Sentences with phrase «descriptive generalizations»

This is both a warning against any reification of Whitehead's category of the ultimate and a reminder that descriptive generalizations give us, at best, principles, which are actual only in their instantiations or concretizations.

6 In another place Dewey makes a similar point: «It [a system of descriptive generalizations] makes... an assertion about what the constituents of nature itself must be in and of themselves.

This kind of descriptive generalization can sometimes conceal as well as reveal.

3 Whitehead also uses the related terms: «imaginative rationalization,» «imaginative construction,» «descriptive generalization,» and «philosophic generalization.»

Less obviously, transmuted feelings are the physical and perceptual basis for the descriptive generalization by which Whitehead arrives at the conception of the consequent nature of God.

The distinguishing mark of religious experience as opposed to descriptive generalization or conceptual insight is the inclusive generality of relationships embedded in the particular physical feelings associated with religious experience.

Descriptive generalization proceeds on the basis of important physical relations discerned in a limited area of experience and conceptually extended as a hypothetical illumination of other areas of life.

As regards the method of descriptive generalization, Whitehead compared it to the flight of an airplane.

According to Whitehead, this theory was arrived at by «the method of descriptive generalization» and is to be thought of as a «working hypothesis» finally to be tested by reference to empirical fact (AI chapter 15).

From this statement we learn that Hartshorne's method in metaphysics is one of abstraction and descriptive generalization.

Alternatively stated, this cultural anthropology is susceptible to descriptive generalization in terms of the process paradigm and can be studied in terms of its applicability to the structure of spiritual quests cross-culturally.

Finally, Whitehead's methodology of descriptive generalization would, on the micrological view, be seen as belonging within a particular tradition, i.e., as involving what might be called a «metaphysical reduction» of the empirical world to some foundational and actual element, on the same methodological lines as Leibniz's monads, Bradley's substrative feeling, Alexander's space - time matrix, or Heidegger's Being.12 In other words, Whitehead's actual entities are conceived as having a special kind of actuality of their own as the ground or foundation from which the empirical world derives.

Again, there would be no problem in acknowledging, on the micrological view, that Whitehead presents his concept of feeling as a descriptive generalization of (among other things) immediate experience.

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First, the American religious empiricists defend religion by placing it on a purely descriptive basis, using for this a radically empirical sensibility together with inductive generalization; but soon, as I have attempted to indicate, any circumspect reader can see the extent to which this description is loaded with temperamental and, possibly, contextual bias — and, further, by the specificity peculiar to Christianity and American turn - of - the - century neonaturalism.

One begins with a restricted generalization descriptive of phenomena encountered in one field of inquiry (e.g., physics, physiology, psychology, etc.); one then (as he says) «makes a flight into the thin air of generalization» — framing the description to cover all actualities — finally landing again to see how the theory squares with observed fact in areas other than the one from which the inquiry began.

These explanatory principles are attained by a method Whitehead calls (descriptive) «generalization.»

A true accidental generalization is, in effect, descriptive of an environment without disorder.

Generalizations - coursework is not a descriptive type of writing, support all of your claims with evidence from outside resources