The key feature that distinguishes contributory negligence from assumption of risk is whether the plaintiff had
a subjective awareness of the risk posed and consented to it.
Still, he is confident that the process of building on these algorithms may one day explain the ultimate riddle of the brain — how sensory data gets transformed into
a subjective awareness of reality.
Not exact matches
Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence
of contemporary existentialism on the centrality
of the «
subjective» feelings and
of self -
awareness in human experience.
He lists four distinct analyses
of time in Western philosophy:» (I) time as a space - like extended dimension, or as an actual series; (2) time as recurrent periodic motion; (3) time as progressive maturity or age; and (4) time as a distention
of the soul,
awareness of the sequences
of states and events that make up our
subjective experience» (WPP 65).
From this perspective, the therapist can then share with the patient an alternative
subjective aim, or else an
awareness of the extent to which negative prehensions might be excluding relevant factors
of the patient's experience.
In the case
of the woman strolling beside the Empire State Building on lunch break, one might say that whereas God does not convey to her the information that there is in fact a piano falling her way, he could shoot into her consciousness via
subjective aim an
awareness of the possibility that a piano just might be falling her way.
The relationship between the conscious
awareness of a dream (and its
subjective meaning) and the physiological interaction
of the brain's chemistry presents, he said, a «hard problem.»
It is not to be understood as an objective fact or a
subjective feeling but as an uncompleted dialogical reality, the
awareness of an address from God.
It is indeed the end, so far as your and my
subjective selfhood is concerned, with conscious
awareness, with the capacity consciously to act and to choose, and with everything else that is found in our mundane world
of space and time.
For on his own principles if there were not some kind
of awareness of causal efficacy, there would be no warrant for making statements about it: «Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in
subjective experience» (PR 166/253).
The attempt to prove that there is a universe
of objects and forces independent
of my
subjective awareness will be self - defeating because any evidential statement capable
of taking me beyond my Cartesian subjectivity will presuppose that the world exists.
But is such participation also «
subjective,» so that the human agent has a conscious
awareness of it?
That this first step is an error is indicated by Searle himself in his allusion to the bipolar (private and public) character
of conscious
awareness, which prompts one to ask whether most scientific approaches to the problem
of consciousness are vitiated at the outset by a failure to leave open the possibility
of an indissociable bipolarity in key ideas (such as public - private,
subjective - objective, and body - mind).
It would be the
awareness of the pure energy
of reality as it is constituted by
subjective becoming.
In any event, an
awareness that certain polar contrasts (such as
subjective - objective, public - private, body - mind, organism - machine, feeling - thought, and perhaps nature - culture) are indissoluble, yet fundamental, is one
of the most important aspects
of Whitehead's philosophic thought.
The
awareness of intuitive realization
of the
subjective immediacy
of concrescence then is the
awareness of the energetic force present in all existents and as such serves the same ontological function as consciousness in Aurobindo.
The
subjective aim is therefore a function
of God conceived as a total actuality, including his consequent
awareness of the actual world.
To Hartshorne it seems perfectly natural and obvious that
subjective human
awareness should be taken by all men as the ultimate clue to the nature
of the universe:
Still more
subjective is my opinion that even in the physical sciences there is a dawning
awareness of the need to wrestle again with the questions on which Whitehead cast so much light.
The questionnaire consisted
of three sections covering
subjective preferences, routines, and practices related to the perioperative handling
of EA, POD, POCD, and
awareness.
Thorough understanding
of rules and regulations, technical expertise, human resources and training, reliable administration, commercial
awareness (and the
subjective factors
of yacht operations here)
The performative nature
of the paintings and the artist's self -
awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs
of Jackson Pollock's dramatic painting process — images that have defined our understanding
of his active bodily presence.18 However, in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal
of the terms
of abstraction that Pollock and others
of his generation perfected — i.e., the expression
of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by
subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.
Occupying the Museum's three main galleries, the exhibition examines artists» embrace
of and fascination with technology, as well as their prescient
awareness of the ways in which technology can transform
subjective experiences.
His work focuses primarily on the nature
of awareness and
subjective experience.
In order to reduce the scope
of application
of the Directive, the Advocate General incorporated a
subjective element to the concept
of the controller (arguing that a controller must have «
awareness»
of the existence
of the personal data it was processing).
In particular, the Advocate General's incorporation
of a type
of subjective mental element to the concept
of controller (as the controller must have «
awareness»
of the existence
of personal data) departs from the current definition
of controller.
Although the line between the two concepts can be fuzzy, the Court
of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence in the record for a finding
of subjective awareness in this case.
Boulanger's paragraph 27 is referred to in, Peracomo Inc. v. Telus Communications Co., 2014 SCC 29, (paragraph 57) in defining «willful misconduct» as being, «doing something which is wrong knowing it to be wrong or with reckless indifference»; «reckless» means «an
awareness of the duty to act or a
subjective recklessness as to the existence
of the duty.»
As I read it, Correia indicates that in the context
of the employment relationship, recklessness should be understood as proceeding in the face
of subjective awareness that harm
of the kind that resulted was substantially certain to follow.