One of the basic categories states that «from
each physical feeling there is the derivation of a purely conceptual feeling» (PR 40).
Yet conceptual feelings are always derivative from physical feelings.7 This principle is expressed in the fourth Categoreal Obligation: «From
each physical feeling there is the derivation of a purely conceptual feeling whose datum is the eternal object determinant of the definiteness of the actual entity, or the nexus, physically felt» (PR 26 / 39f.).
From
each physical feeling there is the derivation of a purely conceptual feeling whose datum is the eternal object exemplified in the definiteness of the actual entity, or of the nexus, physically felt.
Not exact matches
There are a lot of benefits to feeling lonely just like there are a lot of benefits to physical pain, but if one can avoid chronic pain you want to do
There are a lot of benefits to
feeling lonely just like
there are a lot of benefits to physical pain, but if one can avoid chronic pain you want to do
there are a lot of benefits to
physical pain, but if one can avoid chronic pain you want to do that.
It's almost as if the people who genuinely believe this are closeted masochists... they can only
feel good about themselves or their lives if
there's a threat of
physical harm and / or punishment in some way, shape or form.
Don't assume what you see,
feel, taste, smell or hear is all
there is to your
physical reality.
There is no doubt that they have always in the feast of Easter Night celebrated the real, and
physical body of Our Lord: «
feel my hands and my side, that it is Myself indeed, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see Me to have».
God's so - called primordial conceptual envisagement could never have occurred prior to all
physical feelings since
there can not be conceptuality except as it grows around an inherited multiplicity of previous, determinate specifications which establishes the potentiality of the moment's aim.
No matter how remote an actual occasion may happen to be in the causal past,
there is a simple
physical feeling of it even if it comes into being in the first second of our expanding universe.
There is an order - isomorphism between the following two sets: the set (ordered by later) of the actual occasions in the causal past of a given subject actual occasion, and the set (ordered by earlier) of the simple
physical feelings in the process of concrescence of that subject actual occasion.
There is still, however, the same threefold character: (i) The «primordial nature» of God is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual
feelings... (ii) The «consequent nature» of God is the
physical prehension by God of the actualities of the evolving universe... (iii) The «superjective» nature10 of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances.
Therefore even though the
feelings in the process of concrescence are not in
physical time — even though
there are no space - time distances between them — they still can be temporally ordered.
However this problematic question is answered,
there can not be a simple
physical feeling of a future actual entity.
Let us assume that
there are two durations that satisfy the following three conditions: (1) One is later than the other; (2) they do not have members in common; and (3) the set containing all of the actual entities from both durations is a nexal set.20 In that nexal set,
there are chains of actual entities, linked together by simple
physical feelings, that span the entire universe.
The
physical prehension as conformal
feeling, we have said, reproduces the object by assuming the subjective form of one of its prehensions, but as vector it is, and remains throughout the «life» of the subject, an essential relation to that individual object as other, as
there and then.
Hence he thinks Whitehead could only justify his belief that
there are hybrid
feelings of noncontiguous entities by showing some very fundamental difference between hybrid and
physical feelings.
If
there were only the derivation of possibilities from
physical feelings, possibility could never rise over achieved actuality.
Physical feelings, we are told, are «vectors» insofar as they «
feel what is
there and transform it into what is here» (PR 133).
Since he concedes only contingent «practical negligibility» with respect to
physical feelings, he obviously does not have to show any profound difference of hybrid
feelings from
physical ones in order to hold that
there may be less negligible hybrid
feelings of noncontiguous occasions.
There are two mentions of «
physical feeling» in the antecedent stratum of C +: 84.4, which is part of a C + insertion in C, may be a non-technical use of the term before the technical contrast between various
physical and conceptual
feelings was introduced.
«E.g., that the
feelings which arise in various phases of a concrescence be compatible for integration; that no element in a concrescence can finally (in the «satisfaction») have two disjoined roles; that no two elements can finally have the same role; that every
physical feeling gives rise to a corresponding conceptual
feeling: that
there is secondary origination of variant conceptual
feeling; and that the subjective forms (valuations) of the conceptual
feelings are mutually determined by their aptness for being joint elements in the satisfaction aimed at.
In this case
there is a third
feeling of mutual destructiveness... This is the
feeling of evil in the most general sense, namely
physical pain or mental evil, such as sorrow, horror, dislike.»
The world was created so that even in the most
physical of places, which is a place that hides the presence of G - d so that it can not be seen or
felt, G - d's presence will be
there.
It is wise for the minister to encourage even those who are
feeling relatively well to have a
physical checkup to ascertain if
there are less obvious organic problems which need treatment.
But Whitehead has also shown that
there is a more basic dimension of all experience, what he calls perception in the mode of causal efficacy or
physical feeling.
Whether
physical feelings are only of contiguous occasions with all other causal efficacy of the past mediated through these, or
there are also
physical prehensions of noncontiguous occasions, is a purely empirical question.
It is these
physical feelings that make us so sure that
there is a real
physical world, composed first of our own bodies and then of other
physical entities that act upon us.
Thus along the route of the life - history
there is a chain of contrasts in the
physical feelings of the successive occasions....
Thus
there is little hope for our recovering a
feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about
physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.
See also Process and Reality, where Whitehead states that in the consequent nature
there is «fullness of
physical feeling....
In the first phase, positive
physical prehensions — «
feelings» — literally incorporate the past actual world in the becoming of the new act of concrescence: «Feelings are «vectors»; for they feel what is there and transform it into what is here»
feelings» — literally incorporate the past actual world in the becoming of the new act of concrescence: «
Feelings are «vectors»; for they feel what is there and transform it into what is here»
Feelings are «vectors»; for they
feel what is
there and transform it into what is here» (PR 87).
However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that
there «be a
feeling of complete equality on both sides;
there must be no interference with mutual freedom;
there must be the most complete
physical and mental intimacy; and
there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).
I
feel there is something so solidly true about this, even in spite of the obvious denials of it, the
physical proofs that it ainâ $ ™ t so.
But if we recognize concrescence to be a complex activity interweaving both the
physical feeling expressing efficient causation and the conceptual
feeling effecting final causation, then
there can be an increased scope for efficacity.
While the former interpretation in terms of occasions may make better sense with respect to a larger context,
there are three reasons for preferring the latter interpretation in terms of the
physical feelings to be found within the occasion:
Of course,
there are no
physical feelings without subjective forms, and no subjective forms without subjective immediacy and subjective aims, and
there is no subjective aim without some primitive flash of unconscious mentality.
The consequence of an actual occasion's failure to introduce novelty is that when the conceptual
feelings are reintegrated with the
physical feelings from which they were derived
there is the preservation of the dominant types of inherited order.
Our attention is heightened because
there is an increase of mental
feeling, and this in turn procures a greater depth of
feeling in general by virtue of the fact that the contrast with
physical feeling is increased.
When anybody is in a job that has come to
feel unbearable, and they are not happy, and they KNOW that if they keep doing that job, it is going to harm
there actual
physical health - they do the right thing by leaving that job.
But
there's also a
feeling I have that Balotelli will find his boots next week, considering we don't exactly have the most
physical defence to deal with him..
If they can indeed overcome this
physical and mental obstacle when they face Bayern, Arsenal would rightly
feel as though
there would be nothing stopping them from really making a run towards the final.
- If the LO is in good health (meaning the crying is not due to a disorder or some sort of
physical pain) and if all of his other needs are met: he is fed, changed, does not need soothing or entertainment, try holding the LO in a loving embrace and allowing him to just cry while you validate his
feelings and let him know you're
there.
because
there aren't too many «healthy» options for hair replacement and you
feel like people are judging you based on this one
physical trait.
However we have lost any form of intimacy both emotional and
physical over the last five years and are both
feeling frustrated and depressed but too scared to discuss it as neither of us want to face the consequences of another failed relationship and so
there seems no answer to our issues at this point.
For a parent to respond to their child with sensitivity and attentiveness — even when, at times, it presents many challenges —
there needs to be a recognition on the parent's part that the child needs to
feel safe and secure, be nurtured, listened to, and have close
physical contact.
Actually,
there was a poster on here who said she
felt uncomfortable with showing
physical affection to her children for precisely that reason.
Most postpartum doulas are a natural at this, but you will want to ask her how she
feels about hospitals and working with the infrastructure
there, as they will be taking on all the medical needs while the doula covers the emotional,
physical, and logistical needs.
There is no pain —
physical or emotional — that scares me — I am comfortable with it all; I have either
felt it myself, heard about it, witnessed it, and helped others move through and heal from it.
There are a large group of families who are more comfortable with having a child above the age of 3 or 4 years old as they
feel they can more adequately «identify»
physical, cognitive and personality traits and characteristics.
Based on my own experiences, I
felt the internet was great for a course as
there are times when finances or childcare challenges don't permit going to
physical classes yet with the invention of the net art can be done from the comfort of home but still with others through an online community.