Clearly he retained throughout his life the sense that
the ultimate fact is the process itself of which God, the eternal objects, and the temporal occasions are all explanatory.
We must remember that Whitehead is not a metaphysician seeking to describe
the ultimate facts of existence (so WM 17 - 20), but a realist philosopher of science remarking on uniquely human matters such as perception and freedom.
Again,» [t]
he ultimate fact in the constitution of an actual entity which suggests this term [«potential difference»] is the objective lure for feeling.»
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The ultimate facts of immediate actual experience,» then, «are actual entities, prehensions, and nexus.4 All else is, for our experience, derivative abstraction.»
Enlarge your view of the final fact which is permanent amid change...
This ultimate fact includes in its appetitive vision all possibilities of order, possibilities at once incompatible and unlimited with a fecundity beyond imagination.
Part of the appeal of Whitehead's metaphysics lies in this, that through his conception of pulses of experience as
the ultimate facts, he invests the passage of time with life and motion, with pathos, and with a majesty rivaled in no other philosophy of change, and in few eternalistic ones.
Physical decline gradually shatters the illusion of perpetual youth and faces one with
the ultimate fact that all of us are mortal.
This is
the ultimate fact of «concrescence» itself.
Never using any of Whitehead's own language, which he, like many others, felt was excessively original, he nevertheless stressed that «Events constitute
the ultimate fact beyond which there can be nothing else» (JR 10:139).
Then when
that ultimate fact fails to change anothers opinion or worst... causes another fact to be launched.
In fact, fireside may just be the ultimate
«At bottom,» the motion continues, «it appears that Mr. Clark will be called to testify to
the ultimate fact at issue in this case: whether Defendant poisoned cats... However, Defendant has not proffered that Mr. Clark has any specialized knowledge of or experience regarding Defendant's behavior.»
An appellate tribunal is able to correct legal errors, «arbitrary and capricious» decisions, clear violations of statutory law, violations of due process, and erroneous findings of
ultimate fact.
When hiring an experienced attorney in a wrongful death claim, the attorney will evaluate the merits, or
ultimate facts, of the case.
The decision was based, in part, upon the fact that «New York practice does not allow experts to offer an opinion on
the ultimate fact as to whether sexual abuse has occurred.