Conclusions: This study produced the T - CMDQ with good psychometric properties, presented the first formal validation of the CMDQ and provided useful insights on the cross-cultural adaptation process
of a subjective data collection tool which was originally developed in English, into the Turkish language.
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of subjective data on the opposing counsel, judge, and on the overwhelming data on fees, hours, and costs
Any data set that only looks at data from after 1970 is guilty of the scientific crime
of subjective data selection.
they then go on to explain the occurrence
of the subjective data of perception by treating them as instances of law - like regularities of types of objective physical occurrences.
Not exact matches
In this light, purchasing something and then asking for a refund because it didn't meet
subjective standards sure seems like an outdated method
of buying and selling, given the encroachment
of real
data.
Although some people complain that credit scores are unfair, turning
subjective judgments into a single number, it's a system based on an overwhelming amount
of historical
data.
Depending on the scope and purpose
of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (
data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and
subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.
Wallace said there is an ocean
of data that creates security and content issues, and that requires the
subjective perspective from a human being to decide which pieces
of data or content make it to the smaller pool that is widely shared.
Putting this list together was a combination
of art (experience +
subjective bias) and science (big ass
data).
Except as otherwise noted, the Compensation Committee's executive compensation determinations are
subjective and the result
of the Compensation Committee's business judgment, which is informed by the experiences
of the members
of the Compensation Committee as well as the input from, and peer group
data provided by, the Compensation Committee's independent executive compensation consultant.
It is saved as evidence under the category
of «
subjective data»
The doctrine
of the philosophy
of organism is that, however far the sphere
of efficient causation be pushed in the determination
of components
of a concrescence — its
data, its emotions, its appreciations, its purposes, its phases
of subjective aim — beyond the determination
of these components there always remains the final reaction
of the self - creative unity
of the universe.
«The
subjective aim at each phase provides the
subjective unity
of all the
data at that phase;
subjective unity at every phase means only that the
data are compatible for synthesis, not that they are completely integrated.
The examples given above entail that the subject prehend the past experience in terms
of its content or objective
data as well as its emotion or
subjective form.
To a large extent the new
subjective form is a reenactment
of subjective forms in the objective
datum, so that there is a flow
of feeling from the objective side to the
subjective side
of each entity.
The judging subject feels the appropriateness, or inappropriateness, vis - a-vis its
subjective aim,
of a proposed qualification
of its
datum.
But the «
subjective forms [«
of the total objective
datum»] are merely contributions to the one fact which is the
subjective feeling
of the one occasion» (Adventures 254, emphasis added).
None
of the
data we've collected explains why the blob between your ears is producing a
subjective experience.
Translated into Whitehead's terminology, this statement becomes: «the inherent meaning
of the initial
datum is appropriated by the becoming occasion in accordance with its
subjective aim.»
But to the extent that such
data are experienced or prehended by later occasions, they are already immanent in them, and they are so even before there is any conformal reproduction
of subjective forms.
But the
subjective forms
of the initial simple causal feelings
of the subject are continuous with those
of the
data felt.
Mays does not comment on the remark (PR 35) that a
subjective form is how that subject prehends its
datum, the manner
of prehension including various emotional and attitudinal characteristics.
The initial
datum, which is that actual entity prehended, is already an abstraction from the full, living,
subjective immediacy
of that occasion's process
of becoming.
Since one can not easily refer to a passage not yet contemplated, all
of the passage, not just those parts referring to «
data» or «
subjective form (PR 85) should be regarded as a single insertion.
On the
datum theory (Q), the concrescence had its underlying unity in terms
of its initiating
datum, and the subject was the
subjective aspect
of this objective
datum (early sense).
Each experience in this series is a
subjective process
of feeling many
data and synthesizing them into a complex experiential whole.
Initially, in the Gifford's Draft, the name we shall give to Whitehead's writings, largely from part II, which conceive the subject as the
subjective aspect
of the
datum from which concrescence begins, 5 a few anticipations
of subjective aim can be discerned.
The subject was the
subjective side
of objective being, but what is the being
of the whole now that the original
datum has been shattered into a multiplicity
of data?
There is secondary origination
of conceptual feelings with
data which are partially identical with, and partially diverse from, the eternal objects forming the
data in the primary phase
of the mental pole; the determination
of identity and diversity depending on the
subjective aim at attaining depth
of intensity by reason
of contrast.
The principle is that in regard to the presentation
of subjective aims, God has to «speak» to each actual occasion in its own «language,» that is, at its own level, in a manner harmonious with the character
of the sort
of data which are in general operative in the aesthetic synthesis which is the concrescence
of the actual occasion in question.
Such a miracle would involve the suspension
of the laws
of nature at the level
of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language»
of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character
of the
data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence
of such occasions admits only
of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness
of the character
of the past, then God has no leverage via
subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences
of such primitive actual occasions.
The philosophy
of organism seeks to describe how objective
data pass into
subjective satisfaction, and how order in the objective
data provides intensity in the
subjective satisfaction.
The method is realistic, not idealistic: Whitehead remarks that instead
of describing, in Kantian fashion, how
subjective data pass into the appearance
of an objective world, he describes how
subjective experience emerges from an objective world.
Our developed consciousness fastens on the sensum as
datum: our basic animal experience entertains it as a type
of subjective feeling.
This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity
of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm,
subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature
of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question
of the status
of the past, the problem
of how the past is given as
datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question
of a ground for truth claims about the past.
In this regard, a proposition is indeed «theoretical,» but in the deeper understanding as a lure endeavoring to fix the
subjective form which clothes the feeling
of the proposition as a
datum.
In affirming this intimate experiential source for the knowledge
of man the
data of objective research are not rejected, nor are the gates opened to uncontrolled
subjective vagaries.
But the later occasions probably can not eliminate the decision made about them from their objective
data or avoid some conformity with the
subjective form
of the deciding occasion.
The
subjective form
of a feeling is the manner in which the subject feels its
datum (see PR 23 / 35).
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.
But in more sophisticated actual entities, in entities higher up the scale
of organic being which inherit positively a richer and more variegated set
of data from the past, the responsive, supplemental phase is a process
of sorting out the
data, modifying and reorganizing it to arrive at a complex unity
of subjective feeling.
But although negative prehensions eliminate their
data from inclusion in the internal constitution
of the new actual entity, they contribute their
subjective forms to the total «emotional complex»
of the final satisfaction (PR 41f.
They are the relation
of the
data of the past to the present and the
subjective aim.
Originality (and hence life) occurs»... when the
subjective aim which determines its process
of concrescence has introduced a novelty
of definiteness not to be found in the inherited
data of its primary phase.»
There is a physical prehension
of the
datum according to a particular
subjective form.
In their moment
of occurrence they are
subjective and as they complete themselves they become objective
data for other events.
Another meaning
of idealism, which I call epistemological or
subjective idealism, is that when we experience something, have it as immediate intuitive
datum, it is nothing but a quality
of our own mental state (Berkeley's or Locke's idea or Hume's impression).
Rather, the prehensions have public origins, the objective
data; they have private
subjective forms, based on the private aim
of the actual occasion; and then the occasion, having unified its prehensions, passes back into publicity, providing
data for new prehensions.
Every occasion
of experience arises in an initial phase in which there are initial
data and the initial phase
of the
subjective aim.
We are often exhorted by scientists and philosophers alike to accept the material given to us by sense perception as though it is the rock - bottom foundation
of our knowledge
of the physical world, Simultaneously we are told to refrain from coloring neutral sense
data over with our
subjective wishes and teleological desires.