This mutual sensitivity of
subjective forms thus makes possible, indirectly, a reciprocal activity among the «contemporaneous» prehensions.
Not exact matches
Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and
thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the
subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular
forms of «social» legislation?»
Thus the qualitative characters («
subjective forms») of the prehensions (feelings, energies) of the past occasion are reproduced in the prehensions (feelings, energies) of the present occasion.
The integration of this experience is essentially determined by God's all - embracing, permanent
subjective aim (his aim for his ongoing self), which is to realize all possible
forms of definiteness and
thus to achieve an absolute intensity of experience (PR 345 / 523).
But if my tone of voice, facial expression, and other
forms of expressiveness indicate that I am anxious because of the weather, or elated or otherwise concerned, what is
thus expressed in the communication is the
subjective meaning.
Propositional feelings,
thus, have
subjective forms; but these
forms are only one aspect of propositional feelings.
Thus, if the analogy is to hold..., we should expect a doctrine of quanta, where the individualities of the occasions are relevant, and a doctrine of continuity where the conformal transference of
subjective form is the dominant fact.
«Consciousness» for Whitehead has a more restricted use applying to the
subjective form of particular types of intellectual feelings;
thus something much broader in Whitehead's conceptuality must be found.
Thus, in Bourgeois's work,
forms appear as powerful signs of a highly
subjective reality, as primal elements of emotion.