Sentences with phrase «subjective form»

This is the becoming occasion's determination of its own subjective form of response to its given data.

As it emerges it has its own particular subjective form, which controls the becoming of that subject.

They may retain their subjective role of being a means of experiencing by becoming included within a larger subjective form.

But since no two actual entities can share subjective immediacy, no two actual entities can have identical subjective forms.

God's experience of the world is essentially determined by efficient causation, by the conformal repetition of finite emotional experiences in subjective form (PR 345/523).

It is only as in the past of others, or «for others,» that an occasion is both a stubborn fact and an ambiguous entity, open to interpretation by subjective forms that future entities will assign to it.

If one relaxes the rigidity of Whiteheadian eternal objects, and interprets them as varying degrees of abstract feelings, one can have the full range of such feelings, both physical and mental, as subjective forms of prehensions as well as their objective data.

Later, he would declare that mathematical form does not even admit emotional subjective form for its feeling (AI 251).

Thus the occasion is reborn through the reenactment of its final subjective form to a life everlasting.

These hybrid physical feelings will include feelings of propositional feelings about the new occasion, and these in turn will include propositional feelings whose subjective forms include desire for realization.

The adumbrative quality of transmuted feelings is an enlargement of the adumbrative subjective form of simple causal feelings.

For Whitehead the physical prehension is the object inasmuch as it reenacts the same subjective form — or at least one aspect of it.

In this more fundamental mode, other actual entities are perceived, and the data are received not neutrally, but with emotional and purposive subjective forms of reception.

In short, I seem to have admitted that my essay was a meaningless or at best subjective form of argument from a discarded and discredited discipline.

It is the supreme expression of individuality: its conformal subjective form is the freedom of enjoyment derived from the enjoyment of freedom.

But the prehensions of each phase must be different from those of the other phases by virtue of different subjective forms, just as on Whitehead's view the prehensions of each occasion differ from those of each other by virtue of the same reason.

If prehensions are partial and require the whole occasion in order to have completely determinate subjective form, so much more do the earlier phases need the completed occasion to exist at all.

But the «subjective forms [«of the total objective datum»] are merely contributions to the one fact which is the subjective feeling of the one occasion» (Adventures 254, emphasis added).

With respect to perceptual events, subjective form refers «to the complex patterns we are aware of in direct experience» (PW 127/136).

Further, any actual entity involves many prehensions of objects and is essentially a process of synthesizing these various prehensions with their various subjective forms into a novel unity with one complex form.

In God the occasion experiences an enlarged and enlarging world, which contains new occasions as they come into being, but the occasion remains the same insofar as it experiences this enlarged world in the same manner as of old, by means of the one unique subjective form it decided upon.

But it is that unifying pattern clothed with emotion, with felt intensities derived from the initial subjective forms of its conformal feelings.

Two compatible subjective forms may be fused into a larger whole without altering the decision of either, by means of conceptual supplementation derived from God's infinite conceptual imagination.

To some extent this enlargement of perspective occurs in personal existence due to the overlapping of successive subjective forms.

The initial aim is derived from God, but although the character of the initial aim is of crucial importance to the becoming occasion, the fact that it is derived from God usually plays but a small role in its conscious subjective form.

Rather, the prehensions have public origins, the objective data; they have private subjective forms, based on the private aim of the actual occasion; and then the occasion, having unified its prehensions, passes back into publicity, providing data for new prehensions.

Second, it interprets the subjective aim of the actual occasion as arising more impartially out of hybrid feelings of aims (propositional feelings whose subjective form involves appetition) entertained for the new occasion by its predecessors.

Whitehead answers the question as to the relation between continuity and quanta on the basis of discrete occasions of human experience which inherit subjective forms conformally:

I question, however, whether every prehension obtained by genetic division has all the features of an actual entity» except its own completed subjective form.

This mutual sensitivity of subjective forms thus makes possible, indirectly, a reciprocal activity among the «contemporaneous» prehensions.

Whitehead introduces God's consequent nature for a number of reasons, one of them being that this integration of God's conceptual feelings with physical feelings makes propositions and consciousness as subjective form possible, and this makes it conceivable that God possesses consciousness.

It is from a shared culture that all her material is amassed and, given subjective form, her work is intended above all for collective contemplation and engagement.

«Thus insofar as the relationships of these feelings require an appeal to subjective forms for their explanation, the gap must be supplied by the introduction of arbitrary laws of nature regulating the relations of intensities» (PR 447).

DE: I think he would say that a thing's subjective aim perishes with it, but that its character as subjective form can be conformed to by the next in the chain.

There is a physical prehension of the datum according to a particular subjective form.

Moreover, it receives a great many different ways of feeling, as it feels the feelings of a multiplicity of past actualities, and it must synthesize all these into one final subjective form, the one final attitude it adopts towards its world (cf. AI 327).

RB: Would you want to say having the same subjective form is what individuates the chain, and differentiates one chain from another chain?

Accordingly, the primary experience of receiving with emotional and purposive subjective form the causal influence of other actualities tends to be only dimly illuminated in consciousness precisely because it is primary.

Or can one imagine that insofar as our universe is flooded with light from stars (suns), it is, for Whitehead, a plenum of actual entities whose subjective form is a complex eternal object of appropriate optical properties?

Such a prehension includes the awareness that others are prehending my actions according to their own subjective forms, which may involve feelings and ideals differing from or enhancing the multiple contrasts I am entertaining.

All prehension of past conscious thought depends upon a subsequent occasion's having a hybrid - physical prehension of these intermediate propositions as embodied in the objectified subjective form of the finished occasion.

This subjective form is determined by the subjective aim at further integration, so as to obtain the «satisfaction» of the completed subject.