Sentences with phrase «underlying substantial activity»

Ford comments, «Instead of an underlying substantial activity and three metaphysical attributes, Whitehead now has the temporal world of actual occasions with three formative elements which jointly constitute its character: creativity, the ideal entities and God (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 88).

In Science and the Modern World, we encountered four metaphysical principles: the underlying substantial activity and its three attributes — eternal objects, actual entities, and the principle of limitation.

The envisagement of the actual entities as well as of the eternal objects is now attributed to God rather than to the underlying substantial activity.

In these quotations we can see that the envisagement of the eternal objects, which was referred, in the first Lowell lectures, to the underlying substantial activity, (see earlier in this ch.)

But if we allow metaphysics at all, the introduction of a third attribute of the underlying substantial activity would have seemed a normal way to round out the system.

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The substantial activity here called the underlying and eternal activity Whitehead associates with Spinoza's «one infinite substance,» (SMW 181, 255.)

That is also the reason why Whitehead in Science and the Modern World talks about «substantial activity» and not just about «Substance»: Substance «is,» but «substantial activity» is for Whitehead nothing but «the underlying... activity of individuation» (Science 123).

«We believe that underlying inflationary pressures will gradually ease due to appreciable excess capacity, extended muted economic activity, and ongoing wage moderation amid substantial labour market slack,» he predicted.