Sentences with phrase «imaginative generalization»

Its flight is the «imaginative generalization» of ideas drawn from that particular domain of experience into the lofty sphere of logical, coherent principles.

it starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.»

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight into the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational observation» (PR 5/7).

The problem, as elsewhere stated, is that the precision of language and arguments can not take the place of a philosophic method in which imaginative generalization and insight are paramount.

Nor, it might be pressed, is this objection avoided by appealing to Whitehead's explicitly adopted method of metaphysical construction, the method of imaginative generalization (of which his plea here as in effect an expression).

Moreover, a supplementary condition is required for the success of an imaginative generalization, insofar as the generalization should always take its point of departure from within some particular branch of human learning.

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it takes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation» (PR 5/7).

Imaginative generalization is a method of discovery which seeks to recapture the unity of experience by successive insights into the overall interconnectedness of actual entities.

It will enlighten observation in those remote fields, so that general principles can be discerned as in process of illustration, which in the absence of the imaginative generalization are obscured by their persistent exemplification» (PR 5/8).

The aim of the imaginative generalization consists in seeing how each genus of facts is, in reality, a limited expression of some universal principle which is equally exemplified in some very different genus of facts.

The principle of universal relativity turns out, in the last analysis, to be the ontological foundation for the process of imaginative generalization.

The passage in question is worth quoting, because it presents a good framework from which to approach imaginative generalization, which constitutes Whitehead's own version of «abstractive induction.»

Science in the Modern World can be read as an exercise of the process of imaginative generalization, as it has just been described.

Thus, the imaginative generalization begins with some salient feature of reality viewed within the perspective of some particular intellectual discipline and then posits a principle which is exemplified within that discipline, but whose scope is not limited to the discipline in question.

The movement of imaginative generalization, which I have described above as the discovery of a general metaphysical principle and its repeated application and rediscovery within the diverse branches of human learning, is not intended to fulfill a condition of «complete enumeration of particulars» which would ground the affirmation that the principle is indeed of universal scope.

(1) Since the principle of internal relatedness has been posited as the ontological foundation of the intellectual process of imaginative generalization, and it has also been affirmed that this principle is itself arrived at via imaginative generalization, do we thus find ourselves trapped in a sort of vicious circle?

The aim of imaginative generalization is not to purify observation of interpretation, for if such were the case we would be left with little more than the bland experience of the stone: «If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography» (PR 15/22).

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

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This certainly seems to be the sense of Whitehead s conception of «imaginative rationalization» or «generalization» (PR 5 / 7).

3 Whitehead also uses the related terms: «imaginative rationalization,» «imaginative construction,» «descriptive generalization,» and «philosophic generalization.»

The entire essay is based on this generalization stated early on: «hiring a small team of lawyers is the least likely path towards achieving imaginative and effective policy.»