Sentences with phrase «subjective elements in»

Two biologists and one philosopher argue that the psychical, or mental, or subjective elements in reality are more fundamental than the physical, material, or objective elements.
(Though to call them visions» is to emphasize unduly the subjective element in the experience, and to raise a whole series of modern questions.
They have a subjective element in that it does not make sense to speak of values apart from valuing subjects.
Reader - response criticism thus accounts for the different understandings of and reactions to the «same» text by different readers by claiming a necessary place for the subjective element in reading.
Since these special events must be received and understood as being revelatory, there is of course a subjective element in revelation.
Every happening can yield knowledge; but knowledge depends in part on the subjective element in our encounter with the world.

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Once you get in there and look, you find things like human factors and other subjective elements that are opportunities for improvement.»
If the situation is such that it truly compromises in an irresistible way the liberty of the person, then he is in the grace of God, since the subjective elements for mortal sin are lacking.
In this passage the deductive argument, which treats each element of the situation as a separate event, has been overshadowed by a fabric of subjective relationships among elements treated as constituents of one complex process.
The sense in which a prehension is a concrete element divided out of an actual entity requires the prehension to be partial with respect to its subjective form.
These contrasts add to the subjective intensity of the passage of the Bill as an actual event and function as dynamic elements in a narrative.
Despite the existential element in the proclamation, it is the historical testimony of those earliest this - worldly witnesses, and not their subjective faith, that distinguishes Christianity from many other faiths.
«Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 166).»
It also accepts Hume's doctrine that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 253).
Religious experience has an organic structure which can be analyzed in terms of the physical and conceptual feelings correlative to the generality of values perceived, and the subjective forms appropriate to each feeling element.
The subjective form in a particular actual entity, he tells us, unlike the abstract eternal object, is an «element in the private definiteness of that actuality» (PR 444), and the subjective form can not be torn apart from its particular subject without becoming a mere universal (PR 354, 356).
It is a special element in the subjective form of some feelings.
«E.g., that the feelings which arise in various phases of a concrescence be compatible for integration; that no element in a concrescence can finally (in the «satisfaction») have two disjoined roles; that no two elements can finally have the same role; that every physical feeling gives rise to a corresponding conceptual feeling: that there is secondary origination of variant conceptual feeling; and that the subjective forms (valuations) of the conceptual feelings are mutually determined by their aptness for being joint elements in the satisfaction aimed at.
In the twentieth century, the Austrian school of economics — notably Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek — became famous for stressing the subjective element of economic life, particularly in personal action, and more especially in the personal act of enterprisIn the twentieth century, the Austrian school of economics — notably Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek — became famous for stressing the subjective element of economic life, particularly in personal action, and more especially in the personal act of enterprisin personal action, and more especially in the personal act of enterprisin the personal act of enterprise.
Technology is the objective side of human action whose origin and raison d'etre is found in the subjective element: the worker himself.
On the other hand his control and efficacy operate not by arbitrary (that is to say, independent and «omnipotent») overruling, nor by being the only active elements in the occasion; but by the persuasive molding of new possibilities, by redirecting the pressures of prior actualities, by providing new opportunity for advance, and by offering the «lure» which evokes from each occasion in the ongoing process the movement towards satisfaction of its «subjective aim».
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).
Hence, as Leclerc implies, an actual entity's prehension of a common element of form is not simply a subjective «perception» of that form for its own concrescence, but simultaneously an active correlating of itself with other actual entities in that society so as to constitute a new reality, a higher level of existence and activity.
This introduces an entirely new element, which completely transcends natural science, as can be seen, for instance, from the fact that the affirmations of natural science are intrinsically transsubjective in character — that is to say, they are entirely independent of man's subjective understanding of himself.
Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).
The new unity goes deep, It implies a continuity in origin of the subjective elements of individuals which we recognize so clearly in our human experience.
In regard to his doctrine of ingression, Whitehead distinguished three different ways in which an eternal object can function in the concrescence of an actual entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445In regard to his doctrine of ingression, Whitehead distinguished three different ways in which an eternal object can function in the concrescence of an actual entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445in which an eternal object can function in the concrescence of an actual entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445in the concrescence of an actual entity:» (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445in the definiteness of some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445in the definiteness of the subjective form of some feeling; or (iii) it can be an element in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445in the datum of a conceptual, or propositional, feeling» (PR 290 / 445).
All these instances of form fall under the «objective» species of eternal objects — the mathematical «Platonic forms» — or the «subjective» species: «an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of a feeling.
Later on, he relates it to Hume's doctrine «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience.
Lévy - Soussan believes that in order to be successful, adoption must lead to a psychological filiation that «allows for a nexus of the three elements that are basic to any society: the biological, the social, and the subjective dimensions specific to human beings.
From the very beginning it belongs to the self - creating entity as its «subjective aim» and is an essential element in its «satisfaction» (PR 150/227).
In virtue of this common aim these elements participate in an overarching subjective unity directed toward that goaIn virtue of this common aim these elements participate in an overarching subjective unity directed toward that goain an overarching subjective unity directed toward that goal.
This purposive element Whitehead affirms as present in every occasion and is what he calls its «subjective aim.»
Ian T. Ramsey speaks of a «cosmic disclosure, an element of transcendence in both the objective reference and in our own subjective response and commitment.»
For Merleau - Ponty, all the elements in an environment influence a person in some way, but a person's subjective attitude toward the elements conditions those elements, and the person's decision about his environment feeds back into the environment in such a way that the surrounding world would not be the world it is without the conditioning subjectivity of the surrounded decider.
Elements of this orthodoxy were retained in subsequent changes such as in the next big movement, known as pietism, which emphasized the subjective aspect of individual salvation as contrasted with intellectual acceptance of doctrines.
A prehension has several elements: an actual entity which is felt or prehended by another entity; the entity which prehends the first actual occasion; and the «subjective form» (PR 338), or unique way in which the second occasion prehends the first one.
About the subjective aim of God's consequent nature Whitehead says: «His primordial nature directs such perspectives of objectification [in his consequent nature] that each novel actuality in the temporal world contributes such elements as it can to a realization in God free from inhibitions of intensity by reason of discordance» (PR 88, italics added).
To them, the religio - scientific inquiry of the history of religions is an important tool to develop an adequate philosophy of religion, which transcends the regional and subjective elements involved in all religious systems.
There is a third group who hold that the history of religions does not take seriously enough the subjective elements involved in the study of various religions.
All elements, including the subjective aim, undergo reciprocal modification in the concrescive activity.
Individuals make subjective connections between different elements,» explained Stella - Marie Paradisis, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Montreal and lead author of the study.
This where the most subjective element of photography comes in — how your eye interprets the quality of color, the photo's sharpness, and so on.
What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.
Perhaps I am a cinic, but are the subjective elements only in the magazine and not online to make sure I also buy the magazine?
There is a third, more subjective, element to an intrinsic value calculation that can be either positive or negative: the efficacy with which retained earnings will be deployed in the future.
Following a different course, Brenda Miller's Nesting Congruents series (1980) investigates cubic and architectural space, but through the medium of photography and with the subtle introduction of subjective elements such as an occasional body standing in a doorway.
Based on the subjective memory of testimonies from victims, Argentinean artist Marcelo Grosman's «Menor 14 — 18, # 6» (2013) provides elements of different mug shots in a large - scale digital composite photographic series entitled «GUILTY!»
Whatever the form in which her works exist they become observations about existing protocols, as well as subjective elements looking for a fundamental transformation.
These blurred boundaries offer a subtle reminder, acutely relevant in this context, that science involves subjective elements, and that art plays a critical role in the production of historical knowledge.
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