Sentences with phrase «experience of actual fact»

Likewise, experience of actual fact («unchanging given,» CT 375) and pure potentiality (CT 375) are assigned to the same self mode, the id (CT 378).

Not exact matches

It is one thing to grant that a moral world must contain natural regularities and that some nonmoral evil is an unavoidable by - product of such regularities, but quite another thing to grant that we must have the exact types and amount of natural evil which we in fact experience in the actual world.

But to verify it in detail through the facts of actual experience was not too easy.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

Now although this primordial actual entity may itself be interpreted in terms of the principle of creative synthetic experiencing, the fact remains that simplicity of principle is gained at the expense of multiplication of entities, and the latter offends Occam's principle as surely as does multiplicity of principles.

This perspective of B as external to that of A. However, Whitehead's theory is inconsistent with versions of externalism which assume a hypothetical ideal observer or versions of externalism dependent on types of realism which posit objective facts of the matter independent of the experience of any actual subject.

In fact, in spite of his insisting that most actual occasions are unconscious (and that there is much that is unconscious even in that series of actual occasions which constitute our successive mental states), his talk of their experience or feeling of themselves, the influence of their predecessors, and their subjective immediacy seems pointless unless each of them is supposed to feel its own being, in some genuine sense, however dimly, so that there is a truth as to what - it - is - like - being - it.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

In that case, either my experience does not have (at any moment) the unity of an actual entity (i.e., it is then in fact and finally many discrete experiences and not an experience at all), or my experience is an actual occasion including, or contributed to by, both the ego and the other occasions of the nexus.

If our world were a centered universe, a universe with an all - seeing (i.e., all - prehending) God with the ability to introduce, on his own, new information pertaining to the past into the experience of emerging actual occasions by means of their subjective aims, then our world would be a much more harmoniously ordered world than it in fact is.

That supernatural order of life which the apocalyptists had predicted in terms of pure fantasy is now described as an actual fact of experience.

A definition of the basis of experience must start from the fact that the word «unicorn» is only appropriate in connection with certain experiences of imaginative understanding, not in connection with any actual sense experience.

He said that the «Christian doctrine of grace stands in juxtaposition to the Christian doctrine of original sin and has meaning only if the latter is an accurate description of the actual facts of human experience.

In fact, if Hartshorne's solution can be said to surpass theirs in its explicitly psychicalist claim that God is somehow experienced not only by every human being but by every actual entity whatever, theirs can be said to go beyond his in its more fully elaborated metaphysics of knowledge or cognitional theory.

But is it not a fact that we often, perhaps usually, have in our minds an impression of the appearance of any person about whom we have thought or heard much, even though we may have had no actual basis for the impression, either in our own experience or in what others have told us?

it is one thing to grant that a moral world must contain natural regularities and that some nonmoral evil is an unavoidable by - product of such regularities, but quite another thing to grant that we must have the exact types and amount of natural evil which we in fact experience in the actual world.

The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience, complex and interdependent.»

The fact that Whitehead understands human experience to consist in discrete «drops» or «actual occasions» of experience may be an example of the fact that Whitehead's generalizations were developed from more than one starting point, in this case modern quantum theory as well as psychology.

@Donovan... I speak only for my experience and not to convert anyone... I study biochemistry, I work on a membrane protein that requires proof, it requires pictures of gels and actual empirical data... I have no problem with this fact based way of seeing life...

For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature» of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification of the consequent nature.

As will be explained in chapter four, Hartshorne disagrees with Whitehead's statement in this quotation that God is an actual entity; but, otherwise, Hartshorne's metaphysics totally agrees with Whitehead's declaration that the «final facts» are «actual entities» or «drops of experience.»

The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience.

If so, we must consider the hypothesis that these events in nature are in fact also actual occasions of experience.

Moreover, the basic principle of motivation — in fact, the «glue» of the whole universe — is the «intrinsic value of experiencing,» «the appeal of life for life, or feeling for feeling, of experience for experience, consciousness for consciousness — and potential enjoyment for actual enjoyment» (BSI 203).

The fact is that, actual and / or possible internal inconsistencies notwithstanding, Whitehead's Enquiry employs or considers a variety of possibilities concerning the nature of experience and the meaning and status of externality, all of which are worth careful scrutiny for the value they may have as relating to the clarification of Whitehead's thought as well as to the articulation or resolution of relevant philosophical issues.

Any such particular fact 0f togetherness among actual entities is called a nexus... The ultimate facts of immediate actual experience are actual entities, prehensions, and nexus.

15 Consider, for example, his doctrine that»... an actual fact is a fact of aesthetic experience.

Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences come, («The influence of the Holy Spirit, exquisitely called the Comforter, is a matter of actual experience, as solid a reality as that of electro - magnetism.»

While we know from first hand experience that no game is a foregone conclusion pre-match, were Chelsea to drop points in this home fixture with newly promoted Blackpool, it would rate amongst some of the biggest shocks in Premier League history, although, in actual fact, most punters are worrying over how many Chelsea will win by rather than deciding whether or not Blackpool can spring another surprise at tasty odds.

For example, a good quality baby ring sling can withstand weights of well over 30 kg but in actual fact, our experience shows that typically baby wearers will start to feel the strain from carrying babies over 7 or 8 kg in a baby ring sling for an extended period of time.

In fact, in a meta - analysis of all research that measured the impact of forgiveness interventions, Nathaniel Wade and I found that a factor as simple as the amount of time someone spent trying to forgive was highly related to the actual degree of forgiveness experienced.

That vague objective has been replaced at the top of the resume by informative summaries with actual facts, such as «Executive secretary with more than 10 years of experience in the financial industry.»

Fact: While there indeed may be no universal longing of all women for motherhood (which sometimes has been mis - called «maternal instinct»), or instinctual knowledge of women about how to care for infants, as applied to women's actual pregnancy and post-childbirth experiences, «scientists have yet to find a definitive explanation for the heightened sensitivity so often associated with mothering... Some research and informal observation ssuggest that the caregiving experience develops a stronger intuitive tie between the infant and the parent most often responsible for meeting the infant's needs.

The «balance of convenience» is in reality a balance that occurs naturally within a truely freely operating market economy wherein buyer / seller forces act automatically, over time, to right any actual and / or perceived wrongs that would be being experienced by consumers as they examined the benefits, or not, of dealing with business operations at play within said market place... with said market place being entirely devoid of bureaucratic socialistic pupetteering (before - the - fact of forcing the market to seek «its» interpretation of top - down derived equilibrium).