Not exact matches
They're going to believe what they want to believe no matter what happens or what the
actual facts of reality are.
This adventure embraces all particular occasions but as an
actual fact stands beyond any one
of them... [It] includes among its components all individual
realities, each with the importance
of the personal or social
fact to which it belongs.
Another presupposition is the
reality of an
actual world beyond ourselves; no adequate philosophy can deny or even doubt this
fact.
In
fact, it is the consideration
of evil which constrains us to make this new move; now, with the consideration
of evil, it is the very question,
of freedom,
of the real freedom evoked by the postulates
of the Critique
of Practical Reason, which returns; the problematic
of evil requires us to tie, more directly than we have so far been able to do, the
actual reality of freedom to the regeneration which is the very content
of hope.
To be sure, God is for Jesus almighty, but prayer
of petition involves the insight that the concept
of omnipotence by no means lies at man's disposal as a way
of viewing
reality, that man does not in
actual fact possess the knowledge
of God as the Almighty.
In
reality many
of these accusations are greatly tempered by a simple objective look at the
actual facts of history.
The
fact that in the later phases
of an
actual occasion this scalar form overwhelms the original vector form, and the
fact that the scalar quantity
of inertia was dominant in Newtonian physics, have led to a tendency to spatialize
reality, to ignore the
fact that all fundamental physical quantities are vector rather than scalar (PR 268, 319).
In
fact, the three aspects
of reality emphasized by Blackmur, Brooks, and Sartre, respectively, may be distinguished in terms
of the three basic phases
of an
actual occasion as analyzed by Whitehead.
For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate
fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature»
of God in Process and
Reality: «The «superjective» nature
of God is the character
of the pragmatic value
of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the
actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light
of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification
of the consequent nature.
The
fact that the ontological principle is mentioned in two
of the most important passages that express the early concept
of God in Process and
Reality suggests that extending the application
of that process and principle was what brought Whitehead to include a non-temporal
actual entity (that is, God) in his metaphysical system.
Now, Whitehead considers the extensive continuum as «real» «because it expresses a
fact derived from the
actual world and concerning the contemporary
actual world... It is the
reality of what is potential, in its character
of a real component
of what is
actual» (PR 66/103).
Perhaps I am misunderstanding as well when it seems like all you want to consider is the cold hard
facts of matter without accounting properly for the human condition to misunderstand them completely and yet be able to draw out useful meaning though imprecise, anyway, and the impact such
actual conditions have on your objective
reality, which isn't if you exclude them.
He wrote it rather to point to a
reality, a
reality which is so real in the
actual events that occurred that he needed only supply the connecting links in the spirit
of the existing
facts and sayings in order to make it complete.
fact [fakt] something known to be true: something that can be shown to be true, to exist, or to have happened truth or
reality of something: the truth or
actual existence
of something, as opposed to the supposition
of something or a belief about something piece
of information: a piece
of information, e.g. a statistic or a statement
of the truth
An eternal object is «neutral as to the
fact of its physical ingression in any particular
actual entity
of the temporal world» (Process and
Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 70), but there can be no
actual entity apart from creativity.
Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the
fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences come, («The influence
of the Holy Spirit, exquisitely called the Comforter, is a matter
of actual experience, as solid a
reality as that
of electro - magnetism.»
While stories and games set in the outdoors can be both great fun and full
of material for learning, the simple
fact is that virtual
reality (as yet) is unable to compete with
actual reality.
Ill - informed and, with all due respect, blatantly false statements like the above beg for a response based on
actual facts about the present
reality and near - future potential
of solar and wind energy — not only in industrialized countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, and the USA, but in particular to meet the needs
of the developing world, where these technologies are already enabling a revolution in rural electrification.
The only
facts I see are
actual measurements, not the trash that comes from Global temperature models, which is at best an interpretation
of facts, and GCM's which are even further disconnected from
reality.
The «balance
of convenience» is in
reality a balance that occurs naturally within a truely freely operating market economy wherein buyer / seller forces act automatically, over time, to right any
actual and / or perceived wrongs that would be being experienced by consumers as they examined the benefits, or not,
of dealing with business operations at play within said market place... with said market place being entirely devoid
of bureaucratic socialistic pupetteering (before - the -
fact of forcing the market to seek «its» interpretation
of top - down derived equilibrium).