Sentences with phrase «pure mode of perception»

Causal efficacy, Whitehead's other pure mode of perception, makes up for these deficiencies of presentational immediacy, but what it gains in relatedness and explanatory power it loses in vividness and sharpness of definition.

One root of cause of this splitting, which results in the exclusion of the spiritual, is a world view that emphasizes one pure mode of perception (presentational immediacy) over against the other pure mode (causal efficacy).

The first involves a spatial mismatch between the two pure modes of perception, presentational immediacy (PI) and causal efficacy (CE), in symbolic reference (SR).»

The two pure modes of perception consist in a direct recognition which can not be mistaken.

In ordinary experience the pure modes of perception rarely occur in isolation; they are normally «unified by a blind symbolic reference» (PR 180 / 273).

Whitehead in his empirical theory of knowledge has two pure modes of perception, causal efficacy and presentational immediacy, which in ordinary perception are combined in the mixed mode of symbolic reference.

It was shown that through the separation of the two pure modes of perception by the stilling of symbolic reference, Aurobindo's experience of Nirvana could be explained.

From a Whiteheadian perspective, yogic meditation involves the silencing of symbolic reference, so that the two pure modes of perception are experienced directly.

We shall propose that from a Whiteheadian perspective yogic meditation involves the silencing of symbolic reference, so that the two pure modes of perception are experienced directly.

Not exact matches

Whitehead's developed theory of the integration of pure and impure modes of perception is passed over.

«In order to find obvious examples of the pure mode of causal efficacy we must have recourse to the viscera and to memory; and to find examples of the pure mode of presentational immediacy we must have recourse to so - called «delusive» perceptions» (PR 121f / 186).

Through intuitive perception in the pure modes of presentational immediacy and causal efficacy this universal subjectivity could be experienced, the very heart of reality itself.

The pure perception in the mode of presentational immediacy without reference to causal efficacy could result in the experience of the objective world as illusion.