Sentences with phrase «same kind of entity»

For the correspondence between the two to be identical, a civilized society would have to be the exact same kind of entity as some other type of Society, inanimate or personal for example, which of course is not the case.

Not exact matches

The circumstances required for sexual reproduction (different in kind from what I mean by «metaphysical division,» although a different branch on the same path of interaction between matter and the élan vital) by more complex entities is of course still more particular (and improbable without the intentional element).

While an event is relative in being internally related to other entities of the same logical type; which it requires by a necessity that is «particular and definite,» a species or genus is relative only in that it requires, by a necessity that is «generic or indefinite,» one or more intentional classes (of individuals or of other more specific kinds), all of which are only contingently nonempty (1970a, l0l f., 103, 109).

In each case, the source of the difficulty is the same: in the sense that he himself expressly gives the term, it can be applied at most to entities of some specific kind or kinds and, therefore, is anything but a variable having «an infinite range of values» (116).

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

My case was one in which the author, editor and reader are all known entities (in fact, they all know each other personally); the reading takes place in the exact same cultural and social context as the writing and editing; and the reader is himself a really smart guy, Ivy - league Ph.D. and all, who had spent a decade training the editor to be a certain kind of editor, with specific tools unique to the specific publication's aims.

Since the difference between a «zero amount and a «negligible» amount of some capacity is a difference in kind, this change would in principle allow the entities of physics to be interpreted in terms of the same categories used for interpreting entities in which the capacity for self - determination is not negligible.

Indeed, that kind of analysis shows that the section in which it is located — the third section of the first chapter in the second part of Process and Reality (II.I.3)-- is mostly made of insertions.34 However, given its thematic continuity with materials that belong to the original version of that same section and of the previous section (II.I.2), the first full paragraph of Process 46 appears to belong to that original version.35 More precisely, Whitehead had clearly stated, in section II.I.2, his option for a «theory embracing the notions of «actual entity», «giveness», and «process»» (Process 43), a theory in which «the ontological principle is the first stage» (Process 43).

At first glance, the formulation of the problem from which Whitehead proceeds in MC — he still clings to the presupposition of the cosmological adequacy and precision of the theoretical language of mathematics — must seem to be itself an aporia: Whitehead wants to investigate various ways — in the first instance internal to mathematics (but cf. MC 465, 524)-- of considering the «nature of the material world»; at the same time, however, he wants to understand this world as a unity which, even though conceived as in motion, consists of only one kind of entity (MC 468, 479, 482, 525).

Finally, Whitehead's methodology of descriptive generalization would, on the micrological view, be seen as belonging within a particular tradition, i.e., as involving what might be called a «metaphysical reduction» of the empirical world to some foundational and actual element, on the same methodological lines as Leibniz's monads, Bradley's substrative feeling, Alexander's space - time matrix, or Heidegger's Being.12 In other words, Whitehead's actual entities are conceived as having a special kind of actuality of their own as the ground or foundation from which the empirical world derives.

Whereas once upon a time some of the Wal - Mart professors did their work as part of an entity called the Manhattan Institute, thanks to a major grant from the Walton Family Foundation, they now get to publish the same kind of materials as scholars with the backing of a major university.

Charities can be susceptible to many of the same kinds of fraudulent activity as any other entity, however some unique vulnerabilities for charities include:

But, I strongly suspect that the fundamental source of the distinction is the kind of case handled by each agency and not agency of employment per se, because constitutionally and for most purposes, SEC employees and Justice Department employees are both employees of the same entity, the federal government of the United States of America.

Rental insurance provides the same coverage as any other kind of insurance offered for individuals or businesses occupying a building that has been rented from another person or entity for use as a home or place of business.

As the Washington Post points out, entities ranging from Tinder to FarmVille to Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign used the same tool to collect many of the same kinds of information.