We maintain that a Prolog program as a symbol for a Whiteheadian
proposition presents possibilities and lures for a concrescing entity.
Not exact matches
These same essays do go on to offer conscious conceptual accounts of some of the
possibilities presented by the texts they study, construing the texts as expressions of «
propositions.»
The lure for feeling is some
possibility inherent in the situation that the
proposition presents to the concrescing subject.
Although a Whiteheadian
proposition may
present to a concrescing entity a
possibility for its actual situation as a lure for feeling, the
proposition does not determine mechanically and causally the final satisfaction of the entity.
And because the
proposition is not given as a finished fact, but
presented as a way it could be (the optative quality preserving the indeterminacy unique to eternal objects), a
proposition is a real
possibility.
I do not think the
proposition that future
possibilities as causal in the
present is contestable, though some will object to the use of the word God in relation to the reality of future
possibilities and their lure upon the world.
Making paintings that are not determined by process as an end in itself, the four painters
present a different
proposition and an exciting rebound about the
possibilities of abstraction today.