Sentences with phrase «ideal objects abstracted»

Whitehead always accepted experience as more fundamental than ideal objects abstracted from it.3

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I don't believe the «mind» exists nor do I believe that abstract objects exist in some kind of platonic word of ideals that we access (again, there's no proof in favor of it).

An abstract or ideal thing that has no reference to «particular feelings, or emotions, or sensations» is what Whitehead later would define as an eternal object (see PR 44).

In a summary of Whitehead's position, mathematics is abstracted from human experience to become ideal objects which initially represent general things that are symbolized in classes by variables.

The voracious sexuality and hallmark stylization of Picasso's depictions of women are evoked by the abstract marks, speaking of a modernist painterly machismo, while the soft - focus female nudes establish woman as anonymous muse, sexual object and aesthetic ideal.

Reinhardt describes these paintings as: «A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no - contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free - hand, painted surface (glossless, textureless, non-linear, no hard - edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings — a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting — an object that is self - conscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art (absolutely no anti-art).»