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.
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The most remarkable feature of this literature is its elaborate doctrine of evolution and emanation from the Deity, the world process being conceived in the usual Hindu fashion as an alternation of production and destruction.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
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 Surendranath Dasgupta
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 Chapman Cohen
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 Ralph Barton Perry
Both these truth-claiming hypotheses are non-dualistic in the old mind-and-matter sense; but the one is monistic and the other pluralistic as to the world process itself.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
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