Notice that such mistakes are not intellectual in character, since this type of
symbolic reference does not involve the operation of thought.
The ability of bees to inhibit
symbolic reference does not, however, establish a nonhuman ability to grasp pure symbols.
Not exact matches
Whitehead
does the epoché in his systematic avoidance of the vivid sensa of presentational immediacy and the
symbolic reference of the «common - sense» world.
The description of the perception of both the lightning and the following thunder
does not therefore have to be given in phenomenalist terms, nor
does abandoning the phenomenalist description require Whitehead's second version of
symbolic reference as the projection of a sensum on a spatial region to which it is causally related.
It would be more correct to speak of texts as «straightforward descriptions» of an event or state of affairs, to use Kelsey's phrase, if one has in mind this notion, «
symbolic reference,» in Whitehead's theory of perception, rather than «propositions,» as Kelsey
does.
The separation of the two pure modes would then allow for focusing upon the actuality of this experience in the pure mode of causal efficacy rather than on the projected referents as we
do in the normal thought processes of
symbolic reference.
This would be
done by virtue of the extraordinarily complex rhythms within human experience wherein the core of the person's own experience is made compatible with the rhythms of external things, with minimal distortion, and whereby semantic rhythms within the person's experience point out the external
reference; Whitehead's discussion of
symbolic reference is a good account of this.
How
does his theory of
symbolic reference affect our understanding of the artist's creative work?
Reinhardt
did not believe in
symbolic references; yet he acknowledged their wide acceptance and was determined to avoid any possibility that such connotations might be read into his art.
The use of fences is a
symbolic reference to how fences keep people in and out, just as racial and gender identities can
do the same socially.
Through this notion, the curatorial statement
did not refer to a theoretical body, but to the way people imagine their social space and express themselves through cultural and historical
references, and to the
symbolic dimension they acquire through art.
Despite a preoccupation with
symbolic reference, Dawson's visual language
does not attempt to idealise his subject matter.
I didn't make any
reference to the «
symbolic value» that reconstruction gained.