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Immanent

adjective

Of a mental act performed entirely within the mind. Synonym: subjective.

Of qualities that are spread throughout something. "We think of God as immanent in nature"

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"Immanent" Quotes from Famous Books

... attempted, has again disappeared. Tabernacles is a harvest festival; it is a nature festival. Should not a religion have a festival or holy day of this kind? Is not the conception of God as the ruler and sustainer of nature, the immanent and all-pervading spirit, one aspect of the Divine, which can fitly be thought of and celebrated year by year? Thus each of the three great Pentateuchal festivals may reasonably and joyfully be observed by liberals and ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

... scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (also the mental) inexistence of an object, and what we, although with not quite unambiguous expressions, would call relation to a content, direction towards an object (which is not here to be understood as a reality), or immanent objectivity. Each contains something in itself as an object, though not each in the same way. In presentation something is presented, in judgment something is acknowledged or rejected, in love something is loved, in hatred hated, in desire desired, ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

Words linked to "Immanent" : philosophy, subjective, immanence, transeunt, immanency, distributive