Sentences with phrase «direct modes of perception»

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In this way there is a combination of presentational immediacy with what Whitehead terms «perception in the mode of causal efficacy,» a direct perception of the causal relation between the sense presentation and the object which it stands for.

The two pure modes of perception consist in a direct recognition which can not be mistaken.

In this way, he thinks, we have direct awareness of our bodies as the cause of our perception in the mode of presentational immediacy.

Whitehead claims that in common sense and in traditional philosophies direct perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy are overlooked (PR 184).4 As a result, direct experience is identified with perceptions of presentational immediacy or perceptions in the mixed mode of symbolic reference.

By ignoring direct perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy, we reduce the world experienced to aspects which are immediately presented to the senses and to what we judge to be the possessor of those characteristics.

In effect, Whitehead's insistence that direct experience includes perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy reverses the usual evaluation of the different ways women and men are supposed to experience the world.

Whitehead's broadening of direct experience to include perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy provides an interesting twist to this opinion when it is examined in the philosophical context provided by his theory of perception.