evential
Etymology
From event + -ial.
adj
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(metaphysics) Pertaining to or composed of events. Moreover, the three orders of duration—evential, conjunctural, and structural—are regarded as commensurable in the terms of the same scale. 1974, Hermonio Martins, “Time and Theory in Sociology”, in John Rex, editor, Approaches to Sociology (RLE Social Theory): An Introduction to Major Trends in British Sociology, page 268; republished by Routledge, 21 August 2015[…]ontic actualities, while evential events not only reveal the fundamental significance of the happening of events[…] 2005, Ian Graham Leask, Eoin G. Cassidy, editors, Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion, Fordham University Press, page 174Nonetheless, this world is not the objective and evential universe in which we live together as objects exchangeable and replaceable with other objects. It is the world where each one or each thing is alone and equal. 6 December 2014, Tristan Garcia, translated by Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, Edinburgh University Press, page 331
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