Whitehead needs to establish the fact that at least one type of
objectified entities are actual entities in order to escape the solipsism of the present moment, as he himself notes (PR 81/125, 152/230 -231).
Yet Whitehead still opts for realism, because he thinks we have direct awareness of how
these objectified entities have been changed by the time we perceive them.
Pure physical feelings
objectify the entities felt by their physical feelings, whereas hybrid physical feelings objectify by conceptual or impure feelings.
Raising questions on body politics and the systematic oppression of the body as
an objectified entity, the artists in the exhibition dismantle and redefine patterns for self - expression.
Not exact matches
Whitehead denies to what is «
objectified» any «formal» existence, by which he means, that which formally constitutes
entity.
As the analogue of «proximate matter» we have to take the
objectified other
entities, or more exactly the «physical» prehensions of them that are
objectified in the newly arising
entity.
In a concrete actual
entity conceived dipolarly, the one (creative subjectivity) includes the many (
objectified subjects) as parts.
So, if a satisfied actual
entity is
objectified (as it must be), it is a part in another process / whole.
In any case «creativity,» which takes the place of «primary matter» and which is supposed to be in itself just as indeterminate as the latter, constitutes the actuality of an actual
entity» — its reality for itself and finally, as an «
objectified»
entity, its reality for others.
Though some of these examples of things that become do refer to what happens within the internal life of one actual
entity, still others refer to relationships between
objectified actual
entities at transition.
In this way, all of the many that have been actualized, the complete multiplicity, of the cosmos (except immediately prior and noncontiguous contemporaries) is
objectified for each actual
entity with some degree of importance however minuscule (Religion 108 and Process 22, Principle of Relativity).
But the subject / superjects of many as simultaneously
objectified in one actual
entity is a spatial nexus, and abstracted from their necessary inclusion in a one, they are a multiplicity.
Of course a perspective on the epistemic situation of a given actual
entity A is available from the perspective of another actual
entity B in which A is
objectified.
One point of this story is that the monk thought his true self was a thing or substance external to his own experience, an
entity that could be
objectified and then analyzed.
Perception in the mode of presentational immediacy
objectifies the actual
entities «within one particular duration»: «the «presented duration»» (Process 321).
The objective datum is a further perspective under which that
entity is
objectified through one of its feelings (PR 353 - 56; 361 - 63).
Looked at from the point of view of its prehension of past occasions, an actual
entity (say, in the personally ordered society of actual
entities which constitute the «self» of a human being) can be viewed as conditioned by, caused by, the other
entities which it
objectifies.
Even in the case of the objectification of a single actual
entity, that subject is
objectified as object, and not as subject.
«A [simple physical] feeling belonging to this special case has as its datum only one actual
entity, and this actual
entity is
objectified by one of its feelings» (PR 245).
Hut the case is quite similar for Whitehead: the actual
entity is never prehended (
objectified) as a whole but according to one of its component prehensions.
An actual
entity in a personal society prehends itself in its immediate past along with prehensions of other
objectified past actual
entities.
It prehends the world from a certain perspective, one that can be determined from the relative fullness with which it
objectifies the other actual
entities it takes as its data.
While the
objectified facts are invested with a certain levity, no longer fully sedimented, the logical subjects as an indicative system, on the other hand, restrict the freedom of the proposition to apply to any actual
entity in absolute generality.
The soul that was thought about was not the soul that was thinking in its dynamic immediacy, but an
objectified, and thereby distanced,
entity.
On the one hand, the
objectified sheer matter - of - factness of actual
entities is lifted, leaving a sufficient quality of concrete givenness to allow the latter to function now as «indicators.»
To understand Yahweh was, of course, not to
objectify and localize him as an
entity to be observed.
A hybrid physical feeling is a feeling which
objectifies the actual
entity which forms its initial datum by means of one of this datum actual
entity's conceptual feelings.
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.
A new actual
entity does not select the feeling by which it will
objectify God.
Likewise, the objective datum Y of a new feeling X
objectifies its initial datum (the actual
entity B) for a new process of concrescence (the actual
entity A).
Thus, a new actual
entity «selects» the feelings by which it will
objectify past actual
entities only in a very restricted sense of the term «selects.»
In the case of a simple physical feeling X belonging to a new actual
entity A, the feeling Y by which X
objectifies the past actual
entity B is called the «objective datum» of X. Whitehead describes this second subphase in the following passage:
This feeling provides the new actual
entity with its subjective aim, and in turn the subjective aim determines how the new actual
entity will
objectify the actual
entities in its past.
Instead, God determines the feeling by which God will be
objectified by the new actual
entity (see PR 244 / 373f.).
By contrast, the feelings involved in objectification can express the way in which past actual
entities are
objectified as individuals.
Like any Whiteheadian actuality, the divine actuality prehensively
objectifies the concrete
entities of the world and gathers them into its own concrete, immediate experience.
(ii) Science restricts itself to abstractions that depend not on the full structure of an actual
entity, but on those elements of structure that an
entity inherits through its
objectified past.
Thus when we ascribe mass to an
entity, we are asserting a kind of limit on its dynamics.12 Bringing this back to the preprojective, we are saying that insofar as a high - grade society
objectifies a given nexus by virtue of the Category of Transmutation in the flattened form that is mass, the dynamics of that nexus are bounded, at least with regard to its extensive relations with the world.
An
entity not a part of the
objectified society, but of some other, may perceive the form of the society as an
objectified property of the society.
Hence, the
objectified gods stood in an ambiguous relation to that other primal religious reality that represented the apportionment to each
entity of its lot or place.
In a strand of really distinct actual
entities, these would necessarily stand in a subject - object relationship to one another, so that the
entity that perishes and is
objectified is a different
entity than that which is coming into being.
The same proposition can constitute the content of diverse judgments by diverse judging
entities respectively..., this requires that the same complex of logical subjects
objectified via the same eternal objects, can enter as a partial constituent into the «real» essences of diverse actual
entities.
As a result, Whitehead concludes that objectification is an abstraction that does not
objectify the actual
entity in its entirety (S 25).
The question, however, is that of whether from the standpoint of a given actual
entity, any other portion of the extensive continuum but its own, can be
objectified as atomized.
In «causal objectification» what is felt subjectively by the
objectified actual
entity is transmitted objectively to the concrescent actualities which supersede it.
In a sense, the «sign» bears a similarity to the eternally
objectified superject that allows the closure and repeatability of
objectified actual
entities in other actual
entities which are no longer their temporal contemporaries.
In regard to his doctrine of ingression, Whitehead distinguished three different ways in which an eternal object can function in the concrescence of an actual
entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some
objectified nexus, or of some single actual
entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445).
Unfortunately, the second principle (namely, that the «power» of one actual
entity upon another is simply how the former is
objectified in the constitution of the other) tells us little about the sense in which the former
entity can be said to be «
objectified» in its effect.
In Whiteheadian terminology this means that only past actual
entities which are devoid of subjective immediacy can be
objectified.
In Locke's phraseology the
objectified actual
entity is then exerting «power In this type of objectification the eternal objects, relational between object and subject, express the formal constitution of the
objectified actual
entity.