Sentences with phrase «unrealized potentiality»

Endurance is an instance of unrealized potentiality.

Because to be subject to change is to be open to previously unrealized potentiality, it is obviously the case that «it is impossible for God to change in any way.»

From the thesis that God could have created some other world it follows that there are unrealized potentialities for God, namely, His creating worlds He does not create.10 Thomas» distinction between active and passive potentialities11 does nothing to invalidate this point.

Of course unrealized potentialities also follow from the first argument, and contingency from the second; for these notions are strictly correlative.

The final member of this group, simplicity, falls as well, since its main support was the absence of any unrealized potentialities in God.

I can not see that it is.12 Why should we suppose that a deity with unrealized potentialities and contingent properties, and qualified by His cognitive relations with contingent objects, must be in relation with some world of entities other than Himself?

The alternative is a static monistic universe, without unrealized potentialities.»

Moreover, sensa are declared to have some form of realization that differs from that of patterns: «But the realization of a sensum in its ideal shallowness of intensity, with zero width, does not require any other eternal object, other than its intrinsic apparatus of individual and relational essence; it can remain just itself, with its unrealized potentialities for patterned contrasts» (PR 115 / 176).

In its individual essence, Whitehead claims that a sensum «can remain just itself, with its unrealized potentialities for patterned contrasts» (PR 115 / 176, my italics).

Or regret for the unrealized potentialities of modernism to alter our world?

Not exact matches

Accordingly the general potentiality of the universe must be somewhere; since it retains its proximate relevance to actual entities for which it is unrealized... - This «somewhere» is the non-temporal actual entity.

Accordingly the general potentiality of the universe must be somewhere; since it retains its proximate relevance to actual entities for which it is unrealized.

Biernoff has labeled the binoculars a «time machine,» perhaps to suggest, like Moore's Map, the double bind of imagining both an unrealized utopia and dystopia in two future potentialities.