Unwilling even to call this principle by the customary name, "the One," Damascius declared that men cannot adequately describe its relation to derived reality.
It may also be called "the Good" as the source of all perfections and the ultimate goal of return, for the impulse of outgoing and return that constitutes the hierarchy of derived reality comes from and leads back to the Good.
The original creative or expressive act of the One is the first great derived reality, nous (which can be only rather inadequately translated as "Intellect" or "Spirit"); from this again comes Soul, which forms, orders, and maintains in being the material universe.
His simple, almost classical vocabulary was derived from reality's quieter, homier moments.
"Unlike the cartoonish virtual worlds I had worked with for many years, the remote people and places I was seeing were clearly derived from reality".
For this satirical comedy, Theresa Rebeck's inspiration derived from reality (actual, not televised) when, in the summer of 2000, Julie Chen, a CBS News morning co-anchor, took a second job as the host of the reality show "Big Brother".
Postman Pat becomes such an overnight sensation that, at a hugely impractical cost that makes no sense whatsoever when the decline of a physical mail service and the ephemeral nature of fame derived from reality shows is taken into consideration, Pat's bosses at the postal company make an army of vaguely Terminator-esque RoboPats to replace him.
There, the FAP is deeply explained and information are given, how the model, i.e., the interference values can be derived from reality.
In this sense, the idea is simply an actual or existent mode or modification of the mind, and insofar as it is, its formal reality is derived from the formal reality of the mind.
The eternal truths derive their reality from the "Simple Essences of things" and these are the eternal divine ideas, which stand in Suarezian accidental relations to one another (71).
It is clear that pantheistic systems which start from the theistic God which they then find to be all-inclusive, or Absolute Idealist systems which derive all reality from a spiritual principle, will find it easier to attribute something like personhood to the cosmos than will those which are more naturalistically motivated.
