Definition of occurrent in English:
occurrent
adjective əˈkʌrəntəˈkərənt
Actually occurring or observable, not potential or hypothetical.
Example sentencesExamples
- Dasein is not merely an instance of a class of occurrent entities.
- Who I am depends on what I make of my ‘properties’; they matter to me in a way that is impossible for merely available and occurrent entities.
- These are judgments about one's conscious and occurrent first-order intentional states referring to physical objects.
- For an understanding to be about some thing, such as a cat, is for there to be an occurrent concept in the mind that is a natural likeness of a cat.
- Moser defines the appropriate occurrent association relation as follows.
- Thus we don't have the Being of tools nor the Being of naturally occurrent items like rocks.
- Emotions, like beliefs and desires, can exist either as occurrent events or as persisting modifications of the mind.
- The first response argues that our action isn't always caused by occurrent beliefs - we sometimes act through habit, or by instinct, for instance.
- And it would be implausible to suppose that such beliefs are even very often among his occurrent beliefs.
Origin
Late 15th century: from French, or from Latin occurrent- 'befalling', from the verb occurrere.
Rhymes
blackcurrant, concurrent, currant, current, redcurrant