world process
Americannoun
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change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
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Hegelianism. change, regarded as the temporal expression and fulfillment of the absolute idea.
Example Sentences
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He considered the world process to consist in sorting out confused things and the gradual establishment of order.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
Hence the world process, and the intelligent purpose we fancy we detect in it must be illusory....
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman
Where the world process is informed with some singleness of plan, as teleology proposes, the parts are reciprocally necessary, and inseparable from the unity.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
This happens not because the connections of the self with the world cease, but because the appearance of the world process does not represent the ultimate and highest truth about it.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
As there is no ultimate beginning in time of this world process, so there is no time at which any person first began his actions or experiences.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
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