Below you will find example sentences with "actual entities". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Actual Entities in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: actual
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 20.8 words

Words in this phrase

actual entities

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • actual can mean: relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical Frequent word
  • entities can mean: plural of entity Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

actual entities are clashing 1× alike qua actual entities with a 1× and multiple actual entities 1× are not actual entities 1× atomicity the actual entities the occasions 1× by existing actual entities 1× choosing the actual entities 1× collections of actual entities as nexuses 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

abstractions are themselves 1× actual entities are 1× all abstractions have 1× an actual entity 1× another summary referring 1× atomicity the actual 1×

Common sentence endings:

other actual entities 3× not actual entities 2× a single exception 1× are actual entities 1× being actual entities 1× elements of reality 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

whitehead 9× experience 7× abstractions 6× occasions 5× way 3× world 3× entity 3× sense 3× makes 2× kind 2× defining 2× ontology 2×

Related phrases

actual results actual bodily foreign entities occasioning actual actual city actual entity

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around actual:

actual bodily 10× occasioning actual 6× actual city 4× actual entity 3×

Just before it in the phrase index:

actual city actual bodily actress emma actors guild activity requirement activists say

Just after it in the phrase index:

actual entity actual results actually consists actually pretty adam cole adam smith

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

actual results actual bodily actual city actual entity

Same ending:

foreign entities

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "actual entities" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 20.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as actual entities are clashing, alike qua actual entities with a, whitehead, experience and abstractions stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with actual results, actual bodily, foreign entities, actual bodily, occasioning actual and actual city, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with actual entities

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Abstractions are themselves not actual entities. (6 words)

In some sense, God is prehended by existing actual entities. (10 words)

Actual entities are clashing with each other and form other actual entities. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

That some occasions of experience involve experience in the mode of presentational immediacy is the one and only reason why Whitehead makes the occasions of experience his actual entities; for the actual entities must be of the ultimately general kind. (40 words)

Creativity is a term coined by Whitehead to show a power in the world that allows the presence of an actual entity, a new actual entity, and multiple actual entities. (30 words)

Atomicity The actual entities, the occasions of experience, are logically atomic in the sense that an occasion of experience cannot be cut and separated into two other occasions of experience. (30 words)

Example sentences (20)

Actual entities are clashing with each other and form other actual entities.

That some occasions of experience involve experience in the mode of presentational immediacy is the one and only reason why Whitehead makes the occasions of experience his actual entities; for the actual entities must be of the ultimately general kind.

Whitehead chooses a way of defining the actual entities that makes them all alike, qua actual entities, with a single exception.

Whitehead's actual entities For Whitehead's ontology of processes as defining the world, the actual entities exist as the only fundamental elements of reality.

Whitehead's ontology refers to importantly structured collections of actual entities as nexuses of actual entities.

Creativity is a term coined by Whitehead to show a power in the world that allows the presence of an actual entity, a new actual entity, and multiple actual entities.

They are the only entities that can be real but are not actual entities.

Whitehead's abstractions Whitehead's abstractions are conceptual entities that are abstracted from or derived from and founded upon his actual entities.

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An actual entity is how something is happening, and how its happening is related to other actual entities.

Abstractions are themselves not actual entities.

All abstractions have logical or conceptual rather than efficacious existence; their lack of definite time does not make them unreal if they refer to actual entities.

Another summary, referring to its causal linkage to other actual entities, is that it is "all window", in contrast with Leibniz' windowless monads.

Atomicity The actual entities, the occasions of experience, are logically atomic in the sense that an occasion of experience cannot be cut and separated into two other occasions of experience.

In some sense, God is prehended by existing actual entities.

Likewise it is the concretion or realization of potentialities of other actual entities which are its partial causes.

The actually existing world is a multiplicity of actual entities overlapping one another.

The brain is part of the body, both being abstractions of a kind known as persistent physical objects, neither being actual entities.

This is the way in which God's synthesis becomes a sense-datum for other actual entities.

We may say that the brain has a material and a mental aspect, all three being abstractions from their indefinitely many constitutive occasions of experience, which are actual entities.

Whitehead's most far-reaching and profound and radical contribution to metaphysics is his invention of a better way of choosing the actual entities.

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