Sentences with phrase «relational essence»

This is what Whitehead speaks of as its «relational essence» — see his chapter on «Abstraction» in Science and the Modern World.

Kraus explains this as part of the relational essence of an eternal object which includes «the indefinite plurality of relations which constitute the status of the eternal object in the realm of possibility» (ME 34).

It should be observed, however, that «no individual essence is realizable apart from some of its potentialities of relationship, that is, apart from its relational essence» (PR 115 / 176).

But no individual essence is realizable apart from some of its potentialitie5 of relationship, that is, apart from its relational essence.

The fact that only certain sets of these relations between calls will form a dance which continues without interruption accounts for the non-unique relational essence.

Although Schmidt derives his view from the SMW chapter «Abstraction,» he evidently finds the basis for his observation in statements Whitehead made about the relational essence of eternal objects, and this buttresses my own conclusions.

If X5S1 is to display itself in its for - otherness aspect, the process of gaining actuality will bring into play the second set of characteristics: non-unique relational essence (3), element of associated hierarchy (5), rendering of possibility of decision (6), ingression (8), and repeatability (9).

I point out, however, that even Christian does not fully explicate Whitehead's doctrine of the relational essence of eternal objects as is attempted in this paper, for he chooses to focus on the internal relatedness involved in objectification rather than the internal relatedness that also obtains between eternal objects themselves.

That aspect of the eternal object which is its for - the - world perspective is also indicated by the characteristics of non-unique relational essence (3), element of associative hierarchy (5), pattern (7), and repeatability (9).

Moreover, sensa are declared to have some form of realization that differs from that of patterns: «But the realization of a sensum in its ideal shallowness of intensity, with zero width, does not require any other eternal object, other than its intrinsic apparatus of individual and relational essence; it can remain just itself, with its unrealized potentialities for patterned contrasts» (PR 115 / 176).

It is never the same dance, but it is a repetition of the pattern in a non-unique relational essence.

In the realm of eternal objects — a realm in which the relationships between objects are simultaneously unselective and systematically complete — we discover the musical tone «B.» Considered purely with respect to its relational essence, «B» entertains the possibility of many relations: it may be a tonic, a dominant, a subdominant, a neopolitan, a relative minor; it may form the base of a fully diminished vii chord, or the seventh tone of a V / V chord, the third tone in a twelve - tone row, the fourth interval in a five - tone cell, and so on.

Mathematically, the procedure's relational essence (in a much simplified example) can be expressed:

The «rubbing» (tribe in) in dialectic of the occasion against its associated form continues to yield partial relations describing the occasion more fully in its relational essence.

But the eternal object must also be considered in reference to other eternal objects — that is, in its «relational essence.»

Thus the individual essence of turquoise blue is quite aloof from the relational essence of turquoise blue and can characterize the specific definiteness of a particular actual entity without involving necessarily the specific individual essence of any particular geometrical shape, though through its relational essence it does specify the range, and the «how» relationship, of all possible geometrical figures, x1, x2,... x11, which have the requisite status to possibly merge with that individual essence turquoise blue in constituting the complex synthesis of forms which is the peculiar, concrete definiteness of an individual actual entity.

This definite «how» relationship is a component of the relational essence of each shade and each figure, and binds all the shades and all the figures together internally.

The relational essence of turquoise blue vis - a-vis any four - sided plane figure is not unique to turquoise blue, but is the same as that of pea green and jet black.

The relational essence of an eternal object specifies a particular how relationship.

A relational essence admits of many other relations than just extensive relations and represents a variety of possibilities for realization (SMW 231).

Each relation belongs to the relational essence of green and together are constitutive of the eternal object green (SMW 230).

He does not argue, but merely asserts that the relational essence of an eternal object A refers to «a set of extensive relations which give it [A] a status in this abstract system» and «to logico - mathematical relationships» akin to eternal objects of the objective species in Process and Reality (PW 77/79).

These different modes of ingression are a function of the eternal object's relational essence, that is, of its patience for being jointly ingressed with other eternal objects having the requisite relational essence (SMW 229f).

The relational essence is the necessary interconnectedness that all eternal objects have with each other.

He affirms that they have both an individual essence and a relational essence.

The «relational essence of an eternal object, Whitehead tells us,

Eternal objects, for example, are connected inter se: they are all mutually transcendent in respect to their individual essences; but many are mutually immanent in respect to their relational essences (SMW, chapter X).

I shall not present a full discussion of Whitehead's notions of individual essences and relational essences, as such discussions are already available (PCW 91 - 98).

In either case they are interrelated by their relational essences.

In this way there is individual, unique determination of actual entities while there is also the tight welding of relational essences into a realm of pure potentialities.

Forms considered in abstraction contain within their relational essences contraries which can not simultaneously «be.»

Therefore, sensa and patterns do not differ in the respect that they must be essentially related to other eternal objects in physical ingression, and this aspect of their relational essences guarantees that no eternal object can physically ingress individually.

This is to say that the physical ingression of all eternal objects involves their relational essences.

Upon reflection it may be seen that this «law of multiple ingression» traces its roots directly from Whitehead's attribution of relational essences to all eternal objects and is implicit in PR 114 - 15 / 174 - 76).4

Since eternal objects are thus conceived to be necessarily related to one another in physical ingression by way of their relational essences, the monadic ingression of an eternal object is rendered systematically impossible.

For Whitehead, God first functioned as «the principle of limitation,»... In Process and Reality, the eternal objects are organized together and given their respective «relational essences» by the primordial or non-temporal activity of God.

Not exact matches

Basically, God is a relational being within himself and that «community» is illustrated in the family and in the essence of every human.

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

The Whiteheadian actuality, the occasion, represents a complete and thoroughgoing rejection of the substance - attribute conception, and is entirely relational in its essence.

Cf. further Whitehead's note that the essence of a thing is to be prehensive, receptive, and relational (PR 41).

But the soul, or rather each occasion of its life, like every other actual occasion of experience, is relational or social in its essence.

The essence of attachment parenting is loving care that features a reciprocal, relational approach that goes deeper than this simple formula: «The three basic tenets are breast - feeding (sometimes into toddlerhood), co-sleeping (inviting babies into the parental bed or pulling a bassinet alongside it) and «baby wearing,» in which infants are literally attached to their mothers via slings.»

It is, in essence, a relational database management system.

This is the essence of human relational connection.