Tradition
Actualism
Overview
philosophical view that everything there is is actual
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Not that their philosophers have admitted the concrete realizability of their scheme. On the contrary, the assertion of the absolute “Reality” of what is empirically unrealizable is a part of the scheme; the ideal of a universe of pure, cognitional objects, fixed elements in fixed relations.
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
Close in meaning to Actualism; the term itself is not named.
The oneness of the world is an almost undiscussed postulate of most metaphysics. "Reality is not merely one and self-consistent, but is a system of reciprocally determinate parts"[19]--such a statement would pass almost unnoticed as a mere truism. Yet I believe that it embodies a failure to effect thoroughly the "Copernican revolution," and that the apparent oneness of the world is merely the oneness of what is seen…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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The consequence is, that while they should fix their eye on what is present (das Gegenwärtige), every effort of their mind is called out to get hold of an object which is not in question through the whole inquiry.' ... 'The aim of the sublimest science can only be to show the actuality,--in the strictest sense the actuality, the presence, the vital existence (Daseyn)--of a God in the whole of things and in each…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Actualism is.
Philosophers who discussed Actualism
Related ideas
- American Philosophical Association
- If and only if
- Analytic philosophy
- Modal realism
- Philosophical Studies
- Intentionality
- Metaphysics
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- David Malet Armstrong
- Domain of discourse
- Sherlock Holmes
- Modal logic
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Logical consequence
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Bertrand Russell
- Moral character
- Quantifier (logic)
- Vulcan (hypothetical planet)
- Essence
- Abstract and concrete
- De dicto and de re
- Ontological commitment
- Consequentialism
Place in the tradition
Part of Existence.