Sentences with phrase «feelings of other actual»

Whitehead's judgment is that within the body there is considerable conformity of the percipient or dominant occasion to the feelings of the other actual occasions it prehends, but that when we go beyond the body, as in our visual experience of colors, any such element of conformity becomes much more doubtful.

Physical feelings are feelings of other actual occasions, and most of these occasions make up what we call the physical world.

Not exact matches

A lot of coding and other activity may make your engineers feel better (it's a somewhat effective antidote for anxiety), but it's not likely to be moving the ball up the field or leading your business to a better result for your clients unless it's informed by actual and timely customer input.

Though he claims he has no actual editorial pull, Flanders nudged others within the company to contemporize the overall look and feel of the publication.

Understand what they are really saying Listen beyond the actual words others use, as negative chatter and miserable stories can often mask feelings of low self - esteem and inferiority.

Banks and other institutions could lend more money every time the Fed reduced rates, and this led consumers to feel more confident in borrowing more, but it stressed their actual financial system beyond repair in many cases, and it caused stress for those that didn't borrow because they felt priced out of the housing market.

A nexus enjoys «social order» where (i) there is a common element of form illustrated in the definiteness of each of its included actual entities, and (ii) this common element of form arises in each member of the nexus by reason of the conditions imposed upon it by its prehensions of some other members of the nexus, and (iii) these prehensions impose that condition of reproduction by reason of their inclusion of positive feelings of that common form.

It releases, in other words, back into the field the feelings which it originally drew from the field of past actual occasions in the early stages of its concrescence, but now newly configured in terms of its own immanent «decision.»

Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities physical feelings as well.

His rejection of independently existing substance in favor of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out of the feelings of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form of order is aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process of reality, are all examples of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.

Reason, on the other hand, has often been opposed to feeling by insisting upon fidelity to the evidence of actual experience.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

While I tend to agree with the views posted by Cpt Obvious, Tim, dandintac, et al, I do admire that you are presenting your point of view in a personal manner and seem to have put some actual thought into it and you recognize that not everyone will have the same experience as you, and you don't condemn others for not feeling the same way (although it does make me wonder what your thoughts are on eternal torment for non-believers).

God differs from the other actual entities in the fact that Hume's principle, of the derivate character of conceptual feelings, does not hold for him.

Therefore, even though there are no space - time distances between an actual occasions feelings, it is metaphysically possible for some of those feelings to be earlier than others.

As a result of the process of concrete relationality, qualities emerge as bridges linking this event to that; relating individuals to each other by way of sympathetic social feeling; binding the values of the past to the exigencies of the present; connecting through action what is ideal to what is immediate and actual.

Concretely, then, the integration of simple physical feelings into a complex transmuted feeling provides for the various actual entities of the nexus being felt as separate entities requiring each other.

Let me rephrase this essential point in the language of the fourteenth category of explanation: A set of mutually contemporaneous actual entities does not have a «unity of the relatedness constituted by their prehensions [i.e., simple physical feelings] of each other» (Process 24).

Hence, it can not feel actual entities that are in a «unison of becoming» with it — i.e., that are its causal «contemporaries» (Process 123 - 25): For «contemporary events happen in causal independence of each other» (Process 61).

Let us assume that there are two durations that satisfy the following three conditions: (1) One is later than the other; (2) they do not have members in common; and (3) the set containing all of the actual entities from both durations is a nexal set.20 In that nexal set, there are chains of actual entities, linked together by simple physical feelings, that span the entire universe.

Thus for Whitehead solipsism is only a temptation because intellectually we turn our back on that deep connectedness which we always really feel between our present pulse of subjectivity and other actual occasions.

In the example above (loves John Eloise) is a feeling established in some actual entity by a prehension of other actual entities in which (attractive Eloise) and (intelligent Eloise) are positive prehensions in these entities.

This line of reasoning, however, applies only to actual occasions God's feelings do not employ negative prehensions to effect perspectival elimination.6 Finite occasions prehend other occasions from spatiotemporal standpoints which are different from those occupied by the occasions prehended, and therefore their prehending must be perspectival.

An actual occasion's «universe» — also called its «actual world» — is the nexus of all those occasions which have already become and are available for feeling.7 This nexus is its past, and is not quite the same as the past of any other occasion.

Hence all the parts of an actual entity are present to each other in a felt immediacy.

The conclusion from this examination of the texts is that the analogy between molecules and electrons on the one hand and God and actual occasions on the other is without foundation and very misleading, since it lulls the unwary reader into feeling that since Whitehead at least implicitly acknowledges overlapping regional standpoints in the first instance (which we have seen to be false) then to say that God is omnipresent, meaning that the standpoint of God includes the regions which constitute the standpoints of all actual occasions, is merely an extension of a general principle which Whitehead at least implicitly endorses.

In one case, the data reduce to a single actual entity, other than the subject of the feeling; and in the other case the data reduce to a single eternal object.

The perfection of the subjective aim of an actual occasion is «the absence from it of component feelings which mutually inhibit each other...» (Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 256) One form of inhibition, complete inhibition, is finiteness and does not derogate from perfection.

The simplest moral philosophy of doing unto others as you have them do unto you is readily understandable by all normal people, just as a pleasure shared is not halved but doubled but, to the amoralist, the psychopath it has no meaning as they have no empathy and feel neither the happiness nor the sadness of others, they are genetically abnormal suffering from an actual and real physical defect.

Imagine if Santa didn't leave actual, physical gifts, but was credited for the feelings of goodwill and generosity that people feel during the holidays, and what if he wasn't supposed to be living in a «real» place like the North Pole, but was just an invisible spirit, like some other characters we know?

I want to thank you for what I learned; how to keep quiet and listen to others; the whole concept of what you termed «unfinished business»... which meant that there was an interpersonal relationship which had not been worked through; the surprising truth that there is no conflict that does not disappear if both people will go into the encounter and face the negatives and articulate them in terms of actual feelings; your continual emphasis on getting rid of the things that keep people from loving each other.

Accordingly, Whitehead attributes to all actual entities this feeling of the emotional tone of other actual entities.

Finite actual entities, in other words, may well opt for foolish rather than wise possibilities without divine assistance which always is prehended in the form of a feeling or «lure» (along with other feelings, to be sure, from still other sources).

God, in other words, is communicating with the actual occasion in its process of self - constitution through a feeling - level evaluation of the de facto situation in which the occasion finds itself.

On the other hand, if we abstract from that which feels, if we consider this process in view of the unification of objectified occasions, then we can confirm that feeling relates to the «concept of the actual world,» that is to that nexus which achieves concrete unity in the feeling occasion, etc..

«actual occasions» are shaped not only by logical reasoning, but includes all aspects of one's subjective experiences, including the use of ones imagination, aesthetic feelings, and other forms of non-cognitive and unconscious influences.

In other words — considered from the perspective of the feeling occasion — in the interest of expanding its own room for development, its relative actual world, and its capacity for feeling, the occasion which is in the process of concretion will give privilege to those occasions in its environment which embody a high integration of the world and thus an order as complex as possible.

The rest of us will just have to stumble along finding meaning in our friends, relatives and all the other things that have actual meaning as opposed to empty feel good stories that can only be seen after death.

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.

Whitehead's recognition of this led him to note that some of the feelings he usually called conceptual prehensions (prehensions of eternal objects) are really hybrid prehensions (objectifications of an actual entity by an eternal object derived from its mental pole).46 In this way Whitehead moves in the direction of assimilating the relation of actual occasions to God to the relation of actual entities to each other.

For the «internal diversity» which Bradley could only place in feeling as one conflicting metaphor among others (cf. ETR 196), becomes in Whitehead the actual entities of which feeling is the «intermediary» (PR 88); so conceived, Bradley's «togetherness is appropriated within a pluralist framework.

On the one hand, I feel like I should talk about the details of the actual recipe since I figure people probably want to know a little bit about what they're making, but on the other hand, I want to talk about pretty much everything but the actual recipe.

However, many others feel that standard deviation doesn't give them a «real feel» for the actual risk of that investment.

The other view of science fiction, figureheaded in retrospect by one Herbert George Wells — «H. G.» to pretty much everyone — was that actual science was best left to actual scientists and science - themed novelists should feel free to make stuff up if it helped uncover the social and philosophical pitfalls in humanity's road ahead.

Now, a team of engineers has done them one better: With finger - worn devices, users can «feel» virtual objects around them while still maintaining the ability to grasp other — actual — objects.

In other words, if you've ever questioned whether that twitchy feeling you get every time you scroll Instagram is a sign of actual addiction, you can officially stop wondering.

While many women have come at peace and embraced their physique for evening trendy tops trendy designs while other women undergo the tension of going to choose the slim options which when come to the actual event feel more worried about the evening event then the plus size women who have confidence in their selection of dress.

As a result, the users feel great and let others know of their actual emotions without an apprehension of being disrespected.

Where other films might feel the need to announce or explain Woodcock's (not unearned) high opinion of his dresses, «Phantom Thread» needs only to show how Woodcock comports himself to indicate his view of himself as a grand artist is as important to him as the actual work.

Released last week, this is definitely one of the best short fan films we have seen, using some great camera angles, what feels like an actual Panaglide camera that Carpenter would die for, slow burn suspense, and a killer performance from leading actress Suzee Dunn playing «Jamie», who is stalked by Myers for no apparent reason (other than it's Halloween).