Lorenz found goslings imprinted on the first moving
object they saw which suggest attachment is innate and not learnt.
Not exact matches
It cites numerous instances in
which chickens were forcefully hit over the head with various
objects, including a metal scraper tool and a broomstick, and details how they mishandled the hens by «roughly grabbing them by a single wing and violently shoving them into garbage cans» —
which can be
seen in the video.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is also experimenting with augmented reality technology and is partnering with Google for an Ancient Egypt exhibit in
which visitors can use the museum's smartphones to
see special digital graphics and information overlaid on certain
objects, like a mummy's sarcophagus.
Instead of putting
objects in a blender, the video would show a Windows 7 phone, an iPhone 4, and an Android phone being grilled, to
see which one would last longest.
7 What Lynch
objects to is two kinds of imagination, the univocal and the equivocal, the one
which flattens out all the density and variety of historical complexity through the imposition of an idea (the allegorical and didactic mentalities) and the other
which sees everything as completely diverse and unrelated to anything else (the fideistic and the autonomous mentalities).
We
see that the miracle of
which he was the
object leads to his conversion.
Can't you
see the parallels here and the rhetoric that Reema is supporting
which her fellow Muslim women feminists would immediately
object to???
In these quotations we can
see that the envisagement of the eternal
objects,
which was referred, in the first Lowell lectures, to the underlying substantial activity, (
see earlier in this ch.)
(1) The concrete universal as the individual
seen in conjunction with the thought structure implied in it, that
which makes it an intelligible unity, is neither a naively conceived sense -
object, nor an abstract logical universal.
He then utilized terminology that for decades informed the basic stance of process theology on the nature of true power, though, as we shall
see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the world by an act of suffering with the kind of power
which leaves its
object free to respond in humility and love.»
The value of faith stems not from the irrationality of its
object but from the humility that is required to
see the truth
which is accepted, and the courage required to act upon it.
As Ambrose, the fourth - century bishop of Milan, told the recently initiated: «You must not trust, then, wholly to your bodily eyes; that
which is not
seen is more really
seen, for the
object of sight is temporal, but that other eternal,
which is not apprehended by the eye, but is discerned by the mind and spirit» (Ambrose of Milan, De mysteriis, III, 15).
What I «
see» are physical, tangible
objects in my world
which I interact with.
I can therefore
see an
object in so far as
objects form a system or a world, and in so far as each one treats the others round it as spectators of its hidden aspects
which guarantee the permanence of those aspects by their presence.
Of course a Catholic who looks eastward finds nothing to
which he
objects, because what he
sees is the Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils (but» here's the rub» for him, this means the first seven of twenty - one).
(You can
see this from the way in
which the light waves from the whole
object come into each part of the hologram.)
See, for example, the quotation already cited in
which James indicates that relations of
objects are known through our feelings of relations.
Now, with that in view —
which I think is a reasonable objection to a document
which wants to be
seen as, above all things, «reasonable» — why would I
object to the whole thing as «obscuring the Gospel»?
As we shall
see in the next section, Whitehead's principal version of symbolic reference becomes his means of relating images or sensa as directly perceived to the
objects which cause them.
On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an
object as a matter of the individual eternal essence
which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in
which one state of things takes over from another (
see RB 278 - 284).
As we have
seen, what the examination of perception brings to light for Whitehead is an occasion of experience
which is a self - creative process, a subject synthesizing past
objects into a novel unity.
Seen in the light of Buber's dialogical philosophy, this is nothing other than the attempt of subject -
object, or I - It, knowledge to dismiss the ontological reality of the I - Thou knowing from
which it derives its own existence.
«The «primordial nature» of God is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual feelings» (PR 134),
which «achieves, in its unity of satisfaction, the complete conceptual valuation of all eternal
objects» (PR 48) or pure forms, thereby generating the entire structuring of pure possibility.4
Seen in terms of his everlasting aspect or consequent nature, however, the only way God is directly related to the World, the converse is true.
He is, rather, a very complex structured society
which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring
object)
which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of
which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 —
see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,»
which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society
which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).
Galileo
saw a swinging pendulum as an
object with inertia,
which almost repeats its oscillating motion; his predecessors, inheriting the Aristotelian interest in progress towards — final ends, had
seen a pendulum as a constrained falling
object,
which slowly attains its final state of rest.
One final comment: The assumption of protopsychic matter is no more revolutionary than our epistemological knowledge that all
objects which we
see have no color, because color only arises in sense cells and brain.
Rather than being
seen as a subject with its own set of rights, the child has become an
object whose parents get to determine
which set of rights it has.
This is because eternal
objects can not convey a sense of the individuality of the past actual entities
which are being objectified by a new actual entity (
see PR 229f.
It is that experience
which is identical when we
see a collection of
objects reflected in a mirror and a corresponding collection through an open window frame.
Other creation myths have their
object formed out of created things (i.e. they are made of physical matter known to man) where as God has never been
seen which is true to this day.
See ibid., Appendix C, «
Objects and Events,» pp. 456 - 69,
which explores Thornton's appropriation of Whitehead's categories.
«The best view is by no means the closest view... we consciously stand back and create distance in order to look at the world, i.e., at
objects as parts of the world: and also to be unembarrassed by the closeness of that
which we wish only to
see; to have the full liberty of our scanning attention.»
Such different ways of conceiving it ought of themselves to arouse doubt as to whether it possibly can be one specific thing; and the moment we are willing to treat the term «religious sentiment» as a collective name for the many sentiments
which religious
objects may arouse in alternation, we
see that it probably contains nothing whatever of a psychologically specific nature.
For whoever so judges either
sees in prayer merely a psychological phenomenon,
which can become the
object of interesting analysis, or he arrogates to himself God's own right.
Understanding that emotions take
objects and are dependent on beliefs allows us to
see that we can to a large extent pattern and form our emotional lives, and that we can — and should — choose between those emotions
which the world encourages and those to
which the Holy Spirit leads us.
There you
see the way in
which a life
which may have been disorganized, self - centered, thoughtless, and indifferent to others finds a center in
which it can discover the meaning of existence, presented in the
object of affection.
But given their unification in this manner, along with the guiding interest in numbering the
objects concerned, the totality of
objects does in fact appear to us as one intuitive whole in
which the unifying relations («collective combinations») may be
seen to be exactly what they are.
Hence, I will only point out very briefly some of the ways in
which Whitehead's metaphysical ideas, and his related understanding of the
objects of physics, form a foundation for
seeing inorganic, living, and conscious organisms within one scheme of thought.
You take pleasure in
seeing objects which do not raise your mind to God: refuse yourself this pleasure, and turn away your eyes.
What frightens all reasonable people is the fact that we
see about us, in our own neighborhoods, some of the same factors
which, existing in greater degree, made that
object lesson actual.
It embraces all media and even includes «
objects»
which may be
seen as expressive of an idea or political position.
Similarly, when we look into the depths of the clear sky, what we actually
see is an unspecifiable total ground of movement, from
which objects emerge.
Thus it is hard to
see that the inexhaustibility could lie in the impossibility of physically producing something
which can be thought of; rather, it must lie in the nature of the
object which is being thought of or instantiated.
Whenever we perceive physical
objects, we can be certain of one thing: we are
seeing that
which God is not.
Any presence
which the spiritual in art evokes is something
which we are unable to
see in its entirety, something we are unable to make into an immediate
object of our knowledge.
For the third group, who take symbolism seriously, religion is
seen as a system of symbols
which is neither simply objective nor simply subjective, but
which links subject and
object in a way that transfigures reality or even, in a sense, creates reality.
People's conditionning in consumerism in subtle ways is changing the theological concept of faith, so that in certain theologies God is
seen not so much as the
object of service and obedience but as a convenient device by
which one's religious needs are met.
One advantage that a broader duration will have over the briefer durations with
which it is contemporaneous is its capacity to sum up successive briefer duration; making them simultaneous.22 We have already
seen that this is Bergson's explanation of the manner in
which the successive «vibrations» of
objects around us are transformed by us into stable, unchanging surfaces.
Now in chapter 27 we are in the court before the sanctuary, in
which the dominant
object is the great altar (
see 40:29).
It
sees the truth of any sort of
object (say an apple) not as that
object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on
which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).