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- noun Plural form of
prehension .
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Examples
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Because the divine is indeterminate, it cannot be an object of an actual entity's prehensions.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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The consequent nature is God's prehensions of the actual processes of the world.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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We have also seen that process theism conceives God as being really related to the world through prehensions or feelings.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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We have already seen that in Whitehead's metaphysics, the way that one actual entity influences another is by means of prehensions.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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Actual entities, by virtue of their prehensions of one another, are internally related to their predecessors and externally related to their successors.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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For Whitehead, everything in the world is a “concrescence of prehensions,” prehensions being the grasping or feeling of one thing by another in their on-going relations of becoming (1997, 47).
Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism Sullivan, Shannon 2007
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As a superjective unity, the subjective form of God's physical and conceptual feelings would then be accessible by physical and hybrid physical prehensions analogous to the experience of Supermind as discolsive of the Divine.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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As a superjective unity, the subjective form of God's physical and conceptual feelings would then be accessible by physical and hybrid physical prehensions analogous to the experience of Supermind as discolsive of the Divine.
A. N. Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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It has to do with the way that an entity's prehensions are always partial (or negative as well as positive), and that this bundle of prehensions is only unified (and therefore only generated) by a process of
Warren Ellis 2010
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It has to do with the way that an entity's prehensions are always partial (or negative as well as positive), and that this bundle of prehensions is only unified (and therefore only generated) by a process of
Warren Ellis 2010
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