Sentence examples for concrete actuality from inspiring English sources
Of course, as Kierkegaard insists, concrete actuality is also important, and if possibility remains unfulfilled then existence will contract again.
In one case, a person lacks concrete actuality: he loses himself in imagining, reflecting on and dreaming about different possibilities, without actualising any of them.
This means that, as other philosophers have pointed out, there is no "God's eye view," no actual infinite (Aquinas's "actus purus"); the notion of infinity pertains only to abstract potentiality, whereas concrete actuality is incurably finite.
But Kierkegaard's point is that human existence is not confined to concrete, factual actuality, but opens out onto the dimension of possibility.
The prime innovation in this regard was Dai Zhen's (1724 1777) emphasis on the concept of the "exhaustive comprehension of concrete facts (actualities) (jinqi shi 盡其實)" pertaining to the reality we seek to comprehend (Xia 1996b: 41996b
So much time, energy, and anger are directed at something we think is concrete when, in actuality, we are shouting into the dark.
However, the discourses of the philosophers of the Wei Jin era (265 420) also began to investigate the structure of meaning in a way that was no longer limited to the sphere of the concrete, existing, objective, external actuality (Tang 1955: 68).
I call it "apparent" pancreatic cancer, because I've been advised not to even give it the concrete status of full actuality if I intend to heal.
Existence, says Hartshorne, is abstract compared to actuality, which is the concrete.
Creativity as concrete, however, signifies a dynamism which is the very actuality of things, their act of being there at all.
