Sentences with phrase «obvious elements of experience»

The requirements of system coherence are met by including all obvious elements of experience and by integrating them consistently throughout the model, Perhaps Whitehead's concern receives more definition as viewed from the negative side.

It is in terms of the second of these criteria that most philosophies exhibit misplaced boldness: «Failure to include some obvious elements of experience in the scope of the system is met by boldly denying the facts» (PR 9).

The movement of descent, from the universal principle down to concrete reality, is of special importance in avoiding the pitfall of speculative «inadequacy,» in which «failure to include some obvious elements of experience in the scope of the system is met by boldly denying the facts» (PR 6/9).

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The element of truth in this view of the supernatural is the obvious fact that religious experience is only possible to beings with mental or spiritual capacities, i.e., to human beings.

«Speculative philosophy,» writes Whitehead, «is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element in our experience can be interpreted,» but they «are not dogmatic assertions of the obvious; they are tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.»

3 The obvious critical point to make of Whitehead here is to indicate that his statement that science is true for each percipient is to claim to know something of the experience, qua scientific, of each percipient, and hence to have admitted an element of transcendence into the very statement of the problem.

The elements of his mixed cultural background and life experiences are embedded in his artistic practice, albeit not always in obvious ways.

MM: If your idea of being «discriminated against» consists of someone implying that adopting certain hipster lifestyle elements make one look silly, then it's obvious that you have never experienced (or even seen) actual discrimination.