Sentences with phrase «superseding actuality»

In sum, thanks to the rigors of the creative advance, actualities lose their immediacy and the experiential incorporation of their individual achievement in superseding actuality (PR 340 / 517).
After that point an actual entity has only objective existence, whereby it serves as an «object» in the constitution of a superseding actuality and becomes a datum for the creative advance (PR 72).
Even assuming Whitehead did not intend to imply present actualizations are causes in past actualities, 9 still, there is one important exception to the truth that a satisfied actuality is in all superseding actualities: Beings created by contemporaries are not in every successive process.

Not exact matches

A «concept» is an aspect of one's inclusive conceptual actuality; it is born as a unique, «nonactual [ized]» (Process 22) characteristic of the actuality that first created it conceptually before being diffused into its superseding world physically.
A finite actuality or occasion of experience exhausts its creativity (its only power of transcendence) in a momentary act of self - unification, to be superseded by others.
In «causal objectification» what is felt subjectively by the objectified actual entity is transmitted objectively to the concrescent actualities which supersede it.
See Process and Reality, the definition of causal objectification as the transmission, by a subject, of what it objectifies to the future actual entities: «In «causal objectification» what is felt subjectively by the objectified actual entity is transmitted objectively to the concrescent actualities that supersede it» (58).
Not so with despair: every actual instant of despair is to be referred back to possibility, every instant the man in despair is contracting it, it is constantly in the present tense, nothing comes to pass here as a consequence of a bygone actuality superseded; at every actual instant of despair the despairer bears as his responsibility all the foregoing experience in possibility as a present.
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