Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

actual occasions

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: ac-tu-al oc-ca-sions
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The final real things in the universe, that are "experiential" in nature rather than strictly material. The most basic thing or construct in the universe. Some Whitehead scholars would hold that trillions of Actual Occasions compose one quark. Actual occasions make up everything, even empty space

Example Sentences

""Actual entities--also termed Actual Occasions--are the final real things of which the world is made up. There is no going behind actual entities to find anything more real. ...The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience, complex and interdependent." Whitehead, A.N., Process and Reality: an essay in Cosmology, ed. by Griffin, D. and Sherburne, D., New York: The Free Press, 1978."

Etymology

Coined by Alfred North Whitehead.

Questions

What does actual occasions mean?: The final real things in the universe, that are "experiential" in nature rather than strictly material. The most basic thing or construct in the universe. Some Whitehead scholars would hold that trillions of Actual Occasions compose one quark. Actual occasions make up everything, even empty space
Where does actual occasions come from?: Coined by Alfred North Whitehead.

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