The Messiness of Actual Existence

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (0) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene EGNELL
Keyword(s):  
Actual Existence

Ritual Impurity in Tannaitic Literature: Two Opposing Perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-103
Author(s):  
Vered Noam
Keyword(s):  
Entire System ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Natural Substance ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Human Awareness

This paper examines the rabbinic concept of impurity in terms of the essence of the reality that this term implies. Did the Rabbis consider impurity to be a force of nature, or rather an abstract formalistic structure devoid of any actual existence? A review of rabbinic sources regarding corpse impurity reveals that the essential structures of tannaitic halakhah are grounded in a natural, immanent perception of impurity, which gave rise to an entire system, intricate and coherent, of “natural laws of impurity.” Layered onto this system, as a secondary stratum of sorts comprising exceptions and “addenda,” is a more subtle halakhic tapestry woven from a diametrically opposed perception. This view subjects the concept of impurity to human awareness and intention, severing it from reality and, in so doing, also stripping it of its “natural” substance.

Percepção e Linguagem

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Teixeira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Activity ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Human Enterprise

Symbolism is a basic synthetic activity required by human enterprise in order to be able to produce an occasion of actual existence. Whitehead regards perception as the most frequent and fundamental kind of symbolism. Language is another essential sort of symbolism. Immediacy and abstraction are two intersecting phases in the process of symbolism; we need both for the occasions of perception and the emergence of language. Whitehead unites various kinds of experience under the notion of symbolism and enhances the founding roles of perception and language. His doctrine is an outstanding insight into the wholeness of reality.

scholarly journals Francisco suárez on the object of the metaphysics

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Predrag Milidrag
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Francisco Suarez ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Real Essence ◽  
Objective Concept

For Su?rez, the object of the metaphysics is being insofar as it is real being (ens reale). In order to explain this, the author analyzes Su?rez?s notions of formal and objective concept (conceptus formalis, conceptus objectivus). Su?rez finds that the primary feature of the objective concept of being is its unity; nevertheless that does not imply the univocal concept of being because the objective concept of being is applied on its instances on diverse ways. When considering what is being (ens), Su?rez makes the difference between being taken as a noun and being taken as a participle. The later one signifies everything actually existing; being as a noun signifies everything which have the real essence (essentia realis), with actual existence or without it. The real essence he defines as something that is not repugnant to actual existence and which is not a figment of mind. The objective concept of being is a result of precisive abstraction and encompass all real essences, actual as well as non-actual. As such, for Su?rez, it is the object of the metaphysics as a science.

The Possibility of Error

2005 ◽  
pp. 321-354
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Logical Possibility ◽  
Absolute Truth ◽  
Actual Existence

This chapter considers the possibility of error, the actual existence of those conditions that make error possible. It elaborates the notion that the conditions that determine the logical possibility of error must themselves be absolute truth. However, readers are warned that the path to be travelled is very thorny and stony. It is a path of difficult philosophical investigation. Nobody ought to follow it who does not desire to. The reader is urged to skip the whole of this chapter unless he wants to find even more of dullness than the rest of this sleepy book has discovered to him. For the author, the arid way would seem hard, were it not for the precious prize at the end of it.

Medieval Explanations and Interpretations of the Dictum that ‘Nature Abhors a Vacuum’

Traditio ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 327-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Grant
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
The World

Of the numerous real and hypothetical experimental illustrations invoked against the existence of natural and artifical vacua during the Latin Middle Ages, two may be singled out as especially prominent: the clepsydra and the separation of two surfaces. The descriptions and explanations of these two popular experiments will serve as the focus of this paper, since they strikingly exemplify the kinds of arguments and the often ad hoc character of the medieval defense of Aristotle's contention that nature is a material plenum. Medieval authors, with perhaps one exception, denied the actual existence in the world of separate, continuously extended vacua, however small or large.

scholarly journals Die soeke na die betekenis van Q: Inleidende opmerkings oor die geskiedenis van Q-navorsing

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Nel
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Source Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sayings Of Jesus

In search of the meaning of Q: Introductory remarks on the history of Q researchAccording to the two source-theory, large parts of the material in Matthew and Luke which show conformity and which are not found in Mark, point to the existence of a source which comprises sayings of Jesus and reminds one of the typical wisdom material in the Old Testament. In this paper a few introductory remarks are made on the history of the research done in respect of this source, known as Q. The questions regarding the actual existence and origin of Q are briefly discussed in the first part of the paper. Four aspects of Q research are addressed: Q is a document which shows its own integrity; the distinction between tradition and redaction in Q; stratifications and phases in the development of Q; the wisdom character of the material in Q.

The Peasant's Pre-Emption Right: An Abortive Reform of the Macedonian Emperors

1947 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ostrogorsky
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Internal Development ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Power

The struggle which the Byzantine government had to wage in the tenth century to protect small freeholders against the landed aristocracy represents a most interesting and important phase in the internal development of the Byzantine State. It can be said without exaggeration that the issue of the struggle determined the very fate of the Empire. The history of this stubborn, dramatic conflict has been outlined more than once. My intention is not to narrate it again, but to illustrate by a few concrete examples the causes which prevented the Byzantine government from effectively safeguarding the smallholder.The system of land tenure by free peasant proprietors and stratiotai—soldiers settled in the themes—formed the mainstay of the Byzantine Empire from the time of its recovery in the seventh century, as well as its principal source of both internal strength and external power. Naturally, the imperial government intervened in favour of the smallholder when it became clear that peasant and stratiote property was being rapidly absorbed by big landholders, with their former owners becoming serfs on the estates of lay landowners and monasteries. In protecting the smallholder against the encroachments of the feudal landed aristocracy, the State endeavoured to safeguard its soldiers and its best taxpayers, as well as its actual existence; for the development of the centrifugal forces of feudalism constituted a menace to the centralized and autocratic power of the Byzantine emperors.

The Lowland Maya “Protoclassic”

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Brady ◽  
Joseph W. Ball ◽  
Ronald L. Bishop ◽  
Duncan C. Pring ◽  
Norman Hammond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Maya Archaeology ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Lowland Maya

AbstractThe term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and usage. This paper reviews the history and use of the term and presents a formal redefinition of the Protoclassic as a ceramic stage based explicitly and exclusively on ceramic criteria. Some suggestions regarding future use of the term also are offered. The paper further addresses and resolves a number of persisting questions regarding Protoclassic orange wares, including problems concerning the actual existence of the “Aguacate ceramic group.” and the relationships of Aguacate-group pottery to other emergent orange wares of the terminal Late Preclassic and initial Early Classic periods. The nature and significance of the “Holmul I Style,” the “Floral Park Ceramic Sphere.” and the relationships of the two to each other and the larger, redefined “protoclassic” ceramic stage also are examined. A spatial distribution for protoclassic ceramics considerably expanded over what has ever been reported previously is described, and Chronometric data are presented to support a revised chronology for the protoclassic ceramic stage. Finally, ceramic data are offered that suggest a real subdivision of the protoclassic ceramic stage into an early, emergent facet originating entirely within Late Preclassic lowland traditions, and a later, fully “Classic” facet corresponding to the early Tzakol (Tzakol 1) ceramic horizon.

scholarly journals Rat heart fatty acid-binding protein. Evidence that supports the amino acid sequence predicted from the cDNA

1989 ◽  
Vol 260 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Kimura ◽  
M Hitomi ◽  
S Odani ◽  
T Koide ◽  
M Arakawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Molecular Species ◽  
Rat Heart ◽  
Fatty Acid Binding Protein ◽  
Binding Protein ◽  
Fatty Acid Binding ◽  
Acid Binding Protein ◽  
Actual Existence

The amino acid sequence of rat heart fatty acid-binding protein was re-examined by analysing the tryptic and the chymotryptic peptides, since some discrepancies have been reported between the sequences determined by protein analyses and that deduced from the cDNA analyses. Our result completely agreed with the amino acid sequence predicted from the cDNA analyses, providing evidence for the actual existence of the molecular species predicted from the cDNA.

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