Sentences with phrase «unchanging entity»

To him, as to many before him, the cosmos was a static, unchanging entity.

Wenger is wenger (an unchanging entity)....

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It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism, that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice.

It is not readily apparent how a completed, unchanging evaluation of possibility can be or even account for «an ideal peculiar to each particular actual entity» (PR 128) contingently rising in the temporal process.

Whitehead's rejection ofthat position was emphatic: «It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned» (PR 29 / 44).

Those who take this view would say, for example, that it is absurd to speak of «human nature» as if it were an entity that could be described in categories of substance, if by substance we mean immutable and unchanging thing.

That phenomena are reducible to fundamental particles and laws describing the behaviour of particles, or more generally to any static (i.e. unchanging) entities, whether separate events in space - time, quantum states, or static entities of some other nature.

Perhaps surprisingly, some of the publishing entities that at first sight might look the most dull and unchanging, appear, in contrast to some of the publishers, to be quite dynamic.