Sentences with phrase «abstracted elements of experience»

Humans continually use abstracted elements of experience, associate them with a contextual framework of meaning, and even suggest a particular world which they represent (MT 34).

A conscious field plus its object as felt or thought of plus an attitude towards the object plus the sense of a self to whom the attitude belongs — such a concrete bit of personal experience may be a small bit, but it is a solid bit as long as it lasts; not hollow, not a mere abstract element of experience, such as the «object» is when taken all alone.

Not exact matches

If man today is asking can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional element in an abstract scheme, it may be fruitful to realize that knowledge and experience of God involve a cyclic growth process from experience to schematization, from formulation to God present in the dynamism of man's life and activity.

Because all language involves a process of abstracting certain elements in experience out of the total complex in which they occur, it is necessarily analogical and therefore imprecise: a word never refers to an absolutely discrete entity.

In terms of the above discussion of what is truly primary in human experience, we are now in a position to understand a statement in which Whitehead summarizes how the «more concrete fact» from which science abstracts should be conceived: «The emotional appetitive elements in our conscious experience are those which most closely resemble the basic elements of all physical experience» (PR 248).

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3

Through arrangements of (an amalgamation of / a melding of) anatomical elements, abstract forms and inanimate objects, Teresa explores the relationship between these subjects and our emotional experience of physical reality.

Adam Craemer is a South African artist who devised a practice of creating pieces of portraiture and adding abstract elements that further the visual experience.

With their experimental materials and sculptural expression, Hasselknippe's works share much in common with Modernism's lyrical nature - abstraction, especially through her emphasis on the sensuous experience of natural elements translated in abstract forms.

Yet it is the integration of all elements that generated an experience outside of the typical appreciation for abstract paintings.

With a focus on temporality and physicality, Hassabi's choreographic experience will direct and experiment with various ways in which the body engages with the established formal elements from the previous iterations: a black and white 16 mm film (shot by Robert), a collection of wooden planks, and a non-linear abstract text (written by Robert).

Her performance - based works formalizes subjectivity within contemporary culture, isolating elements of production, perception, and communication into bare, abstract, and often illogical experience.