Sentences with phrase «by subjective thought»

«Because plants make their decisions based on physiological processes and are not distracted from the best course of action by subjective thought, they could even be better models than animals and people,» says Bernhard Schmid from the University of Zurich.

Not exact matches

Any and every bar fight can now end in a not guilty verdict by the subjective rational of» I thought my life was in danger:»

Rather than, as usual, assign the hybrid prehension of God to the first phase, with the conceptual derivation in the second phase (which would deprive the initial phase of simple physical feeling of any guidance by the subjective aim), we should think of these two terms as referring to the same feeling.

I do not know why Whiteheadians should object (PS 6:219) to this monistic theme, since they are committed to think in terms of a God who supplies the initial subjective aim of each actual entity, and of the completion of the development of the actual entity by «the final reaction of the self - creative unity of the universe» (PR 75 — italics supplied).

«These lectures will be best understood by noting the following list of prevalent habits of thought, which are repudiated, in so far as concerns their influence on philosophy:... (vii) The Kantian doctrine of the objective world as a theoretical construct from purely subjective experience» (PR xiii [x]-RRB-.

Whitehead's exceedingly strong distinctions between subjective and objective dimensions of the transmission of feelings, and the final and efficient causality therein involved, fall into the category of this infection of thought by modes of discrimination between individually conceivable things or elements of things.66

It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»

The author believes that Whitehead's thought provides us with an unusual opportunity to examine our religious beliefs by giving us a new view of reality, and concludes that Whitehead offers not only productive insights into the understanding of the nature of God and man, but also strong arguments for both objective and subjective immortality.

DE: I think he would say that a thing's subjective aim perishes with it, but that its character as subjective form can be conformed to by the next in the chain.

Nevertheless, if we say, as I think we should, that the subjective feeling of creative unification of the incomplete is at the heart of human experience and the universe, and that our ontology should reflect this by maintaining the fundamental contrast between creative becoming and accomplished being, then perishing is a very important doctrine indeed!

In process there is continual introduction of novelty, which in the interest of survival can be responded to in one of two manners: one may reduce the event to irrelevance by «blocking out unwelcome detail» (negative prehension) or «by an initiative in conceptual prehensions, i.e., in appetition its subjective aim originates novelty to match the novelty of the environment... through thinking.»

Basically I think now that the argument (EWM 211 - 19) needs to be developed in terms of two stages, the first concerning the reorientation brought about by conceiving an initial phase of simple physical feelings in concrescence, and then a second stage introduced by the idea of «subjective aim.»

Luther thought of these subjective followers of the Spirit as fluttering about without purpose, «blown about by every wind of doctrine» as St Paul put it.

Didn't know we ever had title hopes this season and would have thought that even the most subjective of fans would realize by now that we really don't have any title hopes.

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy principally involves PLACE - creating a Playful, Loving, Accepting, Curious, and Empathic environment in which the therapist and parent attune to the child's «subjective experiences» (feelings, and thoughts) and help the child make sense of them by reflecting back and validating those experiences to the child by means of eye contact, facial expressions, gestures and movements, tone of voice, timing and touch.

The researchers manipulated their subjective knowledge by making participants think they were more or less knowledgeable than other participants in the study.

With this in mind, LSE researchers set out to study the nature and extent of the «intangible» impact of the Olympic Games by using measures of subjective wellbeing that have been developed and tested by economists and psychologists for around 20 years in order to assess how people think and feel about their lives.

This is a completely subjective view, and it's prone to being easily swayed by your thoughts.

«I think it is completely «subjective» when someone looks a picture and is either delighted, suspect, or intimidated by what they «see».

Robbins» docu, initiated by the NEA, tries to convey the subjective feeling and thoughts of soldiers through their writing, be they letters, poems, or stories.

More likely - in fact certainly - employees will be asked to prove their worth by answering subjective questions, or more correctly forming an opinion about a subjective question, which by definition does not have a correct answer, only a well thought out opinion or point - of - view.

I agree that the main goal of my participation in the group is to learn the process by which the discovery of possible solutions to problems that are subjective in nature with no right - wrong answers — only well thought out opinions — takes place.

More importantly, observations are inherently biased because they are based on subjective determinations by school leaders and others who are prone to think that their approach to teaching is superior to anyone else's (even if teachers being evaluated have demonstrated that they improve student achievement as measured by test score growth).

If you do, I am not saying you are wrong, I'm saying that you are making a subjective value judgment and there is no way to refute you, so I won't insult you by saying that I think your values are stupid, which is what people who try to refute value statements are really doing.

But I am claiming that Harrison's comments were more unclear than perhaps he remembers, and in order not to be selectively quoted (slightly, and I would argue legitimately, by me, in the course of summarizing a long lecture, and even further by others for more subjective reasons) on the problem of multiple SKUs, he needs to think carefully before he goes on the attack.

His work is deeply informed by his upbringing in Brazil and the complex history of the country: its colonial past, US political interference, and the contemporary boom; while the thinking behind his work is concerned with the subjective understanding of what it means to be on the periphery and the conflict between western and non-western status.

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: But on the contrary, I was put in a subjective position of thinking, especially watching the artists handled by Castelli so efficiently all over the place, of thinking that I was much less interesting to other people than they were.

Like government papers, these texts are subjective — documents written with a specific thought in mind that are open to interpretation by the reader.

No question that the Surrealists made a great contribution by showing that it was possible to paint a subjective thought, a feeling, a subjective idea.

For Buren, works of art falsify reality by projecting a purely subjective vision upon it, and, especially in the context of a gallery or museum, they undermine the freedom of thought and perception in viewers by imposing a false, ideological illusion.

I think that what you really mean is that reading scientific instruments is done by the same biological computers, human brains, that also make mostly subjective decisions.

(The trouble, I think, is that «no simpler than necessary» necessarily invokes subjective value judgments, some of which are illuminated by the various alternate formulations such as those that I listed.)

So, I think it is time to reassess what is meant by «overgazed» with less subjective metrics than outdated models of «carrying capacity.»

This because I do not think I am making a subjective choice by uniformly weighting (neither in Mooloos case or in mine).

I think, though, that ultimately the subjective nature of them leaves little room for comment by me, save to say that perhaps there is merit in everyone drafting his or her own ungodly body of rules to guide their professional or personal lives.

Although even there I am somewhat troubled by the phrase «the lawyer considers to be dishonest;» I would have thought in the context of advocacy a lawyer ought to have some objective basis for knowing that the client is being dishonest, rather than simply making a subjective assessment about whether she «considers» her client to be dishonest.

Judges are human, and thus, fall victim to subjective thinking, no matter how well they scored on their law exams, or how well regarded they are by their in - house peers.