actual occasions

Noun

plural plural-only

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:

Japanese Meaning

宇宙に存在する最も基本的で実在する事象、すなわち、厳密には物質ではなく経験を伴う現象そのもの / 全ての物質や空間を構成する根源的な単位としての現実の出来事 / ホワイトヘッドの学説において、無数の実際の事象が集合して一つのクォークを構成すると考えられる、宇宙の基本的構成要素

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According to process philosophy, the cosmos is woven from immeasurable, experiential primitives, so that even a quark and the apparent void are ultimately composed of trillions of actual occasions.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

プロセス哲学によれば、宇宙は計り知れないほどの経験的な原始要素から織り成されており、クォークや一見空虚に見える空間でさえ、究極的には何兆もの根本的な経験的実体から構成されている。

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"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.

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