Sentences with phrase «subjective questions of»

In exploring subjective questions of quality and their relationship to the art - historical canon, one finds that a «good» AbEx work is one that is determined to be so by both the viewer and the critics and experts, as well as being the result of societal biases (more on that last part later).

over Julie is a stretch not only because of the admittedly subjective question of attractiveness (with my eye as the beholder, Cruz is no beauty), but also because Cruz is a breathtakingly awful actress — it's Sofia Coppola - impossible to believe that anyone would betray love for her without an ulterior motive.

Not exact matches

Despite the subjective nature of this question, answers have been found to be a good predictor of people's future health care use.

As to what «matters» that «count», wouldn't you agree that such a subjective question would only generate a subjective answer if I were to explain how these matters «count» according to my personal point of view?

(Though to call them visions» is to emphasize unduly the subjective element in the experience, and to raise a whole series of modern questions.

The question of the nature of such visions is more difficult, for it involves criteria by which visions are to be distinguished from invented ones or those due to mere subjective human conditions.

My answer to this question is that I find it impossible to give meaningful content to the idea of a subjective aim derived from God which will function in the specified way.

The principle is that in regard to the presentation of subjective aims, God has to «speak» to each actual occasion in its own «language,» that is, at its own level, in a manner harmonious with the character of the sort of data which are in general operative in the aesthetic synthesis which is the concrescence of the actual occasion in question.

Subjective immortality alone, of course, can not answer the question of justice.

The problem is still raised in its classical form as the persistence of the disembodied soul, but the question really concerns the retention of subjective immediacy for any occasion, and Whitehead's language suggests that there may be «a peculiarly intense relationship of mutual immanence» between the occasion and God supportive of its subjective immediacy.

Nevertheless, the question remains of why a critical observer such as Weber was able, from his early interest in the Puritan ethic, to sustain the conviction that one could make reliable statements about subjective meanings.

But what the mind can imagine in this primitive and picture — like manner does not exhaust our subjective repertoire; a neglected form, prominent within private consciousness, is of primary importance to our question.

Consequently, it is not surprising, as we shall see in the next two chapters, that many approaches have turned away from subjective meaning toward questions of symbolism and discourse.

This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm, subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.

This bears directly on the question of subjective immortality and the prospect of eternal reward or punishment.

Therefore two prehensions may have the same spatio - temporal standpoint but still differ if the subjects in question differ in the unity of their subjective immediacies.73 But though in this he sides with Cobb, Ford faults Cobb on the very point Wilcox raises.74 For while God, in Cobb's view, is omnispatial, he is not omnitemporal.

Finally, in the fourth place there is the question of ontology, of just what kind of world it is in which gift without return and the death of the other linked to my own death gives rise to subjectivity and ensures that as subjective beings we are first and foremost ethical creatures — even before we are erotic creatures or curious creatures.

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.

Perhaps for that reason, even the question of subjective survival beyond death was not a major preoccupation.

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

Even though the prehensions in question are not conscious, surely one would be hesitant to attribute to a finite occasion the envisagement of a nondenumerable multitude of possibilities from which to select its subjective aim.

It is true that in Religion in the Making Whitehead remarked that his doctrine «is entirely neutral on the question of immortality» in the subjective sense.

The further question, of whether this kind of «memory» which preserves the reality of such valued data in the divine life, also carries with it what we might describe as subjective immortality, is not discussed in Whitehead's essay.

If we ask how this difference arises, and if we press our question fully, we find that the answer is that in each occasion of human experience there is a decision determining the subjective aim of the occasion which may deviate from the full ideal offered the occasion in its initial phase.

The answer to this question is given in the concept of the «subjective aim» which is proper to each series of occasions.

There was no question of his championing some kind of subjective righteousness entirely detached from the realities of life.

@b4bigbang, so because there is no one definitive source that provides all answers to all moral questions we should rely on our own subjective interpretations of the myths of ignorant iron age cultures?

b4bigbang, so because there is no one definitive source that provides all answers to all moral questions we should rely on our own subjective interpretations of the myths of a ignorant iron age cultures?

Taking creeds and faith - state together, as forming «religions,» and treating these as purely subjective phenomena, without regard to the question of their «truth,» we are obliged, on account of their extraordinary influence upon action and endurance, to class them amongst the most important biological functions of mankind.

Still more subjective is my opinion that even in the physical sciences there is a dawning awareness of the need to wrestle again with the questions on which Whitehead cast so much light.

Finally, the subjective health of the respondents was measured using the following question: «In general, how would you assess your health?»

* dissatisfactory can mean anythings, and it's definition is of course subjective not object, but this question is about when the majority believes the subject interpretation

I guess «enough» is purely subjective, but this question surely has received a lot of attention...

The question of how changes in the environment give rise to the subjective experience of time in our brain continues to challenge psychologists and brain researchers

It also raises the question of whether machines could ever have subjective experiences.

with the question marks acknowledging the «subjective nature of our deduction.»

The question of whether the human consciousness is subjective or objective is largely philosophical.

Any answer to that question is purely subjective, of course.

However, The Age of Rage isn't so much asking the question of how we got here, but instead purely capturing one of the most tumultuous political periods in American history, with an unflinching (somewhat) subjective eye that isn't afraid to get intimate with individuals who possess the most extreme sets of values.

More likely - in fact certainly - employees will be asked to prove their worth by answering subjective questions, or more correctly forming an opinion about a subjective question, which by definition does not have a correct answer, only a well thought out opinion or point - of - view.

The visioneers who tackle the tough, subjective questions, such as what are the best ways to improve fuel consumption, however, must possess more than an ability to search for and utilize established facts, they need the intangible gift of hypothetical questioning.

And, of course, this subjective question means wildly different things to teachers in different schools and states.

The new practice of entering virtual worlds raises fundamental questions about our communities and ourselves... For every step forward in the instrumental use of a technology (what the technology can do for us) there are subjective effects.

Subjective questions create an enormous amount of work for teachers.

By creating a test with subjective questions, your teacher is setting himself / herself up for hours of grading.

Deciding what items to include on the test, how questions are worded, which answers are scored as «correct,» how the test is administered, and the uses of exam results are all made by subjective human beings.

Using data from a midsize Florida school district, this paper explores both questions by calculating teachers» «value added» and comparing those outcomes with subjective ratings of teachers by school principals.

Mounting pressure in the policy arena to improve teacher productivity either by improving signals that predict teacher performance or through creating incentive contracts based on performance — has spurred two related questions: Are there important determinants of teacher productivity that are not captured by teacher credentials but that can be measured by subjective assessments?

Given that the questions are entirely subjective, all this study establishes is that African American students * feel * less accepted, etc — and of course, that whites / Asians * don't * feel less accepted.

The model in question has been described as «used,» though the use of the term can be pretty subjective.