Any subsequent occasion would therefore assimilate it in a great variety of intermediate forms, and would have to recombine them to establish its own particular feeling for that contrast.
When an event becomes an objective datum in the emerging constitution of
some subsequent occasion, its symbolic form is interpreted anew, in relation to other symbolic objects, but always in conformity with the conditions established by its own actualization.
The aesthetic character of reality means that every worldly value - experience contributes to the divine totality partly through the beauty that it actualizes and partly through its contribution to the beauty of
subsequent occasions.
How, then, do
subsequent occasions prehend this objectification of their predecessor, if not likewise through the field or, more specifically, through that minute portion of the field which constitutes their own regional standpoint (PR 80 / 123f)?
The latter add significance to the former; they provide that subjective intensity with which actual entities enter into the constitution of
subsequent occasions.
Yet, as students of later reform movements can testify, the original contrast remained as a potential alternative, providing what Whitehead termed a «lure for feeling» in
subsequent occasions.
Particular past experiences, especially if they were emotionally intense, continue for a long time to affect the emotional tone of
subsequent occasions.
The superject is «thrown beyond» the concrescent unification of feelings; it is its concrete unified outcome, capable of causally influencing
subsequent occasions.
Each occasion of our experience is immortal because it becomes datum for
subsequent occasions both in our own route of occasions (our own selves) and in that of other occasions.
God's causal efficacy for the world is like the efficacy of completed occasions for
subsequent occasions and not like that of phases of the becoming of a single occasion for its successors.
Creativity does not explain why they occur or what form they take, but if they occur at all and regardless of what form they take, each will be an instance of creativity, a fresh unity formed as a new togetherness of the antecedent many and offering itself as a member of the multiplicity of which
any subsequent occasion must take account.
Over against Ford and me, Hartshorne and Cobb claim that the subjective immediacy does not perish and is available for being prehended by
subsequent occasions.
If the value itself is diminished, that diminution is due to the limited aims of
subsequent occasions, which we saw above does not apply to God.
But then nothing is left for
subsequent occasions to prehend.
And the present moment, after perishing, will become the objective datum to be perceived in the «memory» of
a subsequent occasion.
Preceding occasions act causally upon
subsequent occasions, and the
subsequent occasions react sympathetically to the preceding ones.
In perishing, the occasions of experience are not relegated to absolute nothingness but instead are assigned an «objective immortality» in the experience of
subsequent occasions.
Each perished occasion is felt or «remembered» in a distinctive way by
subsequent occasions.
And leaving themselves open, after perishing, to being experienced by
subsequent occasions, they pass on the past to their successors.
It does not coerce the immediately
subsequent occasion to conform to its own structure or quality of feeling in any absolutely rigid fashion.
When one entity causally influences another at the fundamental level of cosmic occurrence, it does so by perishing and handing itself over as an objective datum to be appropriated in an indeterminate way by
subsequent occasions.
The initial aim of
subsequent occasions in the living person will be affected in part by the way in which earlier occasions have modified their aims, but it includes also an element of autonomy.
And through the regnant society's channeling influence, «Owing to the delicate organization of the body, there is a returned influence, an inheritance of character derived from the presiding occasion [whichever occasion of the regnant society has just concresced] and modifying
the subsequent occasions through the rest of the body» (PR 166).
The structure of actual occasions as perceptive, as actively inheriting and synthesizing the past, and leaving themselves open to synthesis by
subsequent occasions, gives us a basis for affirming the continued influence of occasions on
subsequent occasions in the cosmic process.
In perishing, occasions are not consigned to total nothingness but are granted a kind of «immortality» as elements in the experiences of
subsequent occasions and groupings of occasions.
As remembered in the subsequent life of Israelism - Judaism, it is so overwhelmingly and powerfully the Covenant event that it tends to draw to itself, like a giant magnet,
subsequent occasions and actions by which Covenant is further defined, redefined, expanded, and modified.
Theories that posit the logic of binary oppositions, on the other hand, fail to accommodate the Whiteheadian «principle of relativity» according to which a subject constitutes itself Out of its prehensions of its past world, and then in turn functions objectively as a datum in the past world of
all subsequent occasions (Whitehead, Process 214; 43).
But mentality can discriminate either by ruling out, contradiction, or including, contrast, As mentality broadens, what were initially contradictions become contrasts.8 Mentality grows by the transmutation of contradiction into contrast, The increase in mental functioning begets in turn greater depth of contrast, which in its own turn further promotes mental functioning.9 This explains to some extent why it is not necessary to increase LSD dosage on
subsequent occasions to promote greater effects.
He pledged on many
subsequent occasions to change, to listen, to consult.
On many
subsequent occasions, the fungi ditched their photosymbiont partners, the researchers report in the 20 June issue of Nature.
Giving the Tea Rooms the highest of accolades — «the award» for their personal favourite date spot — they've been back on
subsequent occasions since their first visit.
While no film can ever be the same when viewed on
subsequent occasions, this will surely prove an extreme case in point.
On two
subsequent occasions the efficacy of the thyroxine in controlling the dog's aggression was demonstrated.
In a 1998 study, less than 8 % had developed stones again within a 4 year period (although a few cats developed new stones on multiple
subsequent occasions).
This allows us to identify you on
subsequent occasions when you arrive on this website.
The court's provisional view was that when dealing on
a subsequent occasion with a further offence, the sentencing court should impose an appropriate concurrent sentence, be it determinate, indeterminate or extended, depending on the circumstances.
The court stressed that a definitive answer need not be arrived at within the context of this particular case, so the point remains open for argument on
a subsequent occasion.
I always suggest people should respond to rejection — to consider what has happened and then work to improve their chances on
subsequent occasions.
«After that tete - a-tete, the Twilight twosome (Breaking Dawn Part 2 hits theaters in November) have met on
subsequent occasions, another source confirms.
Not exact matches
For, without these structured environments for the emergence of
subsequent generations of actual
occasions, there would be no effective guarantee that the present and the future would be continuous with the past.
In a succession of
occasions, the initial state is revived less and less in each
subsequent microgeny, eventually to recede into long - term memory beneath conscious accessibility.
Rather than change every instance of actual entity in part III to actual
occasion, Whitehead simply stipulates: «In the
subsequent discussion, «actual entity» will be taken to mean a conditioned actual entity of the temporal world, unless God is expressly included in the discussion» (PR 88 / 135).
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 any case, it wasn't I who challenged David Daniell on that
occasion but Miola himself in his
subsequent paper, and it was their confrontation on the opening day that made the conference so memorable, with a clear victory on «the Catholic side.»
It is simply to refuse to take Whitehead at his word, and what Whitehead says, in effect, is that each superject is repeated in every
occasion whose origination is
subsequent to the existence of that superject (PR 208, 211, 364).
It is thus the nature of every
occasion of experience to be first a subject constituting itself through the prehension of past events and relevant possibilities and then an object which enters into the constitution of
subsequent events.
The
subsequent reading of the letters in the primitive Christian communities were
occasions for full exposition and expansion of the sketch of the material in the letters (46 - 47).
And since God's consequent nature is prehended by
subsequent actual
occasions, these facts influence the world.
He also faces the disappointment of the disparity between the initial ideal he proposed for any
occasion and its
subsequent faulty actualization.
Each actual
occasion is physical, accordingly, in the twofold sense that it begins with a physical pole, which means as an effect of prior events, and concludes by becoming a causal ingredient in the physical poles of
subsequent events.