Sentences with phrase «subordinate occasions»

Imagine the prehensive relations across levels of a structured society in which presiding occasions have durations a million times longer than do subordinate occasions.

Given the kind of spatiotemporal progression that I have described, one might envision the interaction between presiding and subordinate occasions as follows.

His view also allows that occasions may include the spatiotemporal regions of subordinate occasions within themselves.

Yet, given this new understanding of Whiteheadian societies, Wolf has trouble imagining presiding occasions within structured societies if they simply occupy one small space within the society just like all the subordinate occasions.

Here, too, Wolf has tacitly abandoned the notion that the presiding occasion provides the «field» or «interstitial space» for subordinate occasions.

Hence, while the presiding occasion contributes more to the unity of the society than any of the subordinate occasions, the objective unity of the society is still provided by all of the occasions acting in concert, not by the dominant occasion alone.

This is his own model of societies as a «nested hierarchy,» but without the further qualification that the dominant occasion somehow acts as the field or interstitial space for the subordinate occasions.

Not exact matches

Don is a legendary womanizer, and on several occasions he's obliterated professional lines by sleeping with female clients (Rachel Menken, Bobbie Barrett), colleagues (research consultant Faye Miller) and, worst of all, subordinates (his secretary Allison).

Subordinate nexus, on the other hand, are groups of occasions whose character is derived exclusively from the role which they play in the structured society; hence, when and if that «level of social order» dissolves, they, too, go out of existence.

To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.

Gallagher, to be sure, thinks of these other living occasions as «subordinate nonconscious «living persons,»» (PS 4: 264), i.e., as strands of living occasions with a modest degree of social order below the level of consciousness.

This distinction between subordinate societies and subordinate nexus of occasions within structured societies is extremely important for Whitehead's discussion of «living» societies a few pages later.

I believe that dreams are experiences of the dominant occasion and that similar experience plays a subordinate role while we are awake, although generally excluded from consciousness by focused attention on the external world or events in the body.

The stream of conscious experience and synthetic activity is the dominant society of actual occasions in human (and animal) bodies, being influenced by subordinate organic processes in those bodies, then influencing them in turn in an ongoing dialectic of causality and creativity.

The membership of the complex structured society which is the electron is not, properly speaking, any of the subordinate societies or nexus of the electron, such as the personally ordered society, the enduring object, which constitutes the «life» of the electron, but, rather, the individual actual occasions of which these subordinate entities are composed.

Introspective self - consciousness involves causal objectification by the dominant occasion of some of the unimaginably large number of concreta making up the human mind / brain, including what can be called the subordinate nonconscious living persons responsible for our habitual behavior, that is, sub-personalities (RHNB 148f).

At this point Cobb might be tempted to make one last ditch stand, arguing that I have begged the question by merely assuming that a structured society can not be an enduring object, whereas what he is saying, when he says that one regional standpoint can include another, is that one enduring entity, one nonspatial, serially ordered society, can still be a structured society in that its temporally successive occasions can include the regional standpoints of the «narrower» actual entities which make up its subordinate societies and / or nexus.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

As governor general, he insisted that his subordinates make honest wives of their concubines, made Catholicism the official religion, forbade divorce, and on one occasion placed his handkerchief on a woman's décolletage, telling her, «Modesty should be the endowment of your sex.»

The difference between a subordinate society and a subordinate nexus is that the subordinate society is a group of occasions which can retain its»... dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.»

Third, presiding occasions of subordinate societies are nested within presiding occasions of superordinate societies.

No two occasions arise out of one and the same world, «though the difference between the two universes only consists in some actual entities, included in one and not in the other, and in the subordinate entities which each actual entity introduces into the world» (PR 34: 5th Category of Explanation).

But the point at issue is not the teleology of the structure, especially since Whitehead here makes fidelity to reality subordinate to the production of certain feeling - states; but whether such structure is particularly faithful to the nature of the intermediate phase of an occasion.

These subordinate, nondominant, and nonconscious (not explicitly reflective) enduring objects ease the job of the presiding occasion of the regnant society in integrating bodily experience and are called by Gallagher subordinate «living persons.

It is not only a reasonable hypothesis to say that «eternal object» and «nexus of successive occasions» refer to the pattern of behavioral definiteness sustained by subordinate «living persons» and the regnant society: it is also one of the few hypotheses available for avoiding the «Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness» by not making the entire nexus the locus of subjectively immediate feelings (WEP 183).

Or, as Gallagher echoes Merleau - Ponty, «At times, I act «in the first person,» while at other times, in fact most of the time, a more habitual or pre-personal thread of occasions [subordinate «living persons»] unifies my behavior.»

On the occasion of Cosima von Bonin's new exhibition in the Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Daffy Duck, who has hitherto played a subordinate role in her work of, makes a new appearance as the publisher's imprint on the invitation card.

An analysis of the leading cases in this Court which have involved direct limitations on speech, however, will demonstrate that both the majority of the Court and the dissenters in particular cases have recognized that this is not an unlimited, unqualified right, but that the societal value of speech must, on occasion, be subordinated to other values and considerations.

Sinister uses — making business, i. e. occasion for fees; making complication, thence confusion, uncertainty, uncognoscibility, materials for sham science, & c. & c. Examples: — In English common law, causes sent from King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, to Nisi Prius, or Assizes, and back again: in Equity, from Chancery, or Exchequer, to town examiners» office, or country commissioners, and back again: and from the superior to a subordinate judge: — In Scottish practice, vibrations between the provincial courts and the metropolitan; and in the metropolitan, between outer and inner house: in both, as well as in the provincial courts, between the deciding and some evidence - collecting judge.