Sentences with phrase «qua reality»

Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occurs.

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However, he leaves open the question as to which criteria prove a religion or spirituality to be «authentic» and «true», if religions are, qua religion, catholic, i.e. oriented towards (Cosmotheandric) Reality.

Thus process is the nature of reality qua the actual entities.

Moreover — and it is here that Hartshorne is unequivocally opposed to some idealistic theories — the object perceived is externally related to the perceiver since he, qua perceiver, is passively receptive and in no way affects its reality.