One can agree with David Bohm, that scientific objects are not fundamentally different from what happens
in immediate perception (STR 228).
Not exact matches
19) of the Posterior Analytics, where Aristotle describes how the mind ascends to the first principles on which all science is grounded, he points out that the
immediate point of departure of the inductive movement is not mere sense
perception, but «experience»: «So from
perception there comes memory, as we call it, and from memory (when it occurs often
in connection with the same thing), experience; for memories that are many
in number form a single experience.
...
In the
perception of a contemporary stone, for example,... the
immediate percept assumes the character of the quiet undifferentiated endurance of the material stone, perceived by means of its quality of color...
In contrast stands the more basic perception in the mode of causal efficacy; which «is our general sense of existence, as one item among others in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.&raqu
In contrast stands the more basic
perception in the mode of causal efficacy; which «is our general sense of existence, as one item among others in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.&raqu
in the mode of causal efficacy; which «is our general sense of existence, as one item among others
in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.&raqu
in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an
immediate past, and of passage to an
immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.»
«Such options are often neither optimum nor necessarily rights - enhancing, but represent
perceptions of what would minimize encroachments and maximize survival whether
in the
immediate or long run.»
Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered
in the percipient's
immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true
perception — what we might now
in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of
perception.»
He states that a man may have
immediate awarenesses of two kinds: intuitive awareness of his own thoughts and feelings and sympathetic awareness of certain changes
in parts of his body.21 The second type of direct human awareness involves the principle that the objects immediately known
in sensation or
perception are always objects inside the body and never objects outside the body.
If all human experience arises from sensation, and if sensation is understood as what Whitehead calls «
perception in the mode of presentational immediacy,» then indeed each of us is shut
in to her or his
immediate experience.
The direct
perception whereby the datum
in the
immediate subject is inherited from the past can thus, under an abstraction, be conceived as the transference of throbs of emotional energy, clothed
in the specific forms provided by sensa.
Because of the relative shallowness of the world as grasped
in secondary
perception our symbols, which borrow their first intentionality from this
immediate world of sensation, are never adequate to their second intentionality.
It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight
in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance
in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave
in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the
perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the
immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay
in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.
He analyzes the development of human consciousness, from its
immediate perception of the here and now, to the stage of self - consciousness, the understanding that allows man to analyze the world and order his own actions accordingly.3 Following this is the stage of reason itself, understanding of the real, after which spirit, by means of religions and art, attains the absolute knowledge, the level at which man recognizes
in the world the stages of his own reason.
Whitehead risks this double crisis
in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely
in a flow of «
perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order
in our thought to fancy that we have an
immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).
It's a widespread
perception that the world is more and more one
in which people are orientated to
immediate gratification and don't know how to delay it.
The
perception of what is acceptable
in doctoral education tends to be based on personal experiences and those of
immediate peers.
A market that is steeply backwardated — i.e., one where there is a very steep premium for material available for
immediate delivery — often indicates a
perception of a current shortage
in the underlying commodity.
In today's chapter we focus on
Perception to help you better understand how to deal with
immediate...
In today's chapter we focus on
Perception to help you better understand how to deal with
immediate post-nuclear threats.
KP: Your visual repertoire negotiates the
perception of space challenging the human presence and hypostasis
in immediate relation to it.
Deriving its title from a book by David Foster Wallace, the show comprises an eponymous new video work exploring human
perception in the cold void of outer space, structured around interviews the artist conducted with NASA astronaut David Wolf about his experiences
in the
immediate cosmos.
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available
in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify or mediate the artist's
immediate perception of what he is looking at.
In its veristic details, «Slipped Wink» toys with our
immediate perception, but also bolsters Pigott's continued exploration of how human ego is translated into the inanimate object, such as a chair.
His works challenge our
immediate experience, which begins with sensual
perception and ends
in activity.
For the visitors, the
perception of space is a very
immediate experience when, by walking the length of the Line, they participate
in the relationship between space and body intended by the artist.
The current «deer
in the headlights»
perception that only
immediate action using current technologies can forestall the looming disaster is dooming us to the fate of the deer.
Key to the success of this policy is
immediate high - quality and tailored job - search support, access to suitable and affordable childcare, improved availability of jobs with flexible working hours from the start and the
perception of being better off
in work.