Sentences with phrase «temporal succession»

Temporal succession of soil antibiotic resistance genes following application of swine, cattle and poultry manures spiked with or without antibiotics — Yu - Jing Zhang — Environmental Pollution

If we take this literally, it is nonsense; it introduces temporal succession — past and present and future — into the eternal realm, and this is absurd.

Once again, we must note on the other hand that the laws that sustain the predictions make use of the concept of temporal succession.

Moreover, Hartshorne affirms that he does not contradict himself when he asserts the additional twin theses that every concrete entity is a subject (or has objects of knowledge) and that every such entity must be an object for some (anyone will do) subject.31 Furthermore, he argues that only the panpsychistic doctrine of an ocean of subjects internally related to their objects of knowledge can make sense of our deeply ingrained conception of the world as a real nexus of temporal succession of cause - effect relationships.

In Religion in the Making Whitehead talks about a transition of creative action itself: «there is a transition of the creative action, and this transition exhibits itself, in the physical world, in the guise of routes of temporal succession» (92).

But a characteristic of temporal succession, i.e., the progression from one actual entity to another, is the loss of value.

It would be possible to remove material entities and temporal succession.

Everything which we experience is involved in temporal succession.

I have a temporal succession, though not a succession of instants.

CC: There is a temporal succession.

God himself is «in process», in the sense that he is not abstractly eternal, utterly above and beyond all temporal succession.

It is clear from the start, therefore, in an ontology and general metaphysical philosophy of man, that the very question of a possible derivation of spirit from matter has no meaning, because that would amount to attempting to derive what is logically and ontologically prior from what is in both respects posterior, and to imply that what is earlier in temporal succession must ipso facto also be the ontological ground of what in space and time is later and more material.

And since space - time is derivative from temporal succession, Christian concludes that God occupies no spatio - temporal region.

On the contrary, God is thought of in this conception as being preeminently active, but active in ways that do not require temporal succession.

But then, unless Whitehead is going to «treat God as an exception to all metaphysical principles, invoked to save their collapse» (PR, 521), he must hold that there is no temporal succession in the divine life, just as there is none in the concresence of any other actual entity.

The particular feature of concresence that we are interested in at this moment is the fact that it does not involve temporal succession.

The concept of nonsuccessive responses to stages of a temporal succession of events may seem too much to swallow, even to those who are prepared to admit the intelligibility of the specious present for cognitive phenomena.

God lives through temporal succession.

Assuming that the Whiteheadian conception is intelligible, let us see how it could be used to form a conception of process without temporal succession in the divine life.

My perception, though not its object, is without temporal succession.

It is not entirely clear to me whether we can form an intelligible conception of process without temporal succession.

A finite actual entity, though enjoying the common privilege of all actual entities — of concresence without temporal succession — nevertheless occupies a particular finite position in the spatio - temporal continuum.

But a being with an infinite specious present would not, so far as his awareness is concerned, be subject to temporal succession at all.

There are some Whiteheadian philosophers, no doubt, who would tend to think that immanence is adequately explained by the temporal aspect of process: present prehending actual entity following in temporal succession past actual entities which have completed their concrescence and become fully determinate.

These steps presented sequentially in the discussion above may appear to violate Whitehead's claim that concrescence does not occur as temporal succession in physical time (PR 283/434).

Likewise, so the Newtonian view holds, the temporal succession of the universe is simply a series of instants.

James, in «The Stream of Thought,» insists that upon introspection we find the temporal succession of consciousness to be a continuous stream.

I believe that the later development in James's thought concerning the nature of temporal succession answers some crucial difficulties of Bergson's theory.

Therefore, the process of concrescence of its feelings does not involve a temporal succession of them.

The succession of phases is not a temporal succession, but instead is a sort of nontemporal succession.

The words «temporal succession» express the concept of temporal order.

Even though an actual occasion's feelings presuppose its entire basic region — and so they are not in temporal succession — they still can be temporally ordered.

What, then, did he mean by «the genetic process is not the temporal succession»?

But the genetic process [of concrescence] is not the temporal succession» (283).

Therefore, Whitehead's denial of temporal succession amounts to a denial of temporal order.

What Whitehead meant by «the genetic process is not the temporal succession» is that the process of concrescence is not temporally ordered.

Hence, to grasp what he meant by «temporal succession,» we need to answer this question: how does the concept of temporal succession involve the concept of a division of the basic region?

Hartshorne refers too to temporal succession.

Suppose that actual occasion A has feelings U and V. Whitehead denied that such feelings can be in temporal succession.

«Causality, substance, memory, perception, temporal succession modality, are all but modulations of one principle of creative synthetic experiencing, feeding entirely upon its own prior products.

Whitehead strongly opposed those Western thinkers who ultimately denied the reality of temporal succession.

Not exact matches

The third instance of vicious spatialization is merely another form of the previous one: the belief that every temporal process consists of a dense succession of durationless instants in the same sense as a geometrical line consists of dense continuum of dimensionless points.

This means that there is a dynamism in the valuing process that can not be satisfied with any succession of temporal values or any intensification of these temporal values.

There is not a trace of any succession; there is no temporal sequence at all — except on the psychological level, in the mind of a student groping for the conclusion, not in the logical structure itself.

There is no license for drawing the further conclusion that God exists at a succession of temporal standpoints relative to each of which there is an open future.

The possibility of existing completely unchanged through a succession of temporal moments I shall dismiss as idle.

While in temporal occasions, succession does mean the fading of the occasion as it becomes a part of the past, he is arguing that the counterpart of the occasion in God has a greater unity of life than it had in the temporal world and that in God»... succession does not mean loss of immediate unison.»

The important personalistic thesis is that the (temporal) person, whenever he begins to be, is the kind of being who is never a sequence or a succession of units but a unity who can succeed himself by virtue of his ability to relate his world to himself on his own terms (within limits).

In the succession from a temporal occasion to the divine occasion, the metaphysical conditions are identical to those in the succession from one divine moment to another.

Now the topological properties of time are those concerning the relations of «before» and «after,» independent of the quantitative relations between the temporal intervals — in other words, the relations of succession.