As we shall see in the next section, Whitehead's principal version of
symbolic reference becomes his means of relating images or sensa as directly perceived to the objects which cause them.
Not exact matches
Thus, the region of outer space decorated with grey sense - data in presentational immediacy
becomes through
symbolic reference the wall to which we refer in ordinary discourse, with its solid presence and causal powers.
It has
become the singular achievement of this ideology to detach society's self - understanding from the frame of
reference of relational, reciprocal, communicative interaction, with all of its
symbolic reinforcements, and to replace it with a scientific, objectivist model which aspires to the self - reification of men under categories of manipulative rational action and adaptive behavior.
Within these thick, impastoed surfaces Kiefer embeds textual or
symbolic references to historic figures or places; these
become encoded signals through which Kiefer invokes and processes history.