Sentences with phrase «subjective notions of»

Abstract This article describes a generalized approach to measuring subjective notions of quality.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

That folks need to invoke subjective notion of their preferred deity's nature only underscores that the alleged absolute is an absolutely contrived post hoc argument.

Throughout the course of this paper I shall argue that the proper interpretation of «relative» as it is used in this text bears not on the subjective notion of an object's relation to a knower but on the objective factor of the object's own relations.

In both cases it should all be about that subjective notion of what's truly deserving.

That work required me to develop metrics that jibed with our subjective notion of quality.

Not exact matches

One can deny the validity of such analogy only if one rejects the notion that events are initially and primarily formulations of subjective experience.

There is an important difference between Husserl and Whitehead on this notion of subjective aim which they both share.

Hence, in the general sense in which the notion of actuality is tied to the notion of self - realization, the superjective existence of an occasion is as actual as its subjective existence.

Be that as it may, Santayana would have little truck with any notion of the «loss of subjective immediacy» and the «objective immortality» of an actual entity (see especially ED 264 - 265).

It is the subject which aims at balance and complexity; the notion of a conceptual feeling of «subjective aim» is yet to come (in T8).

For my part, when I look at the way events unfold in the world, I do not see any evidence there of the kind of divine activity called for by the Whiteheadian notion of God's consequent nature weaving itself across his primordial nature and then returning the «superjective» vision back to the world in an operative, effective manner through the shaping of subjective aims.

At least this is the idea we propose to explore, particularly in terms of the closing pages of Process and Reality, for we are persuaded it offers a more fruitful way of conceiving the preservation of subjective immediacy than the notion of a disembodied soul can provide.

This brief summary of fundamental notions is sufficient to permit the introduction of the problem of the status of the past.2 The universe is a realm of perpetual perishing, a realm where actual entities enjoy their brief moment of subjective immediacy and then quickly slip into the status Whitehead refers to as objective immortality.

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).

We might also note that the moral limits for the regulation of individual behavior have over recent decades become increasingly arbitrary as the notion of the public good has become a more psychological, more subjective, and thus a more confused, notion.

As a step towards meeting this problem Whitehead introduced the notion of a «subjective aim.»

He defines «vacuous actuality,» «which haunts realistic philosophy,» as «the notion of res vera devoid of subjective immediacy.»

This notion of «aim» is a precursor of «subjective aim» in all of its permutations.

Since nearly all the material of this chapter on «Derivative Notions» (1.3) consists of passages originally belonging elsewhere but later displaced, not to be simply discarded but to be assembled here, 8 Hurtubise sees this particular passage as originally belonging to the account of the Category of Subjective Harmony (Process 27).

In chapter 4, the emergence of the notion of «subjective aim» in the early concept of God of Process and Reality is shown on the basis of passages from Process and Reality 224 and 244.

I hope now that you agree wi th me that the tiresomeness of an over peopled Heaven is a purely subjective and illusory notion, a sign of human incapacity, a remnant of the old narrow - hearted aristocratic creed.

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.

This notion of time also clarifies the nature of our subjective freedom in the context of our past.

The proper interpretation of Lamarckian notions in genetics thus depends fully on knowing «what» we are talking about: all new patterns of efficient causation in animal bodies can be traced to some occasions» subjective aims.

I can understand it being subjective if the notion of whether God exists or not is subjective.

After Freud, psychoanalysis fractured into many schools of thought, but the idea of an inner world of unconscious conflict, and the notion that subjective experiences are meaningful and important, remain at the core of this view of human nature.

What remains important in this film is that it focuses on some jarring universal notions: subjective autonomy, loyalty to one's convictions, the misunderstanding of others, friendship, and the passage of time.

If a teacher's subjective grading system is giving students an inaccurate picture of their performance, that teacher is also giving herself an inaccurate notion of how well she is doing at teaching her students.

Curriculum «best practice» would also be targeted, since the notion of «best» was subjective and required a more rigorous focus on the actual efficacy of classroom methods, said Carter.

So there is no simple answer to your question, and the notion of fairness is subjective.

These assessments are subjective, meaning they are influenced by a person's preconceived notions about what a particular type of dog should look like.

Yet while the notion of drawing in space had already featured prominently in Clement Greenberg's writing about midcentury expressionist sculpture, Sandback's drawing is hardly so subjective; his lines look less like traces of the artist's hand than like vectors laid out with a parallel rule or a T square.

Yet while the notion of drawing in space had already featured prominently in Clement Greenberg's writing about midcentury expressionist sculpture, Sandback's drawing is hardly so subjective; his lines look less

Rather than presenting artists and their work through notions of marginality, the exhibition generates discussions of subjective and shared experiences told through concepts of space and place.

Questions were raised on the nuances and distinctions between notions of the subjective, personal and self - indulgent.

Hands also reveals notions of subjective tastes and cultural influences in her layering of disparate branding.

The surface of the photograph itself is a persistent subject of interest for Tillmans, and his careful combination of small and large formats, and framed and unframed prints, serves to underscore the notion of the photographic image as an object — subjective and idiosyncratic.

David has always shown a fascination with masquerade, it seems that the elements of the unknown are the most compelling, generating the notion that truth is a truly subjective concept.

Within Living Memory brings together interconnected bodies of work produced by Green over the past decade that address conditions of residency and displacement, subjective experience, institutional memory, notions of progress, and the inevitability of decay.

This exhibition project explores the moments of possible subjective manipulations, representations, reconsiderations, and interpretations of past events as a response to our ambivalent relationship with the notion of history.

Ted Kincaid is a Dallas - based artist whose work challenges the notion of photography as a subjective record.

Typically associated with manipulation, emotional or illusionary trickery, and subjective sentiment, the notion of «aesthetics» seems antithetical to the legal conception of truth as objectively given.

Li Wenguang is known for his highly subjective and idiosyncratic works, many of which have been based on notions of pseudoscientific equations, personal diaries, and dream interpretation.

Extending beyond the purely representational, many of the works express subjective and personal reflections and relationships with the notion of landscape or horizon.

The Museum of Cycladic art is delighted to announce Her (his) tory, the first ever video - art exhibition in its premises, examining the notion of the subjective development of the «historical condition».

Newtom himself claimed to not make hypotheses, but he in fact had notions that seemed very hypothetical:) We should find greater reward in seeing what the scientist does as opposed to what he says about it, an objectied stance on a subjective person in a «paradigm,» or school of thought that attempts to be objective.

But the very notion of what is or isn't «wicked» is inherently subjective.

Take the IPCC's 90 % it's AGW for instance — this is a completely subjective and arbitrary figure, and as simple as a group of people sat around a table discussing which percentage they should publish — «ok we're agreed, let's say 90 % then» — it says nothing scientifically as to the reality of the AGW situation, and can only mislead and actually likely to give the notion of certainty.

Furthermore, the notion that two degrees C of warming is a «safe» limit is subjective.