occurrent

comparative more occurrent · superlative most occurrent

1. Current, actual, occurring.
2. human sciencesCurrently or actively present in the mind.

   I hold the occurrent belief that I'm writing this sentence

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   A clear example, although one drawn from a different situation, of unformulated yet occurrent belief would be that in which a clerk unrolls paper to wrap a parcel: there comes a moment when he believes that the length unrolled is enough.

   1951, Curt John Ducasse, Nature, mind, and death, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, page 333

   In such a case, my belief that the person I will meet is named Robert Barchi is clearly occurrent.

   2016, Douglas N. Husak, Ignorance of Law: A Philosophical Inquiry, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196

   One could imagine, for example, that an occurrent belief (e.g. that I'm allergic to apples) would trigger a dispositional desire (not to get an allergic crisis).

   2020 November 13, B. Brodaric, F. Neuhaus, Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (FOIS 2020), IOS Press, →ISBN, page 147

plural occurrents

1. human sciencesAn event, something that occurs.

   the only comfort (saith Jovius) he had to ease his melancholy thoughts, was to hear news, and to listen after those ordinary occurrents, which were brought him cum primis, by letters or otherwise, out of the remotest parts of Europe.

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4

2. One who comes to meet another.