Granted that faith is meant to help an individual with
their subjective meaning, there is overwhelming «evidence» in the stories that people tell that explain why they have faith in what they do.
The relationship between the conscious awareness of a dream (and
its subjective meaning) and the physiological interaction of the brain's chemistry presents, he said, a «hard problem.»
It offers a methodological orientation that emphasizes
subjective meanings.
More generally, it has led to an approach to religion and ideology that is methodologically problematic because it requires analysts to probe
subjective meanings buried away in people's heads.
Nevertheless, the question remains of why a critical observer such as Weber was able, from his early interest in the Puritan ethic, to sustain the conviction that one could make reliable statements about
subjective meanings.
What he was getting were messages about
subjective meanings that were filtered through a very formalized, socially constructed set of cultural categories.
Consequently, it is not surprising, as we shall see in the next two chapters, that many approaches have turned away from
subjective meaning toward questions of symbolism and discourse.
It may be, therefore, that less attention should be given to the idea of
subjective meanings and more research should be devoted to the socially constructed categories used in discourse about these meanings.
This debate was crucial in distinguishing and relating scientifically objective history and the mythical interpretations of it expressing the divine and
subjective meaning of the same for the community of faith.
A further consequence of Whitehead's view is a different understanding of what objective and
subjective mean.
But if my tone of voice, facial expression, and other forms of expressiveness indicate that I am anxious because of the weather, or elated or otherwise concerned, what is thus expressed in the communication is
the subjective meaning.
Subjective meaning is what the communication reveals concerning what is going on in the personality that speaks.
What any communication reveals, not about the world, but about the person who speaks, is
subjective meaning.
Myth therefore employs
subjective means derived from the human imagination to describe a reality which utterly transcends consciousness, and which possesses an objective validity in its own right, quite apart from its effects on the disciples and witnesses.
Prove that objective morality exists without resorting to
subjective means.
But religion does have a continuing role to play, according to Habermas (here in agreement with Bellah), in providing personal integration, unity,
subjective meaning, and a unified self - identity.
It is not yet conceived as
the subjective means by which that final reaction is to be made.
I actually have a lot of empirical proof in the restored quality of life in my clients, but so much of what I do is discovered through
subjective means.
But concrescence also has
a subjective meaning; it states that every elementary event involves an experience.
Aside from research design biases, Fine also notes how social constructions of gender shape the situations people encounter, and
their subjective meaning.
However, each has their own
subjective means of ranking sites, using everything from Alexa scores, Twitter followers, Facebook likes, estimated traffic, inbound Google links and even subjective design criteria.
In order for those phrases in s. 31.3 to provide sufficient evidence of reliability: (1) they have to be given objective meanings, rather than
subjective meanings as determined by the operation of the electronic system itself; and, (2) be based upon authoritative standards.
But the Instagram data has the potential to dramatically shift the calculus away from the parties» dueling
subjective meanings to a societally objective one: The eggplant emoji is so frequently associated with photos of male genitalia that Instagram blocks users from hashtagging it.
In Facebook's endless quest to make your life «better» (where better has a very
subjective meaning), it has added a feature to its mobile app that will automatically play sound when a video starts.
The challenge comes when you try to define a winning culture, because it has
a subjective meaning to many.
Not exact matches
Valuation ratios are increasingly
subjective; they only
mean something insofar as you know how the future will unfold, he contends.
It's by no
means authoritative and absolutely
subjective to where I am or have been in my endeavors.
The latter now go by... Tronc X. Given that both expenses and revenues are interwoven between print and digital these days — and subject to all manner of highly
subjective «allocations» — those two divisions
mean less than the whole company numbers.
A lot has been said in recent years about empowerment... and what that
means, exactly, is very
subjective.
Sorry, I
meant to put a question mark on that: Dates aren't
subjective standards?
If you want to get
subjective and start making claims about «what the bible actaully
means», then the burden of proof rests with you.
It falls prey to contingent
subjective emotions and opinions, the word «love» is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to
mean the opposite.
When I use the word «
subjective» I
mean that which is defined by a person (subject) or people; when I say «objective» I
mean that which exists apart from any person or people, regardless of how or if that objectively existing reality might be known.
It is prevalent also in such «
subjective» fields as literature, where criticism is directed toward the delineation of categories of
meaning shared by most informed members of the field.
«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.
Also, while you may be able to «find»
meaning in life as an atheist, this
meaning can not possibly be anything more than personal (
subjective) wish fulfillment in denial of greater reality, that there is no
meaning.
I am less clear on the sense of the last sentence but one, but I believe that Whitehead
means that the quantitative emotional intensity of the entity's satisfaction must of course be related to the intensity of its drive toward value as furnished by its
subjective aim.
Lots of adjectives whose
meaning is incomprehensibly
subjective, such as «wetter» bass.
The result is that testing is always
subjective, which
means your biases affect how you choose to interpret the evidence, which in turn makes your conclusions unreliable.
A review of Kierkegaard's treatment of the temporal «moment of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger
means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple
subjective immediacy of psychic life.
=D (value,
meaning =
subjective, dependent on you wish to weigh it - so to speak;; is currency without value?
So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the
subjective truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only by virtue of the absurdity of its objective
meaning or ground.
Progress always
means change, and change is seldom easy, especially when we are dealing with
subjective and even sacred issues in our lives.
This is the
meaning of Whitehead's statement that emotion is never bare entertainment but is always accompanied by
subjective enhancement (PR 248).
If he did
mean to affirm that in God's consequent nature temporal occasions retain their own
subjective immediacy, then considerable speculative development would be required to explain it.
On the societal model, in particular, this
means that the occasion's own future, given in its
subjective aim, must be derived from the past.
Such merely
subjective or merely instrumental perfection is not what is
meant by the perfection of God.
But Whitehead
means something else by a «whole» (as an ultimate unit of reality) when he says it is «the singularity of an entity» (Process 21), or the unity of a subject (Category of
Subjective Unity.
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.»
Therefore
subjective aim is an unique appropriation of
meaning already constituted.