Sentences with phrase «predicative pattern»

The baby here becomes the logical subject» of the proposition and the cry of distress the «predicative pattern» (PR 393).

The indicative character of logical subjects disciplines the scope of the predicative pattern; they enjoy the function as «food for possibility» and enable the proposition to refer to the actuality of the world, to existential particularity.

To recapitulate: the two subjects embraced by the proposition, the logical subject in a potential predicative pattern and the prehending, e.g., entertaining subject; the two correlative conditions for the truth and falsity of propositions, the fact that they both «can» and «must» be true or false; the fact that a proposition is a «real possibility» for an «entertaining subject,» gives to the proposition its fundamental trait: according to Whitehead, a proposition is a lure for feeling.3

Quite simply, a proposition is true when the logical subjects do in fact exemplify the predicative pattern, or differently stated, when a member of the proposition's locus admits the proposition into feeling in such a way that the predicative pattern actually conforms to the indicative logical subjects.

The particular facts function no longer as «factors,» but become «bare its,» that is, function as logical subjects with a hypothetical relevance to a predicative pattern now potentially determinate of these logical subjects.

The intrinsic togetherness of the indicated state of affairs as logical subject and the assigned predicative pattern in their potentiality for realization is phenomenologically distinct from the eventual truth or falsity of the proposition.

Rather, in the unity of the proposition, actual entities assume the form of «logical subjects» and eternal objects are transformed into the «predicative pattern.»

The restrictive abstractness of the predicative pattern, and the abstract definiteness of the indicative logical subjects provide the necessary indeterminacy and determinacy for a proposition to be true or false.

The proposition is the potentiality of an assigned predicative pattern finding realization in indicated logical subjects (PR 24/35, 186/283, 257f / 393f, 261/398).

The logical subjects, however, are not capable of doing more than indicating how the proposition could be realized: if the logical subjects to which the predicative pattern refers could, in themselves, make the proposition «tell tales» as to its ingression, it would be to cast the world's lot in advance, it would be to prescribe exhaustively creative unfolding and thus vitiate creativity.

An art work embodies such a proposition (or, in the case of music, a predicative pattern only2), and the proposition (or its part) is the real meaning of the art, distinguishable from the physical artifact itself.

In a proposition a predicative pattern is asserted either to be, or not to be, in whole or in part, exhibited in some logical subject or subjects.

Propositions are not primarily for judgments of truth or falsity, but for feeling (PR 283), Propositions are lures for feeling in that they involve an actual entity's (not necessarily conscious) decision for or against the value of some predicative pattern.

A proposition is not simply that fusion or «contrast» of predicative patterns and logical subjects, for it does not «contain» only one subject, i.e., the logical subject.

Not exact matches

An interactional game of ping - pong that centers around criticism, indignation and defensiveness, and ultimately disengagement (the research of John Gottman has shown how these negative patterns are predicative of divorce).