Sentences with phrase «sort of actuality»

God's existence does not compete with the existence of any other individuals whatever, for it is compatible with any sort of actuality at all.

The question is: what sort of actuality does the historical being in question have?

Whitehead's attack on «scientific materialism» in SMW and his eventual adoption of a position which is interpreted by many, to teach that there are two sorts of actualities, microscopic physical entities and human persons (e.g., Wallack, ENPWM 6), calls to mind Pope's lines (An Essay on Man, IV):

Not exact matches

But his insistence that» [t] he envisaging creativity, the continuum of extension, B's anticipatory feeling of C, the disjunctive plurality of attained actualities, the multiplicity of eternal objects, and the primordial nature of God are all alike involved in the creation of C's dative [i.e., purely receptive] phase» (326) would lead one to believe that some sort of objective medium must he present to facilitate the transmission to the new occasion of so many non-objective factors in its self - constitution (e g creativity, the anticipatory feelings of B and other past occasions, the multiplicity of eternal objects, the divine primordial nature, etc.).

An actual being of a certain sort precedes its possible successors, and the actuality of the entity grounds its reproducibility and thereby its potentiality.

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

Our question, then, is whether reflexive relations of this sort possess true actuality or only the appearance of reality.

For all reflexive relationships of this sort, then, the following holds true: Insofar as such a reflexivity is truly real with respect to its structural factors — insofar then as it is the actuality of things and substances which it reflects — to that extent becoming and pure time have to all appearances vanished from it.

Is not God's inclusion of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting actuality a sort of «judgement»?

Moreover, substance in the sense of a divine substratum in which three persons inhere is just that sort of vacuous actuality devoid of its own subjectivity that Whitehead rejects.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

But if (as I shall be assuming throughout this paper) possibilities do constitute a continuum, what sort of knowledge does God have of them, and how does that knowledge relate to actualities and to God's purposes for the universe?

«All or none» principles operate on many levels and give rise to effective actualities of many sorts.

For Leclerc actuality is thus not what the scholastics would call «first act», or the act that makes a thing to be a certain sort of thing (that by which a flower is a flower, for example); rather it is a process, a change, and an activity.

I think it's so funny that I'm always making all sorts of fancy, sugary, ridiculous deliciousness for the blog when in actuality, my day - to - day diet is pretty boring.

In actuality, the realization that these women are available does not even occur to them until white tits are shaking in their face after they have acquired some sort of superficial status.

It is the sort of system that often is described as «broken» even though in actuality it's explicitly designed to be broken!

You'd be forgiven for thinking this title might be some sort of spin - off from the BioShock series, but in actuality is the spiritual successor to Dear Esther.

As a concept, the Prodigy is intriguing, but the actuality sort of stinks.