» concerns how present actualities obstruct past ones (PR 340), not pure possibilities.

Thus, pure possibilities are entertained in terms of all the situations in which they could possibly be actualized.

Nevertheless, there are difficulties inherent in the solution.5 It enlarges the scope of what is nontemporally valued to include not only all pure possibilities but also all real possibilities.

In its function as the sharpest focus of definite connectedness, it is likewise at the maximal remove from pure possibility.

In effect, she transforms real possibilities into eternal pure possibilities.

The divine program, nontemporally determined, would include all pure and real possibilities, but it would be subjective in name only.

The well - known phrase «impossible possibility» stands here in Niebuhr's thought for the warning that the pure love of God transcends human possibility.17 At the same time an element of uncalculating sacrificial giving of the self to the good of the other is possible for man.

This may be an idiosyncratic reading of Christ in a Pluralistic Age, 39 yet it follows naturally from Cobb's proposal that Christ should be accorded the status of a Whiteheadian proposition.40 Such a proposition is neither an actuality nor a pure possibility but a hybrid of both.

This we find in Whitehead's conception of the primordial envisagement of all pure possibilities.

For Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, for example, things in the world can change only if there is something that changes or actualizes everything else without the need (or indeed even the possibility) of its being actualized itself, precisely because it is already «pure actuality.»

Hence, to bridge the gap between pure possibilities and their real availability to process, God has to be an actual entity in which those possibilities are contained.

Both questions lead in the same direction, toward the possibility of a provisional and qualified answer: if the character of happening only once is held to belong to the truth and measure of all things in their very reality, then there is indeed an essence which more than any other satisfies this truth - criterion, and this is the pure essence of time: time taken in itself, or pure movement — movement irrespective of any possible differentiation into the different kinds of movement.

Accordingly, this «category of conceptual valuation» states that, e.g., after having a feeling of the green feeling in a previous actual entity, the present subject will in the second phase of its experience feel green qua green, i.e., as a pure possibility, in abstraction from its ingression in the actual world.

We also prehend pure potentials, or pure possibilities, in abstraction from any embodiment.

Finally, in still a third article in the same issue of Process Studies, Lewis Ford initially commends Oomen for her highly original solution to the problem of God's prehensibility by worldly actual occasions but finds problems with her own (and Whitehead's) consequent inability to distinguish real possibilities here and now emergent within the divine consequent nature from the atemporal pure possibilities forever contained in the divine primordial nature (Ford 140).

God's primordial nature is his abiding, abstract aim expressed in terms of his conceptual adjustment of pure possibility.

Anyone who clings to the truth of one of the relations in isolation can never be forced from it by pure negation (by being proved flatly wrong); one can only be attracted by the possibility of enhancement.

According to Suchocki, a supplement to God's primordial satisfaction would be impossible because that satisfaction already contains all possibilities.37 It is indeed the case that all eternal objects are envisaged in God's primordial nature according to Whitehead and, by this, that all pure potentials are accounted for.

For we could not think of pure possibilities, if all eternal objects, of which the ideas of mathematics only constitute a subgroup, necessarily had to find an application in nature.

To be sure, there is here the possibility of a greater degree of subjectivity than in the more formal linguistic and textual study, but even there pure objectivity is by no means possible.

With Whitehead we can make a formal distinction between two natures or aspects of God's actuality: his primordial nature as the locus of all pure possibilities, which God draws upon in order to provide the initial aims for each emerging event, and his consequent nature as the ultimate recipient of all actuality, which is perfectly experienced and treasured within God.

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«There are now many more possibilities in the pursuit of both device applications and the pure physics of clean systems.»

With a little creativity, industrial applications can be foreseen in many of the results from pure research, resulting in outstanding career possibilities for young scientists.

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It is committed to romantic optimism, to the possibility that love can win out against the odds — that it can endure as something pure and idiosyncratic, in a way that only Cassavetes could conceive.

We appear to be in for something of an island romantic comedy, as the two unlikely allies — rough, masculine, faithless orphan marine Allison and the simple, pure - hearted Angela — go hunting for a turtle together and consider the possibility that they'll have to survive on the island's ample natural resources for years to come until a rescue.

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In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France - a moment of pure possibilitIn February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France - a moment of pure possibilitin a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France - a moment of pure possibility.

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