Sentences with phrase «qua subjects»

To the extent that an actual entity can not transcend its subjectivity and have access to other actual entities qua subjects, Whitehead can not be said to succeed in mitigating metaphysical subjectivity.

Surely, whatever else Whitehead is saying here, he is saying that actual occasions are repeated (qua superjects only, never qua subjects), for among the «elements» in the universe relative to the origination of a novel creature are all those occasions which have already completed their becoming, i.e., those which are already superjects; hence, every superject accumulated in the wake of the universe's creative advance is repeated in each novel creature at the utmost verge of that advance.

Clearly, then, Whitehead intended «actuality» to be predicable of the occasion qua superject, as well as of the occasion qua subject; and this is what we would expect only if «actuality» is to be predicated of whatever either is, or has been, self - realizing.

Hence, an occasion qua subject is an entity, but it is not a being.

Finally, since the occasion's position remains unchanged throughout all the phases of the occasion's existence, it serves as one ground for the identity of the occasion qua subject with the occasion qua superject.

2 Given the synonymity of «entity» and «being» it would seem that an occasion qua subject could not be properly called an entity.

But what the occasion qua subject is aiming at is the realization of itself qua superject.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.

Thus, on the one band, the analysis of what an occasion is qua subject requires a reference to what the same occasion will be qua superject; for the subject is not an aimless, creative process, but is guided instead by its ideal of what the superject or outcome of that process is to be (PR 130).

«Actual entity» is almost a contradiction in terms, James argues, because the occasion is actual only qua subject, and an entity only qua superject.

Thus God also, qua subject, can have no access to other actual entities qua subjects and can not be a principle of external relations.

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Whether it's doing the daily cross-word, conversing on difficult subjects, learning a language, or simply doing an interesting manual task, keeping active is at the heart of mental health, and the sine qua non of keeping on top of memory as you age.

On that reading, for example, when Whitehead says that the «being» of an occasion is created by its «becoming», he is simply telling us that the occasion qua actual superject is created by the same occasion qua actual subject; and that is, of course, one of the main points of the said doctrine.

The main thrust of this essay, then, is to establish that the principle of process asserts that an occasion qua actual subject creates, or produces, that same occasion qua actual superject.

Relational in character, they are precisely the means by which the other qua other is introduced into a prehending subject.

Yet if different wholes were subject to different laws qua.

The truth or falsity of a proposition has importance in the determination of a correct or incorrect standpoint of the judging subject, but this importance is not relevant for the proposition qua proposition; as Whitehead explains: since each actual world is relative to standpoint, it is only some actual entities which will have the standpoints so as to include, in their actual world, the actual entities which constitute the logical subjects of the proposition» (PR 193 / 293f.).

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.

His possession of a developed subliminal self, and of a leaky or pervious margin, is thus a conditio sine qua non of the Subject's becoming converted in the instantaneous way.

Bodies and their various organs are the necessary primary receptors of the multifarious influences conveyed by signs qua possibilities, for that is what signs come down to.13 And signs in general have the power to arouse concrete feelings in embodied subjects; such as, for instance, the «qualitative feels» in conscious experiences.14

It seems to me that anytime the actual entity qua actual, i.e., qua subjective immediacy, is taken into consideration, the naive realistic discourse, appropriate to cosmogonic or scientific explanation, has to be abandoned and the causally efficacious datum is to be conceived as a component of the percipient subject qua concrescence whereby transition as such is lost sight of and replaced by process.

Law qua law falls into the realm of I «it relations because the law, precisely by applying to all equally, treats each of its subjects impersonally» that is, as an «it.»

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.

And it's still the most energetic sex filmmaking, qua filmmaking, around: 2,800 setups, Meyer told an SFS preview audience, and they do go blazing past, so frenetically, and some of them downright dynamically, that anybody with camera - and cutting - sense is going to have a hard — make that a difficult — time keeping his mind on the ostensible subject.

This is a painter qua painter, although she works in all kinds of mediums, but the way that she uses digital images as the subject for her hand paintings just slays me.

Nothing in the PBA allows that the employer qua administrator will be held to a lower standard or will be subject to duties and obligations that are less stringent than those of an independent administrator.