Sentences with phrase «substantial activity»

But if we allow metaphysics at all, the introduction of a third attribute of the underlying substantial activity would have seemed a normal way to round out the system.

I would be surprised if there is not already substantial activity along those lines.

I have received substantial activity from recruiters.....

In this completed doctrine of God, Whitehead had come a long way from the first introduction of the principle of limitation as one of the three attributes of substantial activity.

To suggest both his agreement and disagreement with Spinoza in his ultimate monism, Whitehead affirms substantial activity as the ultimate reality at the base of things.

Nevertheless, the connotations associated with substantial activity in the earlier work still find expression in a number of passages.

In Religion in the Making, we saw that two of the attributes, God and temporal occasions, were grouped together as actual entities, leaving only substantial activity and its two attributes of eternal objects and actual entities.

Now, after the completion of the first stage of the merger, Blockchain Mining is at last starting substantial activity in cryptocurrencies through the mining server farm that Bitfarms operates in Quebec.

Whereas substantial activity was that of which all the other three were attributes, creativity is accorded no such favored place.

This means that substantial activity necessarily adopts these forms which are then declared, in accordance with Spinozistic terminology, to be its attributes.

It turns out they have substantial activity against Demodex mites and are successful enough that they may supplant ivermectin as the treatment of choice.

Proposals that would generate substantial activity, to say nothing of profit, tend to attract much interest, whereas those that recommend reducing activity, to say nothing of profit, attract little interest.

In the area of eRulemaking, the coming year may see substantial activity, on three fronts in particular:

When the metaphysical questions were raised in Science and the Modern World, they were answered in terms of substantial activity and its three attributes.

In these quotations we can see that the envisagement of the eternal objects, which was referred, in the first Lowell lectures, to the underlying substantial activity, (see earlier in this ch.)

The study identified that nociceptin has substantial activity in asthma models given before or during an asthma attack — and that a single molecule reduces both the immune response and causes dilation.

If the principle of limitation is an attribute of substantial activity, then it would seem that substantial activity should be called God rather than one of its attributes.

Substantial activity, as such, is totally formless and neutral with respect to form.

This decision can not be a function of the substantial activity as such, of the eternal objects, or of the actual entities.

In concreto, substantial activity is given only in actual entities which are called its modes.

Whitehead invites comparison of the substantial activity with Spinoza's one infinite substance, and in Spinoza it is that substance which is called God — certainly not one of its attributes.

Both substantial activity and the realm of pure possibility are entirely neutral with respect to what kinds of actual entities shall occur: for example, as to the number of dimensions they shall have.

In the formulation of the problem of limitation we followed Science and the Modern World in speaking of four ultimates: actual entities, eternal objects, substantial activity, and God.

First, the underlying substantial activity is now called creativity (RM 90.)

The envisagement of the actual entities as well as of the eternal objects is now attributed to God rather than to the underlying substantial activity.

In Science and the Modern World, we encountered four metaphysical principles: the underlying substantial activity and its three attributes — eternal objects, actual entities, and the principle of limitation.

The substantial activity here called the underlying and eternal activity Whitehead associates with Spinoza's «one infinite substance,» (SMW 181, 255.)

This means both that his argument for the existence of the third attribute of the substantial activity is an argument for the existence of God and that the God of religion is not the metaphysical ultimate or absolute, since he is only one of three attributes of the substantial activity.

Process 26), or an «ultimate individual fact» which he says «must be describable as process» (Modes 120, Adventures 199, emphasis added), or the self that determines itself (Modes 131), or the «substantial activity of individualization» (Science 123), or when he also says «the subject of the feeling is causa sui» and any feeling is impossible to understand «without recourse to the whole subject» (Process 221, emphasis added).

It also requires an underlying activity — a substantial activity — expressing itself in achievements of organism (Whitehead 1925, pp. 151 - 152).

God was to be viewed as a unique attribute of the substantial activity alongside of eternal objects and actual occasions.

Substantial activity seems to be thought of as an explanation of the universe in a way that would participate in efficiency as well as in passive materiality, but in fact the Aristotelian categories of causality do not apply to Spinoza's vision of infinite substance.

and with it the term «substantial activity.»

That is also the reason why Whitehead in Science and the Modern World talks about «substantial activity» and not just about «Substance»: Substance «is,» but «substantial activity» is for Whitehead nothing but «the underlying... activity of individuation» (Science 123).

In Science and the Modern World Whitehead conceived «God» not as an actual entity, but as a first characterization (or limitation) of substantial activity.

This «stronger» view of creativity is completely in line with Whitehead's earlier work, such as Science and the Modern World, where creativity is conceived as the substantial activity, which was «an activity of individuation.»