Sentences with phrase «subjective elements which»

The «objective» historians are often very lavish with such pronouncements, and they thus introduce a subjective element which seems to me unjustified.

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In this passage the deductive argument, which treats each element of the situation as a separate event, has been overshadowed by a fabric of subjective relationships among elements treated as constituents of one complex process.

The sense in which a prehension is a concrete element divided out of an actual entity requires the prehension to be partial with respect to its subjective form.

«Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 166).»

It also accepts Hume's doctrine that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 253).

Religious experience has an organic structure which can be analyzed in terms of the physical and conceptual feelings correlative to the generality of values perceived, and the subjective forms appropriate to each feeling element.

It corresponds to Whitehead's category of subjective intensity which states that the subject's «anticipatory feeling respecting provision for its grade of intensity» is an element «affecting the immediate complex of feeling» (PR 41).

«E.g., that the feelings which arise in various phases of a concrescence be compatible for integration; that no element in a concrescence can finally (in the «satisfaction») have two disjoined roles; that no two elements can finally have the same role; that every physical feeling gives rise to a corresponding conceptual feeling: that there is secondary origination of variant conceptual feeling; and that the subjective forms (valuations) of the conceptual feelings are mutually determined by their aptness for being joint elements in the satisfaction aimed at.

On the other hand his control and efficacy operate not by arbitrary (that is to say, independent and «omnipotent») overruling, nor by being the only active elements in the occasion; but by the persuasive molding of new possibilities, by redirecting the pressures of prior actualities, by providing new opportunity for advance, and by offering the «lure» which evokes from each occasion in the ongoing process the movement towards satisfaction of its «subjective aim».

For on his own principles if there were not some kind of awareness of causal efficacy, there would be no warrant for making statements about it: «Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 166/253).

This introduces an entirely new element, which completely transcends natural science, as can be seen, for instance, from the fact that the affirmations of natural science are intrinsically transsubjective in character — that is to say, they are entirely independent of man's subjective understanding of himself.

Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).

The new unity goes deep, It implies a continuity in origin of the subjective elements of individuals which we recognize so clearly in our human experience.

In regard to his doctrine of ingression, Whitehead distinguished three different ways in which an eternal object can function in the concrescence of an actual entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445).

Later on, he relates it to Hume's doctrine «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience.

Elements of this orthodoxy were retained in subsequent changes such as in the next big movement, known as pietism, which emphasized the subjective aspect of individual salvation as contrasted with intellectual acceptance of doctrines.

A prehension has several elements: an actual entity which is felt or prehended by another entity; the entity which prehends the first actual occasion; and the «subjective form» (PR 338), or unique way in which the second occasion prehends the first one.

To them, the religio - scientific inquiry of the history of religions is an important tool to develop an adequate philosophy of religion, which transcends the regional and subjective elements involved in all religious systems.

Readings which explain other variants, but are not contrariwise to be explained by the others, merit our preference; but this is a very subtle process, involving intangible elements, and liable to subjective judgement on the part of the critic.

Often, there are simply differences of opinion, which — because review papers are almost bound to contain some subjective elements — do not necessarily lead down the road to rejection.

There is a third, more subjective, element to an intrinsic value calculation that can be either positive or negative: the efficacy with which retained earnings will be deployed in the future.

Whatever the form in which her works exist they become observations about existing protocols, as well as subjective elements looking for a fundamental transformation.

The weakening of this subjective element means that a person, read celebrity, is better able to control his public image — leaving aside the important issue of whether personal information is property, for which we await the House of Lords» judgment in Douglas v Hello!