Most of
these past experiences of other selves will not be given at all to me, he argues.
I think of myself as remembering my own past experiences but not as remembering
the past experiences of other persons or of any other entities.
Not knowing how to learn from
the past experiences of others, and not knowing how to test their own ideas and learn from their own experiences, each generation of lawyers will make the same management mistakes as their predecessors.
Not exact matches
Your list
of credentials should probably include personal pet ownership — if not currently, at least in the
past — as well as
other pet - related
experience, including working at a pet food store, an animal hospital or
other animal - related business.
One
other notable feature
of Poloz's first appearance, according to TD chief deputy economist Derek Burleton, was a downplaying
of any speculation he'll be looking to target a lower Canadian dollar, given Poloz's
past experience with Export Development Canada.
As more companies begin to deliver remarkable products and
experiences to women, people
of color, and
other minority groups that have largely been ignored or underserved in the
past, they are responding with their support and loyalty.
The
experience backs up what a lot
of other independent developers have been saying — that Sony has over the
past few years become the most indie - friendly
of the console giants.
Explain why your academic skills,
past experiences or passion make you stand out from all
of the
other intern applicants.
The trend worries economists because new businesses play a vital role in creating jobs, improving productivity and spurring economic growth; some researchers believe the decline in entrepreneurship, and in
other measures
of economic dynamism such as labor mobility, could be part
of the reason the U.S. has
experienced such a slow bounceback from the
past two recessions.
I think we've done a reasonable job in developing rules and regulations to ensure firms are prepared to withstand the
other types
of shocks we have
experienced in the
past.
One
of the reasons they, and
others, have cited to lower your expectations is because
of the high returns we've
experienced in the
past.
One
other interesting tidbit from my investing
experience: if I had invested strictly in CDs with a Beta
of 0 for the
past 15 years, $ 1 would be worth $ 2.02 today.
On the
other side, their bad
past experience may make them hesitant to even try your type
of product again.
In the event that it is determined that we have in the
past experienced an ownership change, or if we
experience one or more ownership changes as a result
of this offering or future transactions in our stock, then we may be limited in our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and
other tax assets to reduce taxes owed on the net taxable income that we earn.
During the
past few months, Outotec has not
experienced any further reduction
of customer demand from an already low level, but the company has seen some additional project delays in copper and
other base metals.
Together with
other factors — such as strong underlying demand based on demographic trends, favourable employment conditions, and the large amount
of work still in the pipeline — this points to the current downturn in dwelling investment being relatively mild compared with
past experience.
One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the
past couple
of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on
other assets, have been higher than those in a number
of other countries, particularly those which
experienced a recession and a collapse
of share prices in the early part
of this decade.
As was noted in the previous Statement, the current pace
of household credit growth in Australia is high, relative to both the
past and the
experience of most
other developed economies.
One
of the important lessons I learnt from
past recessions, from personal
experience and that
of others, is as follows:
6 I do not want to foreclose
other possibilities such as that Jesus» presence is mediated by God or is that
of the risen Jesus who is now enjoying new
experiences in «heaven,» but this essay deals only with the re-presentation
of past events.
He believed that his general doctrine
of each
experience taking account
of the entire
past favored the view that there are direct or unmediated prehensions
of other than contiguous events.
And if we add to that, the millions
of living atheists, agnostics, and former Christians who have had similar
experiences to mine and would agree with my conclusions, and add to that the millions
of non believers and former believers in the
past, some
of which have left in writing a sampling
of their conclusions, it would seem to me that our personal
experience and perspectives cancel each
other out, and all you are left with is your belief in the words written in your bible.
Amid the way
of personal existence, we identify with and cling to
past and future
experiences in our own life - stream, accentuating our own continuity over time, but often at the expense
of also identifying with
other people and the rest
of the world.
«47 Both the questions
of creativity and truth are modes
of God's givenness to human
experience, and it is through the problem
of relating to our
past selves, the
past selves
of others, and the
past of the universe that this question becomes focused.
To cut short an argument, I will affirm that all beauty depends upon relation
of an
experience to something
other than that
experience, and
other than relation merely to the
past experience of one and the same person or individual.
the belief on the existence
of the devil was concieved by theologians
of the
past thousands
of years, there was no
other way
of explaining the bad
experiences of people in the
past because we were not educated yet to the kind
of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part
of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part
of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part
of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality
of the universe ahead
of us, The
experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part
of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point
of not believing the practices
of the
past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part
of their learning process.
Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the
past nor in the future
of any
other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any
other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious
experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.
The dominant occasion
of experience is related not only to the
other occasions jointly constituting the physical organism, such as the entities making up the brain, but also to
past dominant occasions
of experience in the same organism.
This capacity to learn from
experience in man, as in
other animals, is primarily bound up with the interpretation
of signals and with the ability to bring
past experience to bear on present interpretation.
In
other words, it is my awareness
of the
past which has been efficacious in bringing me to the present and in providing the material (so to say) upon which by my several decisions (and the actions consequent upon them) a future is opened up for me to know and
experience.
This remainder is far larger in human
experience than in most
other occasions
of experience, but no event is wholly determined without remainder by its
past.
According to the theory
of special relativity, only the
past can be
experienced, contemporaries have no influence on each
other.
This shift, which first affected college youth, has spread to
other youth and also to large sectors
of adults, to the extent that some denominations
of moderate and conservative theology have also been
experiencing membership decline in the
past few years.
The soul in each momentary occasion prehends not only its environing brain but also its own
past occasions
of experience and the
experiences of other souls.
He notes that «
past correlated
experiences heighten vicarious arousal because they make what happens to
others Predictive
of what might happen to oneself, (emphasis added).
Is there first
of all an
experience that then relates to the body, the
past,
other people and, the physical environment in these ways?
Then the
other's statement calls my attention to a possible relation between my immediately
past occasions
of experience and anger.
Further, her ability to understand what she hears as a word that is a part
of a sentence entails relations to many
other people and
past experiences.
We cite Cobb again: «My belief is that Whitehead shows the possibility
of the unmediated prehension by a present entity
of other entities in the
past, even the distant
past, and that the
experience of some Christians seems to involve this kind
of experience of Jesus» (FC 148).
This becomes clear when Hartshorne continues in a vein that runs through realistic epistemic claims
of any sort, including the Whiteheadian: «On the
other hand, if what I have in present
experience is not the
past itself but a newly created substitute or image, then the door is open to solipsism
of the present moment, and only arbitrary fiat will keep that door closed» (italics added).
Causal efficacy, on the
other hand, while being more massive as the conformation
of our
experience to the reality
of the
past as it impinges upon the present, is also vague and a fairly undiscriminating mode
of perception.
Whitehead maintains that language functions as a mediator
of present
experience to both the
past and
other experiences (MT 33).
Thus Brightman distinguishes
other selves (within which category he includes one's own physical make - up) from inferences about the
past and future
of one's own self because these inferences concern immediate
experiences (either actual or hypothetical)
of one's own self alone.
He continues «they -LRB--- my
past and future ---RRB- are inferred as what has been or will be given to a self which
experiences itself as the same as the
other self
of the specious present.»
Hartshorne (Dec. 22, 1938) develops his argument that in
experience there are gradations
of awareness, such that in
experience «faintly given is the whole
past, including the
past of other individuals, particularly those composing the body.»
Each momentary
experience is what it is by virtue
of the way
others have been in the immediate
past.
The correctness
of the epistemological analysis
of experience according to the subject - object schema must not be allowed to lead to an ontological view
of objects as different in kind from subjects in any way
other than the difference between
past and present.
Freedom is an indetermination in the potentialities for present action which are constituted by all the influences and stimuli, all «heredity and environment,» all
past experiences, an indetermination removed only by the actuality (event,
experience, act) itself, and always in such fashion that
other acts
of determination would have been possible in view
of the given total conditions up to the moment
of the act.
I added that middle part about convincing
others, because in my career as a computer systems builder, I often remembered painful
experiences and their causes, wanting to avoid future repeats... but was often not able to do so, because
others either could not understand the level
of complexity involved enough to want to avoid the pain, or because they were not involved in that
past history and therefore could not remember it.
The primacy
of our relation to
past and future occasions
of our own
experience in relation to
other experiences is not absolute.