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.
Not exact matches
Prehensions maintain concreteness and yet have a
subjective form and aim, and may
involve emotion, purpose, valuation, and causation (PR 28»).
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.
Consciousness is found chiefly in the
subjective form of intellectual feelings, and «intellectual feelings, in their primary function, are concentration of attention
involving increase of importance» (PR 416).
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.
His evolution
involved the
subjective side of life as well as the objective; that is, negatively, we are not to think of great inexplicable gaps in the
forms of
subjective existence any more than in the
forms of biological organisms.
One occasion, therefore, can
involve a number of
subjective forms.