Potentiality and Act/ Distance Education/ Margith A. Strand

Potentiality is essentially relative to act and is for the sake of the act. It is indeed only in relation to the act that the potentiality can be conceived.

Act and potentiality belong to the same order; that is to say, both must be in the same order of substance.

TIme/Distance Education/ Margith A. Strand

"A Transcendental determination of time is so far homogeneous with the category, which constitutes the unity thereof, that it is universal, and rests upon a rule a priori.  On the other hand, it is so far homogeneous with the phenomenon, inasmuch as time is contained in every empirical representation of the manifold."  Immanuel Kant

"Time is contained as a system in Distance Learning." Margith A. Strand "Space is a determination, a whatness, a content, of an abstract something in which all the objects of our experience participate" I. Kant; "....inasmuch as time is contained in every empirical representation of the manifold." Kant
Time is captured in the words, and yet, the words are an experiential and empirical representation of action...social justice as discourse. Margith A. Strand

Modern Philosophy: begin/ Margith A. Strand

Modern Philosophy/ Learning Process Schema/ Margith A. Strand


Categories p. 422 E. Gilson, ed.

A. Quantity

1. Unity – “Atomistic concept of idea”/ M. Strand

2. Plurality – “Summation of ideas; constructive in sentence”/ M. Strand

3. Totality – “Unification of ideas; discourse”/ M. Strand



B. Quality

1. Reality – “Comprehension; Practice of Knowledge” M. Strand

2. Negation – “Cognitive Rejection; Affirmation of Negative” M. Strand

3. Limitation – “Bounded Knowledge; Affirmation of Limit” M. Strand



C. Relation

1. Inherence and subsistence **

[Locke- captions of ideas from which] “Apparently what Locke has done is to reflect on our thinking and willing activities and from these derive the ideas of succession, cause and effect, and even the notion of “endurance” within the flow of experience; i.e. a certain kind of unity of continued self-identity, which is what he seems to mean by “existence.” [Modern Philosophy/E. Gilson, Ed. Random House, N. Y. 1968 Library of Congress 62-16201]



Locke further:

The simple ideas are received by a relatively passive sensory system. The compounding of simple ideas into complex ones, however, requires a very active role on the part of the mind; these basic activities of the mind are activities of combining, comparing, and separating. The results of these activities are complex ideas that fall into three categories: substances, modes, and relations. [Modern Philosophy/E. Gilson, Ed. Random House, N. Y. 1968 Library of Congress 62-16201]



Substance and Accident: has been deleted by Margith Strand. I called it “accidence.” Found Kant on this material and went that way.



2. Causality and dependence (cause and effect): Quality; Substance :passive: Unity



3. Community (reciprocity between agent and “student-learner”): Active - Plurality



D. Modality



1. Possibility-impossibility : Cause and Effect : Unity and Plurality

2. Existence-nonexistence : Substance and Accidence : percipi

3. Necessity- contingency: Positivism - Totality
Added notes are by Margith A. Strand