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  • Sensa are occurent phenomena, and therefore fleeting (222): If I hear the bell striking the hour of four, the experience comprises many passing sensa, each no sooner generated than gone.

    Collingwood's Aesthetics Kemp, Gary 2009

  • One other important note here: I have required that it be the “same belief” that is at one time occurrent, then dispositional, and then occurent again.

    Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009

  • When we wonder whether a proposition P is true, it might trigger a remote search, and the result returns as an occurent belief.

    Externalism About Mental Content Lau, Joe 2008

  • It has not, apparently, been similarly argued on such grounds that there are no experiential episodes of seeing (an example of Aristotle's which he sees as parallel to pleasure) or of tasting, or that a dispositionalist rather than an occurent state account of these is therefore true, although these would seem equally to follow.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • What distinguishes the account I will offer is that it respects both the intuition that dispositions are relational properties and the intuition that causal powers are grounded in occurent properties that are intrinsic to their instances.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2008

  • Moreover, since the concretum receives the attribute, the attribute is either learning itself, which is clearly not demonstrable of every concrete instance of a human being, since some human beings may fail to realize their capacity to learn, or merely the ability to learn, which is not an actual occurrent constituting part of a real fact about the world as it is, but, as Albert insisted, merely a kind of possibility of an occurent thing.

    Medieval Theories of Demonstration Longeway, John 2005

  • "that you make a booke of paper wherein you may dayly or at least weekly insert all things occurent to you," [73] the reason being that such observations, when contemporary history was scarce, were of value.

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

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