What may not seem so obvious, however, is our suggestion that cosmic reality is in general composed of analogous
types of occasions of experience.
Not exact matches
On a number
of occasions, I
typed in nearby addresses but instead got results in Missouri or other faraway places.
Each respondent drank different
types of wine, spirits, and beer on different
occasions and catalogued how the different
types of alcohol affected their mood and emotions.
«This is just the latest in a series
of the use
of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, notwithstanding their use on more than 50
occasions of chlorine bombs and cluster bombs and other
types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways.
If you've ever had
occasion to look into the academic research comparing different
types of returns from stocks that have different characteristics, as a class, dividend stocks tend to do better than the average stock over long periods
of time.
Just like a close friend or family member, this
type of content conveys that the brand is here to make consumers» lives easier, especially during such a momentous
occasion.
As it was mentioned earlier and on many different
occasions, the 61.8 % level
of retracement is obligatory in those kinds
of patterns and there are different
types of flat patterns and those
types depend on the length
of the reversal or the length
of the retracement.
At the same time, Whitehead seems to allow for the possibility that a society exercises a derivative
type of agency in and through its constituent
occasions:
I also believe that, in spite
of Whitehead's reluctance to concede privileged status to human
occasions of experience, the introduction
of the wide range
of conscious anticipation
of the future which humanity represents in comparison to lesser
types of existence also introduces justice as a characteristic
of the specially human aim at harmonious beauty.
He points out that if the expression had been uttered on many previous
occasions, then the present experience would be an energizing
of subjective forms
of a reiterative
type.
This means that whereas a proposition must properly conform to the nexus to which it refers independently
of the experience
of any particular
occasion, and is a logical
type, a judgment is concerned with the conformity
of components within one particular
occasion, and is an emotional
type.
Expressing concern that India was «splinter [ing] along the lines
of religious faith,» he observed that «religious faiths
of all
types have, on
occasion, been targeted by other people
of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts
of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate the nation.»
This means that as a group they felt a new
type of existence was possible for them, and in prehending this novel possibility they formed nonsocial
occasions which the person
of Jesus organized and unified.
Without the two-fold reality which the relativity principle attaches to all completed
occasions (and, more generally, to every entity
of every
type), the Category
of the Ultimate, or principle
of creativity — the most general principle presupposed by all the other categories
of Whitehead's metaphysics (PR 31)-- would be an outright contradiction.
It is that, while Laszlo centers upon patterns
of structure and relationship which are reiterated throughout the hierarchy
of entities
of the world, Whitehead focuses on a primordial
type of entity, the actual
occasion, whose basic processes are found only in its kind and not reiterated in larger arrangements such as nexus and societies.
7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single
type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming
of a not - yet - existing
occasion and the relations between existing things.
This difference should not prevent us from a favorable comparison
of two
types of subjects, viz., (1) the actual
occasion as a prehensive unification in a field
of objective data and (2) human consciousness as a unification
of an intentional field.
But in Process and Reality, Whitehead recognizes two fundamentally different
types of actual
occasions, those constituting space - time empty
of matter, and those constituting experient
occasions in the histories
of particular particles, corresponding to basic pulses or beats in the theories
of quantum physics (PR 177/269).
Ford's theory
of inclusive
occasions places
occasions within
occasions; we, however, believe that there are two
types of occasions,
occasions which constitute space - time and
occasions which are the basic constituents
of particles and, indirectly through particles,
of all
of the more complex entities.
Indeed, the very nature
of Catholic teaching has
occasioned this
type of challenge, for the church maintains that its teaching is based on the natural law, which in principle can be rationally apprehended by all human beings.
But the newspapers are full
of strolling women / falling piano -
type incidents that just would not come to pass were God to operate in the world by providing information about the world, information not otherwise available, through the subjective aims he offers to finite actual
occasions.
My goal is not adequately expressed by saying that I am to uphold an evangelical conservatism
of generically Reformed or specifically Angelican or neo-Puritan or interdenominational pietist
type, though I have been both applauded and booed on
occasion for doing all these things, and I hope under God to continue to do them.
(3) Nevertheless, it may seem that in process thought there are other
types of extended but externally undetectable entities; and this may save the day for the spacy but imperceptible
occasions of human consciousness.
In Science and the Modern World Whitehead says that «every
occasion is a synthesis
of all eternal objects under the limitation
of gradations
of types of entry» (Science and the Modern World 252).
So numerous have these studies been that scholars have on
occasion expressed doubt about the likelihood
of much
of value coming from further work
of this
type.
When the seat
of existence shifted effectively to reflective consciousness, a new
type of continuity between successive
occasions of experience arose as well as a new separation
of the individual thus constituted from all other individuals.
At this most homely and every - day
type of occasion, salvation begins to seep into the fabric
of this world.
In light
of this assumption, a somewhat detailed account
of diverse
types of prehensions by one actual
occasion of others is relevant to the question
of the possible diversity
of modes
of God's presence in man.
Though the power
of determination
of the specific content on television remains with the local station management, the FCC has on different
occasions offered suggestions on the
types of programming that should be present in a station's schedule in order for the station to fulfill the conditions
of its license.
So every
occasion is seen as the fusion
of these two
types.
(Presumably the mental aspects
of other
types of occasions might also be directly prehended, but this would be trivial.)
This
type of occasion was barely introduced near the end
of the preceding chapter.
The soul is remarkable, first, because it is a society composed
of an extraordinary
type of occasion.
Thus, just as in Whitehead's categoreal system the two first - mentioned elements, absolute concreteness and unique occurrence, are united in the concept
of a determinate, fundamental, categoreal existence (the concept
of an
occasion or actual entity), so the corresponding counter-elements, absolute abstractness and the character
of abiding existence [lmmer - Gewesen - Sein], are joined together in another concept
of an opposite categoreal
type, that
of an utterly abstract entity, which always was and always is, which Whitehead calls an eternal object.
One can conceive
of a variety
of types of interstitial
occasions (such as varying forms
of «entirely living
occasions») that might pervade the whole interstitium sort
of adjacent to or intertwined with the presiding
occasion.
And he does say that atoms and molecules are «organisms»
of a higher
type than electrons (ibid) Furthermore, he refers to molecules as enduring objects, and he speaks
of molecular as well as
of electronic and protonic actual
occasions (PR 114, 123, 124, 139, 141).
He had in view at that point in his writing two
types of occasions: those socially organized and those not organized into societies.
Since electronic
occasions are presumably not in phase with each other or with other
types of actual
occasions, still further complications are involved.
The human body is a society
of this
type because the actual
occasions of each part
of the body are experienced as being spatially connected in the formation
of a single body.
Therefore, he believes that he has a logically impregnable position in affirming that the zero case
of mind would also be the zero case
of reality.26 Hence, either we must talk about matter in terms
of the infinitely flexible «psychic variables»
of human mental experience, or we can not talk intelligibly about it at all.27 Thus Hartshorne feels justified in the following caustic comment upon Santayana's defense
of materialism:» «Matter» is the asylum
of ignorance, pure and simple, whose only useful function is to postpone for a more convenient
occasion the specification
of the
type of psychic reality required in the given case.
According to the predominance
of one or the other
type of occasion, the society will be more or less corpuscular.
Whitehead does not deduce the existence
of more special
types of societies from the general idea
of occasions and societies.
This pliant narrative process suggests a
type of storytelling that occurs in a variety
of modes and
occasions.
In all three
types there is the religious experience
of knowing that life comes from God, 13
of the festive
occasion in sharing food, and
of sharing food with the hungry.
In learning to
type, successive
occasions of my soul probably introduced novel «mid-course corrections» thousands or millions
of times; but the only way I can discover the typical condition
of DNA in my spermatozoa is by having a child.
My aim to strike an «e» — or even to
type a complete word «the» triggers a burst
of physical responses in my brain cells, which in turn mediate these «amplified» feelings to adjacent
occasions in other brain cells and in neurons.
It is always a balance
of freedoms (and I'm not suggesting that is easy or simple) and freedom from descrimination does trump other
types on
occasion.
In the «organic» theory, (i) there is only one
type of temporal actual entity; (ii) each such actual entity is extensive; (iii) from the standpoint
of any one actual entity, the «given» actual world is a nexus
of actual entities, transforming the potentiality
of the extensive scheme into a plenum
of actual
occasions; (iv) in this plenum, motion can not be significantly attributed to any actual
occasion; (v) the plenum is continuous in respect to the potentiality from which it arises, but each actual entity is atomic; (vi) the term «actual
occasion» is used synonymously with «actual entity»; but chiefly when its character
of extensiveness has some direct relevance to the discussion, either extensiveness in the form
of temporal extensiveness, that is to say «duration», or extensiveness in the form
of spatial extension, or in the more complete signification
of spatio - temporal extensiveness.
The process in God can not be conceived
of as a process between
occasions (which is a transition or «external supersession»), nor can it be conceived
of as that
type of process which occurs within an
occasion as an «internal supersession»
of phases
of indeterminateness finishing in a final satisfaction («concrescence» in the usual sense
of the word).
Descartes does not explicitly frame the definition
of actuality in terms
of the ontological principle... that actual
occasions form the ground from which all other
types of existence are derivative and abstracted; but he practically formulates an equivalent in subject - predicate phraseology.