Sentences with phrase «own immediate experience»

He still shares with Binx Bolling an amused wonder in the presence of experience, still somewhat divided of mind as to the dependability of immediate experience, a condition suited to the novelist.

Importance for self now refers not simply to the immediate experience but also to future experiences in the personal society of which the present occasion is a part.

Suppose one did have an immediate experience of the experiencing self as such or of immediately preceding momentary units of experience as such.

The regenerate Milton moves through a self - annihilation actualizing the death of God in immediate experience.

When man breaks through, he has an immediate experience of his freedom; after his decision has been made, he has an immediate experience that God's hand has carried him.

Mascall does not deny that there is such a thing as authentic, immediate experience of God, but he does deny that this is the normal or general basis for believing in God.

Second, the description of «Inner Light» reflects many peoples» immediate experience of the Holy Spirit, including both George Fox and Augustine.

(c) It is the function of theology to universalize its «own contribution of the immediate experience» (RM 77).

Awareness exercises can help us rediscover immediate experiencing and get beyond the use of words and intellectualizing to pretend, keep distance, control, hide.

An immediate experience actually «structures itself» from within its own prereflective depths (p. 140).

Persons do not first exist and then enter into relations with others; rather, they emerge out of relations with others as outcomes of the contextual self - structuring of immediate experience.

Personal existence is not the only way immediate experience can structure itself; rather it is one among many possible ways.

Rather, it can mean that the world, in its creativity and intrinsic value, composes God's immediate experience, God's own true self.

In its volitional aspect, immediate experience is an act of decision, an act of cutting off certain possibilities for response to an immediate situation in the process of actualizing others.

Rather, gaining explicit knowledge from religious traditions allows one to reflect on the earlier immediate experience and to conclude that therein lay an «unthematized knowledge» of God.

In this regard, it must be emphasized that whatever is given for the immediate experience of an actuality must be immanent in, and a constituent of, the actuality; for, in the organic philosophy, «experience is not a relation of an experient to something external to it, but is itself the «inclusive whole» which is the required connectedness of «many in one»» (AI 299).

Every present can be viewed in its innocence, but the point of view of innocence is important chiefly because it acknowledges the fact of immediate experience.

Our immediate experience of relationships, derivative, actual, and effective, is founded on physical feelings.

Brightman distinguishes between the Given (with an upper case «G») and what is given in immediate experience (lower case «g»).

In overlooking this dimension of immediate experience Hume rendered inductive inferences radically unsupportable.

The result always does violence to that immediate experience which we express in our actions, our hopes, our sympathies, our purposes, and which we enjoy in spite of our lack of phrases for its verbal analysis

In the very next paragraph he says: «The only source of evidence for God is immediate experience, what I have elsewhere called the «datum self»....

It should be noted that this right understanding of the vector characteristic of immediate experience is asserted to be «the key to the process of induction,» not a solvent for the practical problems of inductive inference.

These theories do elucidate items of immediate experience, such as pointer - reading, red - shifts, and fossils.

«Dignity,» says this priest, «has been my most immediate experience of church.»

But the ideas developed go far beyond anything implicit in every person's immediate experience.

A stronger meaning of empiricism seems to be expressed by Whitehead's statement that «the elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6).

But the sensus fidelium to be consulted is the sense of those with immediate experience of the subject at hand» in this case, homosexuals.

For a thought to «elucidate» immediate experience does not necessarily imply that the thought was already implicit in experience, perhaps down deep, merely awaiting a Socratic mid-wife.

They are, therefore, like Whitehead's, attempts to elucidate some aspect of immediate experience.

For the occasion values just this togetherness of actuality, cutting off all alternative possibilities in the decisiveness which is its immediate experience.

This account of awareness is empirical because it is based on the immediate experience of the causal efficacy of the physical world; it is radically empirical because it claims to sense, in addition to the data for the five senses, the objective embodiments of values, and it senses these values «intuitively» — that is, physically by, for example, a sense of aversion or a sense of attraction.

An immediate experience, in its living occurrence at this moment — that, to this rationalist's way of thinking, is a full fact, in comparison with which all other things are pale abstractions.

I had the feeling that I had really connected with God and was in direct communion with him and that I and was in his presence and was having the most direct and immediate experience of God by becoming his living vessel, by ridding myself of selfish thoughts and going beyond self.

They have a simple, secular base that may be misleading, for they point beyond the immediate experience.

Such experience is likely to cause both thoughts and emotions in reaction, but the immediate experience comes first.

These mythical terms are the most adequate symbols of reality because the reality we experience constantly suggests a center and source of reality, which not only transcends immediate experience, but also finally transcends the rational forms and categories by which we seek to apprehend and describe it.

Freedom and duration are facts of immediate experience.

Like any Whiteheadian actuality, the divine actuality prehensively objectifies the concrete entities of the world and gathers them into its own concrete, immediate experience.

To dismiss both problems, Bergson simply begins with freedom as a fact of immediate experience.

In doing so we are following Whitehead's belief that philosophy is the «elucidation of immediate experience.»

If, on the one hand, this assertion is construed objectively, as asserting that God is the eminent object of experience, because the only individual other than ourselves whom we experience directly and universally, it can be shown to be true both literally and necessarily, on the understanding that such immediate experience of God can become knowledge of God, or even experience of God as God, only through the mediation of concepts and terms.

All of our most immediate experience of other occasions remains unconscious, qualifying consciousness only with a vague sense of derivation from the body.

But all these intellectual operations, whether they be constructive or comparative and critical, presuppose immediate experiences as their subject - matter.

The reason this effect followed upon Jesus» life and death was a matter for reflection and speculation, as we shall see; but the effect itself was a fact of immediate experience.

Conformity of our concepts and representations to the evidence of immediate experience.

Hence the Christian insistence that it is God's Spirit which communicates truth is really a way of bringing this axiom into focus by relating this immediate experience of the Ultimate to the doctrine of God.

True to process thought, Screwtape implies that the world is a process of becoming in which transience and activity are fundamental; he further indicates that the only eternal aspect of the Future is the question of potentialities which may or may not be actualized; and he indirectly supports Whitehead's supposition that the justification of any system of thought lies in its ability to organize and elucidate immediate experience.

My empiricism is a liberal one in that I accept reflective observation or introspection as a form of immediate experience on a par with the outward looking form of sense - awareness which I describe.

«The elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6).