Sentences with phrase «pragmatic value»

Also, what Whitehead says about «physical purposes» seems quite applicable to this «pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction»:

By confronting the traditional concept of painting with pragmatic values and suggesting a playful usage of the artwork, he also undermines ideas of the untouchable exclusivity of art.

Unfortunately, the media's need for sound bites and traffic - generation often supersedes providing pragmatic value to the job - seeking audience.

(i) it has the character «given» for it by the past; (ii) it has the subjective character aimed at in its process of concrescence; (iii) it has the superjective character, which is the pragmatic value of its specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity.

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.

Another way of arriving at the same conclusion is to note that Whitehead explicitly identifies the superjective nature as «the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (PR 135).

«The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (PR 135).

The body has some pragmatic value for life in this world, but no value whatsoever for the afterlife.

This meant that it was given meanings and placed in relation with other elements of experience according to principles of association and interpretation spontaneously generated in the unconscious life independently of pragmatic value.

And third, we intend to evaluate the pragmatic value, in terms of the task of ministry, of Kaplan's idea of God and that of process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

Love is a Christian virtue; tolerance, for all its pragmatic value, is not.

God's «primordial nature» is the concrescence of a unity of conceptual feelings; his «consequent nature» is his physical prehension of the actualities of the evolving universe; and his «superjective nature» is «the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances.»

Yet for all its pragmatic value and its intellectual triumphs, the famous mechanistic image of the universe, of which they were largely the creators, lets us down in one major respect.

But instead of seeing there the expression of its suprarational character, irreducible to this rational proposition, that is to say, the appearance of a fact truly revealed, he sees there only the expression of an imperfect construction, which will demand further reductions and which has none but a pragmatic value.

But science can leave its metaphysics implicit and retire behind our belief in the pragmatic value of its general descriptions.

It's seems almost stupid to write «there is a pragmatic value in trying to actually win games» but, well, there we are.

Your question is biased, the actual question should be: what is the pragmatic value of forbidding nudity?