With respect to perceptual events,
subjective form refers «to the complex patterns we are aware of in direct experience» (PW 127/136).
Not exact matches
Whitehead's unfortunate choice of the term «
subjective form» to
refer to the «how» of prehension may seem to suggest either a purely subjectivistic interpretation or an abstract formal character.
Subjective forms, however,
refer to the concrete mode or mood or quality of response.
Since one can not easily
refer to a passage not yet contemplated, all of the passage, not just those parts
referring to «data» or «
subjective form (PR 85) should be regarded as a single insertion.
However, the newer definition is a retraction of the traditional statement in its objective
form and now simply
refers to the
subjective context of the non-believer.
Every analysis and every detail resulting from determinate analysis has to be
referred to this
subjective form as the inner, unrepeatable peculiarity of the occasion in question.
The intensity of physical energy embodied by actual occasions is a function of the
subjective species of eternal objects, while the peculiar
form of the flux of energy
refers to the objective species, the mathematical
forms.
The two metaphysical aspects of the notion of «importance» were
referred to earlier: first, the unity — «
subjective form» — which results from the gradation of alternatives in terms of their intensity and, secondly, the sense of purpose itself — «
subjective aim» — which determines that gradation.