Ubiety vs Alm - What's the difference?
ubiety | alm |
The state of existing in a specific point in space.
* 1737 , Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences :
* 1753 , (Isaac Watts), The Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D.D. , volume 5:
* 1956 , Sidney Hook (editor), American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States :
* 2001 , Denis Edwards, Earth revealing—earth healing: ecology and Christian theology :
As a noun ubiety
is the state of existing in a specific point in space.As an initialism alm is
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English
Noun
- Ubiety'' is a Term used with re?pect to ''?piritual Beings'', as ''Locality'' is with regared to ''corporeal'' ones, and is the very ?ame Thing, ''viz.'' that Part of Space which circum?cribes the Exi?tence of Things at any given Moment of Time, and is commonly call'd their ''Place .
- The place of a ?pirit has been often called ubiety', which may mo?t properly refer to ?o much of the material world, of which it has a more evident con?ciou?ne?s, and on which it can act : In God the infinite Spirit, his ' ubiety is where?oever there are objects for his con?iou?ne?s and activity : And you may extend this to all po??ible, as well as real and actual worlds, if you plea?e; for he knows and can do whatever can be known or can be done, and therefore he is ?aid to be every where.
- Physical existence, thus, is essentially spatiotemporal ubiety'; and that which has or lacks '''ubiety , that is, is or is not present at some place in space at some time, is always some ''what'' or ''kind —which may be a kind of substance, or of property, or of relation, or of activity, or of change, or of state, and so on.
- Swain refers to this "history of Australian Aboriginal being" as a "hermeneutics of ubiety ," that is, a hermeneutics of whereness or of being in a definite place.
