Sentences with phrase «initial subjective forms»

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But the subjective forms of the initial simple causal feelings of the subject are continuous with those of the data felt.

What this means is that the initial feeling derives its character, or subjective form, from the object felt, and insofar as it assumes the same form it reproduces the object: «In the conformal feelings the how of feeling reproduces what is felt» (PR 249).

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

The initial aim is derived from God, but although the character of the initial aim is of crucial importance to the becoming occasion, the fact that it is derived from God usually plays but a small role in its conscious subjective form.

Whitehead claims that a feeling can be analyzed into five factors:» (i) the «subject» which feels; (ii) the «initial data» which are to be felt; (iii) the «elimination» in virtue of negative prehensions; (iv) the «objective datum» which is felt; (v) the «subjective form,» which is how that subject feels that objective datum» (PR 221 / 337f.

There is the freedom of conceptual innovation in which novel corrective and developmental forms of definiteness emerge in the mental pole as potentiality for final causation, and there is autonomous self - causation in which a mutually determined synthesis of the physical pole and the mental pole modifies the initial ideal aim to become the subjective aim, which is the final cause.