Sentences with phrase «felt by objects»

Coriolis acceleration is felt by objects set in motion over the surface of a rotating sphere, like the earth.

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Despite his seemingly good deeds, Lewis was often roundly criticized by disability rights groups who felt the show presented those afflicted with MD — who Lewis referred to as «my kids» — disrespectfully and as objects of pity.

A Danish man who lost his arm in an accident was able to feel objects by way of surgically implanted sensors connected to a bionic hand.

In relation to the space around it the Earth is weightless.But early man felt that the Earth (a very huge object) must be held up by something.

It is only by virtue of God's ordering of the eternal objects that one conceptual feeling, conformal to that of a past temporal actual occasion, can give rise to a new conceptual feeling of an eternal object not present in the prehended occasion.

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.

Like the Leibnizian monad, the occasion is individuated by its individual essence, its particular perspective; but unlike the Leibnizian monad this essence is not predicated of the occasion as a substantial substratum, but enters into the inner constitution of the occasion as «a vector transmission of emotional feeling» or, in the language of physics, «the transmission of a form of energy» from past occasions via the eternal objects that communicate the emotional form and make possible the subsequent reenactment by the prehending occasion (PR 315 / 479f.).

In his book Being and Having, Marcel uses a series of polarities to delineate two basic modes of relating to the world: being and having; participation and objectification; mystery and problem; presence and object; I - Thou relationships and I - It relationships; thought which stands in the presence of, and thought which proceeds by interrogation; concrete thinking and abstraction; secondary reflection and primary reflection.55 Marcel recognizes that both modes of relating to the world are necessary, but he feels the contemporary person is increasingly becoming a slave to the possessive orientation.

This is the sense in which «a fact can harbor potentiality» (Adventures 138): All objects that exist are actual either (1) as determinate, satisfied processes physically felt, or (2) as indeterminate objects created in the present and conceptually felt in the present — by what Whitehead would call Valuation (also Reproduction and Conformity) and Reversion — as the present whole weighs somewhat general and indeterminate alternatives for its satisfaction.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Each self must do its own specifying, and each determination must be a new specification, an object never felt before exactly as it is by anyone, neither physically nor conceptually.

In particular, they may be interrelated indirectly by means of their conceptual feelings of one and the same eternal object.

In contrast, in the putative S - O - T nexus, S and T are interrelated indirectly by means of their conceptual feelings of an eternal object.

Because Whitehead himself usually explains this operation by way of a common eternal object which is illustrated in all the actual entities of the nexus, the significance of a transmuted feeling as a feeling of physical community in the actual world is often overlooked.

For Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensations.

To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»

The physical prehension as conformal feeling, we have said, reproduces the object by assuming the subjective form of one of its prehensions, but as vector it is, and remains throughout the «life» of the subject, an essential relation to that individual object as other, as there and then.

By this distinction of two modes of passivity — of receiving forms - Aristotle sets off the world of conscious experience from the world of nature, but in such a way that not only the objects but the very workings of nature are included as part of what is felt.

Unlike the preceding discussion, which assumes that the ordering of eternal objects needs no grounding, it explains that ordering by reference to God's conceptual feeling.

There is secondary origination of conceptual feelings with data which are partially identical with, and partially diverse from, the eternal objects forming the data in the primary phase of the mental pole; the determination of identity and diversity depending on the subjective aim at attaining depth of intensity by reason of contrast.

By the Great Death: the great death of his own ordinary selfhood in all its dimensions; by a complete reversal of his hitherto - followed, conventional, ordinary subject - object modes of thinking, feeling, and actinBy the Great Death: the great death of his own ordinary selfhood in all its dimensions; by a complete reversal of his hitherto - followed, conventional, ordinary subject - object modes of thinking, feeling, and actinby a complete reversal of his hitherto - followed, conventional, ordinary subject - object modes of thinking, feeling, and acting.

The process starts with the multitude of environmental objects awaiting unification in a fresh perspective, moves through stages of partial integration, and concludes as a fully determinate synthesis, effected by a concrescence of feelings.

By contrast to a subject an object has no felt connections.

It is, he further clarifies, by the primarily emotive nature of this relation of subject and object in experience that there arises a «conformity of feeling,» a «sympathetic bond,» between the two relata found in experience.

He is the unconditioned actuality of conceptual feeling at the base of things; so that, by reason of this primordial actuality, there is an order in the relevance of eternal objects to the process of creation.»

These were»... devised by Whitehead to explain the «living person»... «3 A hybrid physical feeling regarding God is a feeling of an eternal object by the concrescing occasion from a feeling of an eternal object by God.

The ruling Swedes might recognize that religious «feeling» is a legitimate aspect of human subjectivity, but they emphatically object when people act on the fantasies produced by this feeling to the detriment of other people, or when delusionary beliefs impede the achievement of important social objectives.

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)(PR 343, 377.)

Feeling its own authority usurped, the Pastor - Parish Relations Committee objected to the meeting called by the administrative board chairman to discuss complaints against Sid.

We feel that he has contributed immensely to the clarification of the whole field of experience by this insistence; and that he has opened the way to a far more satisfactory interpretation of the object of religious experience as well as to a more satisfactory scientific description of natural processes.

But in its bodily protective role, which eternal objects the presently concrescing occasion of the supportive nexus feels as more relevant «lures for feeling» than others «is left unanswered by the category of reversion» (PR 381f).

It is not only a reasonable hypothesis to say that «eternal object» and «nexus of successive occasions» refer to the pattern of behavioral definiteness sustained by subordinate «living persons» and the regnant society: it is also one of the few hypotheses available for avoiding the «Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness» by not making the entire nexus the locus of subjectively immediate feelings (WEP 183).

That is, by matching itself with eternal objects (possibilities) a relationship is established (qualitative feelings) which constitutes an actual entity's subjective form.

By rendering feeling as the interactive function of dative and concrescent actual entities, he can maintain that the subject - object distinction does not merely supervene at any special cognitive level and hence need not be identified either with the difference or the identity of knower and known.

However, Whitehead's readiness to exploit other aspects of Bradley's theory is indicated by the way he goes about extricating feeling from its entanglement in substance - quality categories; for it is the functional role which Bradley accords to feeling in the objectification of objects that Whitehead takes up, transforming it into something far beyond the strictly - demarcated cognitive condition which it was for Bradley himself.

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.

he maintains that non-relational substrative feeling manifests itself at the relational level by means of the part it plays in the cognitive determination of objects.

Indeed the love command is described by Furnish as a duty independent of feelings, as being measured by comparison not with self - love but with divine love, as unrestricted in nature and scope, and as requiring the whole person including our feelings, and as not able to pick and choose its object.

But when there seem to be better options on the market, and with money no object for he richest club in the world, moving for Matić, who will turn 29 before the start of next season, feels like an unambitious play by United.

You stimulate your baby by talking to her, touching her, being affectionate, showing her the world around her, and introducing objects for her to see, feel, taste, and experience.

She focuses on objects on each page and feels comforted by seeing the same images and hearing the same words over and over.

My baby's need for exploration is supported by allowing him to take all the objects out of my purse, to feel, look at and mouth.

Your child will distinguish objects by touch in this Feel and Find activity.

Structured Adaptive Play allows children to show what they are feeling internally by configuring objects and toys.

As they begin to grow they use their sense of touch to learn by feeling and observing objects, and their environment.

Rock «N» Roll Hall of Fame band R.E.M. objected to its 1987 hit «It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)» being used at the D.C. rally against the proposed Iran nuclear deal, which was attended by two GOP candidates: Trump and Ted Cruz.

Surrounded by these objects, in a dark curtained room suffused with the musty odor of old books, the visitor feels privy not only to the dwelling place but also to the brain of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

Aireal, developed by Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, lets users feel virtual objects in front of them by sending bursts of air to places in space that coincide with the virtual object.

It implied that «if you have two elevators, one made of normal matter and one made of superconducting matter, and accelerate them by the same amount, objects inside will feel different accelerations», de Matos says.