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	Topics — Actualism
		Actualism is firmly based on what is actual, factual, physical, sensate and sensible as opposed to ethereal, imaginary, affective, spirit-ual and based on ancient wisdom and tradition.
		And all this is actual, sensate — as evidenced by the physical senses — not merely cerebral or affective.
		Actualism is about unlearning of all of your social and instinctual programming, the very programming that serves to incarcerate you within the human condition.
	www.actualfreedom.com.au /library/topics/actualism.htm (734 words)

	An Actual Freedom From The Human Condition
		Actual freedom is a tried and tested way of being happy and harmless in the world as it actually is...
		The journey into the institutionalised insanity of Spiritual Enlightenment and the emergence of actual freedom is clearly described in unambiguous terms.
		The publisher, The Actual Freedom Trust, and the authors, expressly disclaim all liability to any person in respect of anything and of the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done by any such person in reliance, whether whole or partial, upon the whole or any part of the contents.
	www.actualfreedom.com.au (898 words)

	Actualism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In contemporary Analytic philosophy, actualism is a position on the ontological status of possible worlds; the actualist holds that only the actual world and its inhabitants can properly be said to exist.
		Or, more precisely, the possibilist holds that possible worlds other than the actual world exist and that what it means to say that other possible worlds exist cannot be reduced to, or analyzed in terms of, the existence of anything in the actual world.
		Here, the "possible world" which is said to be actual is actual in virtue of that state of affairs obtaining in the world around us.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Actualism (559 words)

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		Actualism is the view according to which all that exists is actual.
		One may think that a necessary consequence of adopting the view of actualism is embarking on the reduction or on a paraphrase of possible and other kind of non-actual objects to whatever is merely actual.
		As the blobject is spatio temporal, it is actual.
	www2.arnes.si /~supmpotr/actual.htm (4144 words)

	An Essentialist Theory of Modalities
		The actualist believes that possible worlds are constructed of actually existing objects, such as obtainable states of affairs or instantiable properties.
		Actualism loses much of the explanatory power of realism, because it is committed to a modal concept, either instantiability or obtainability, that is primitive and cannot be explained.
		The only successful ground for modal facts is in the properties of actually existing objects, specifically their essential and non-essential properties.
	www.ou.edu /cas/ouphil/students/randy/abstract.htm (1544 words)

	THE CONCEPTUALIST ARGUMENT FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE by Quentin Smith
		According to actualism, possibilities are propositions, and according to conceptualism, propositions are effects of mental causes.
		Unless this premise is itself based on actualism (i.e., on the theory that a possibility is a proposition and that every possible world is a conjunction of propositions), then some additional argument is needed to show that propositions exist in every possible world.
		The actual world should not be confused with the universe, the aggregate of all (created) concrete objects, inclusive of all organisms, matter, energy, and space-time positions.
	www.qsmithwmu.com /the_conceptualist_argument.htm (5023 words)

	CD200: Uniformitarianism
		The prevailing view in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was that the earth had been created by supernatural means and had been shaped by several catastrophes, such as worldwide floods.
		For example, in the later twentieth century, J. Harlan Bretz showed that the Scablands in eastern Washington formed from a large flood when a glacial lake broke through an ice dam; and Luis Alvarez proposed that an asteroid impact was responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
		Actualism (modern uniformitarianism) states that the geologic record is the product of both slow, gradual processes (such as glacial erosion) and natural catastrophes (such as volcanic eruptions and landslides).
	www.talkorigins.org /indexcc/CD/CD200.html (322 words)

	actualism
		A typical example would be the presence in sediment of fossilized remains of an organism known to be indicative of saline water depths of say 50 to 150 feet [e.
		The normal conclusion using the Law of Actualism is that the sediment containing the fossil was deposited in water depth of around 100 feet.
		Actualism is not only applicable to understanding the physical universe but can be applied to examining changes in social conditions to extract those aspects of society that are persistent or ubiquitous characteristics.
	www.geol.lsu.edu /Faculty/Hart/NOTES/law_actual.htm (943 words)

	Actualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Actualism therefore stands in stark contrast to possibilism, which, as we've seen, takes the things there are to include possible but non-actual objects.
		Actualism, therefore, can be thought of as the metaphysical theory that attempts to account for the truth of claims like ‘It is possible that there are Aliens’ without appealing to any nonactual objects whatsoever.
		Serious Actualism is the thesis that it is not possible for an object to have a property without existing, i.e., that if an object exemplifies a property at a world, it exists at that world.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/actualism (14042 words)

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		There are, we believe, compelling arguments for actualism and against possibilism (the doctrine that there truly exist individuals that are not actual), but this is not the place to give them. Readers in doubt about actualism may take our argument conditionally: if actualism is correct, so is ante rem realism.
		Indeed, on that theory, it is not possible that there could exist even one object that is not actual that is named by some actual name. According to Kripke, names are rigid designators; that is, in every possible situation in which a name n refers at all it always refers to the same thing.
		If in our actual situation the indicated propositions already exist, it would be odd in the extreme if in other logically possible situations analogous trans-modal propositions did not exist as well.
	ucsu.colorado.edu /~bsid/ftp/Bealer_Universals.doc (7980 words)

	Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft \| Research \| Departments \| Marine Science \| actualism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The modern foundation of actualism as a geoscientific method, however, was laid by FÜCHSEL (1761), a medical practitioner, with the publication of the book “History of the land and the sea, as inferred from the history of Thuringia through the description of its mountains” (loosely translated by the author).
		The main works of VON HOFF and LYELL, in which actualism plays a major role, were published almost at the same time (the former from 1922-1834, the latter in 1827).
		Clearly, the modern concept of actualism must not be confused with uniformitarianism of earlier times, much as modern event stratigraphy does not prove the existence of catastrophism.
	www.senckenberg.de /root/index.php?page_id=3315 (1261 words)

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		For presentism, 'exists' in its sole primitive sense is a one-place predicate equivalent to 'actually exists now', and the presentist's primitive quantifiers range only over things that actually exist now.
		Thus, presentism claims that the two‑place propositional function éx exists at tù, where t is a time, is not primitive but is understood as meaning that éx exists (now)ù is included in some temporal aspect of the actual world, where the reference to a non-present moment is to be explained away.
		Thus, both actualism and presentism are reductive views; actualism must explain the notion of a non-actual world in terms of what is actual and presentism must explain the notion of a non-present time in terms of the present moment.
	www.missouri.edu /~kvanvigj/papers/adamsonactualismandpresentism.htm (3577 words)

	Actualism
		Using ancient techniques in a modern formulation, Actualism works with inner "light-fire" energy tools and techniques to bring about the releasing of one's potential for healing self and others, for creative inspiration and expression, and for problem-solving in many areas of life.
		When Actualism sessions are taught in person, this technique precedes each lesson, including the introductory session, to enhance the experience of life-energy.
		The Upper Room is a source point for the Radiant Awareness of your Actual Self, also known as your "Higher Self" or the "Being of Light" that you actually are.
	www.lycaeum.org /altered/meditat/light.htm (2550 words)

	ThothWeb - ACTUALISM, Meditation and Beyond
		Actualism is a step-by-step process of enhancing and accelerating spiritual growth and enlightenment.
		Using ancient techniques in a modern formulation, Actualism works with inner "light-fire" energy tools and techniques to bring about the releasing of one's potential for healing self and others, for creative inspiration and expression, and for problem-solving in many areas of life.
		When Actualism sessions are taught in person, this technique precedes each lesson, including the introductory session, to enhance the experience of life-energy.
	www.thothweb.com /content-133.html (3065 words)

	Actualism Versus Outdated Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Some YECs actually promote the logical absurdity that because the Falls are less than 10,000 years old, the entire Earth must be too (Wysong, 1981, p.
		Modern uniformitarianism or actualism states that the Earth's geologic record is a product of both slow and gradual processes AND NATURAL catastrophes such as ancient earthquakes, hurricanes and meteorite impacts.
		Based on supernovae remnants and the properties of radionuclides (Dalrymple, 1991, chapters 6 and 8) actualism simply recognizes that the laws of chemistry and physics (thermodynamics, gravity, radioactive decay, etc.) have not changed, at least not during the Earth's history.
	home.austarnet.com.au /stear/henke_niagara_falls.htm (1767 words)

	Empiricism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Actualism is a principle upon which realists and antirealists could agree.
		The counterfactual possibility that Jupiter's moons could be observed, while the virus could not, is irrelevant to the reliability of our conclusions in the two cases.
		However, the difference between 'observed' and 'unobserved' is relevant according to actualism.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /forster/220/Notes14.html (1479 words)

	Meditation and Beyond
		Actualism is a step-by-step process of enhancing and accelerating spiritual growth
		When Actualism sessions are taught in person, this technique precedes each lesson, including the introductory session, to enhance the experience of life-energy.
		The Upper Room is a source point for the Radiant Awareness of your Actual Self, also known as your "Higher Self" or the "Being of Light" that you actually are.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/meditation/mbey.htm (2809 words)

	Reina Hayaki: Curriculum Vitae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It has been suggested that quantified modal logic is incompatible with actualism, the thesis that the only objects that exist are actual ones.
		(I do not actually have a brother at all.) The usual semantics for QML requires us to identify the brother of mine who is an accountant with the brother of mine who is a concert pianist.
		I argue that the traditional semantics for QML is indeed incompatible with actualism, and propose an actualistically acceptable (AA) semantics that takes modality as primitive and stipulates nested worlds to account for iterated modality.
	www.unl.edu /philosop/people/faculty/hayaki/HayakiCV2006_02.htm (518 words)

	Spiritual Development UK
		Beyond those physical benefits, if practiced often, meditation can lead to an overall increased clarity of mind, emotional well-being, and sensory delight in life--in essence, more of the joy of living.
		Actualism is a step-by-step process of enhancing and accelerating spiritual growth and enlightenment.
		Using ancient techniques in a modern formulation, Actualism works with inner "light-fire" energy tools and techniques to bring about the releasing of one's potential for healing self and others, for creative inspiration and expression, and for problem-solving in many areas of life.
	www.msnusers.com /SpiritualDevelopmentUK/meditation2.msnw (1094 words)

	Uniformitarianism: World of Earth Science
		In large part, the presence of Lyell's strongly defended gradualism succeeded in freeing nineteenth century geology from the firm grasp of Biblical preconception and allowed it to develop as a free, legitimate science.
		He said: "Amid all the revolutions of the globe the economy of Nature has been uniform, and her laws are the only thing that have resisted the general movement.
		Most scientists argue that uniformitarianism should be kept in its proper historical perspective in the future, and that a more specific term like actualism might supplant uniformitarianism in places where the word is meant to convey strictly the modern concept of uniformity of causes.
	science.enotes.com /earth-science/uniformitarianism (851 words)

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		Still, James Tomberlin is right - in "Naturalism, Actualism, and Ontology" (###) - to think that I adhere to actualism.
		The best I can say is that, given what I have argued about actualism in general, we must seek a semantics for the deontic sentences that complies with actualism.
		Actualism Four methodological proposals are central to the argument in Coming.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /Philosophy/people/devitt/PUTTIN1.DOC (1606 words)

	Problems with the Actualist Accounts: A Supplement to Actualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2004 ...
		There need be no "intended" possible worlds model -- one actually containing possible worlds of some ilk -- in order for us to employ the apparatus to define and use the notions above.
		For, in that case, new actualism shows that the standard definition of actualism has not gotten to the heart of the matter -- that actualism is not best characterized as the thesis that everything there is, in any sense, is actual.
		The new actualist does indeed maintain a single sense of being; but in place of the possibilist's division of being into two modes -- actuality and contingent nonactuality -- the new actualist substitutes a division of actuality into two modes: concreteness and contingent nonconcreteness.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/spr2004/entries/actualism/actualist-problems.html (3462 words)

	Uniformitarianism (science) Summary
		Most scientists argue that uniformitarianism should be kept in its proper historical perspective in the future, and that a more specific term like actualism might supplant uniformitarianism in places where the word is meant to convey strictly the modern concept of uniformity of causes.
		Uniformitarianism is a generalisation of the principle of actualism, which states that present day-processes (astronomical, geological, paleontological,...) can be used to interpret past patterns.
		The principle of actualism is the cornerstone of paleoecology.
	www.bookrags.com /Uniformitarianism_(science) (2194 words)

	Biography of Canadian artist Rob Elphinstone - Actualism Art .
		Every one of his art pieces reflects the premise that creative art stems from what is truly evident in nature rather than the shadow that can be photographed.
		The term "Actualism art" is used to distinguish this art form from the emotionally based "expressionism" trend.
		Some Actualism art works from the belief that the only true art is the object itself.
	members.shaw.ca /robelphinstone/finearts/biography.htm (735 words)

	The Web Site for Critical Realism \| Strong and Weak Actualism
		Strong actualism is the view that complete state descriptions supporting causal laws exist, and are universal, but are not known.
		Weak actualism is the view that causal laws only apply in closed systems, so laws are known but not universal (SRHE 28-9).
		Weak actualism is an empiricism that can be achieved in practice, but it leaves phenomena in open systems unexplained.
	www.raggedclaws.com /criticalrealism/index.php?sitesig=WSCR&page=WSCR_060_WSCR_Glossary&subpage=WSCR_225_Strong_and_Weak_Actualism (143 words)

	IngentaConnect Actualism and Incarnation: The High Christology of Friedrich Schl...
		IngentaConnect Actualism and Incarnation: The High Christology of Friedrich Schl...
		Defining Schleiermacher's Christology simply as `low' is inadequate, and based on a neglect of the crucial role that actualism plays in his theology.
		By looking at how Schleiermacher's Christology proceeds in both `vertical' and `horizontal' directions, it shows that through correctly understanding Schleiermacher's actualism we are able to see that, for Schleiermacher, Christ is the one who reproduces God's pure act of love through his own God-consciousness.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bpl/ijst/2006/00000008/00000003/art00006 (250 words)

	Adams on Actualism and Presentism
		At the time of t, various future histories are metaphysically possible, including what we can infer to be the actual future history b, d, e, which is a continuation of the history a, b.
		It is a necessary truth that the actual future is a continuation of the actual past, but it does not follow that every possible future is a continuation of the actual past.
		If tense is an objective feature of reality, as Adams and the presentist agree, then there are tensed facts which are every bit as much a part of any actual world's history as are entities.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/adamson.html (1648 words)

	Actualism: Light Meditation, Enter The Corridor Of Growth
		Feel free to copy this document and pass it on, but any commercial use requires express permission of the author.
		Actualism is a step-by-step process of enhancing and accelerating spiritual growth and enlightenment.
		the Radiant Awareness of your Actual Self, also known as your "Higher Self" or the "Being of Light" that you actually are.
	www.jaguarmoon.org /public/Meditate/Actualism.htm (2332 words)

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