Symbolism, Its Meaning and EffectMacmillan, 1927 - 88 стор. |
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abstrac abstract act of experience activity actual things æsthetic ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD arises bodily organs bolism Cæsar causal efficacy ception character coloured shape complex components conceptual analysis concrete conformation consciousness constitute contemporary world datum definite derivative symbolism direct perception doctrine effect elements ence entational immediacy entities environment eral example expression French Revolution func high-grade organisms human Hume Hume's immediate past immediate presentation importance individual inhibitions insects language mental mode of causal mode of presentational molecules nature Norman Kemp Smith notion of pure objectifies perceived perceptive mode percipient perience phrases presentational immediacy presupposed primitive pure instinct pure succession purposes reason reflex action relationship Revolution sceptical scheme sense sense-data sense-perception sense-presentation social society Solipsism sound spatial relations spoken word symbol and meaning symbolic reference symbolic transference symbolically conditioned action thought tional immediacy transcendental idealists transference of emotion tual ultimate unity of experience UNIVERSITY vague vidual whereby
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Сторінка 86 - The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows (1927, p.
Сторінка 30 - According to this way of thinking, we ought not to receive as reasoning any of the observations we may make concerning identity and the relations of time and place; since in none of them the mind can go beyond what is immediately present to the senses, either to discover the real existence or the relations of objects.
Сторінка 31 - I would fain ask those philosophers, who found so much of their reasonings on the distinction of substance and accident, and imagine we have clear ideas of each, whether the idea of substance be derived from the impressions of sensation or of reflection?
Сторінка 6 - The human mind is functioning symbolically when some components of its experience elicit consciousness, beliefs, emotions, and usages, respecting other components of its experience. The former set of components are the ' symbols ', and the latter set constitute the ' meaning
Сторінка 86 - It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur : — like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision,...
Сторінка 32 - d to us by our senses, I ask, which of them; and after what manner? If it be perceiv'd by the eyes, it must be a colour; if by the ears, a sound; if by the palate, a taste; and so of the other senses. But I believe none will assert, that substance is either a colour, or sound, or a taste.
Сторінка 10 - In such an instance, the written word is a symbol and its meaning is the spoken word, and the spoken word is a symbol and its meaning is the dictionary meaning of the word, spoken or written. But often the written word effects its purpose without the intervention of the spoken word. Accordingly, then, the written word directly symbolizes the dictionary meaning. But so fluctuating and complex is human experience that in general neither of these cases is exemplified in the clear-cut way which is set...
Сторінка 19 - Presentational immediacy is our immediate perception of the contemporary external world, appearing as an element constitutive of our own experience. In this appearance the world discloses itself to be a community of actual things, which are actual in the same sense as we are. This appearance is effected by the mediation of qualities, such as colours, sounds, tastes, etc., which can with equal truth be described as our sensations or as the qualities of the actual things which we perceive. These qualities...
Сторінка 1 - ... pass straight from the perception of the coloured shape to the enjoyment of the chair, in some way of use, or of emotion, or of thought. We can easily explain this passage by reference to a train of difficult logical inference, whereby, having regard to our previous experiences of various shapes and various colours, we draw the probable conclusion that we are in the presence of a chair.
Сторінка 16 - symbolic reference.' By symbolic reference the various actualities disclosed respectively by the two modes are either identified, or are at least correlated together as interrelated elements in our environment. Thus the result of symbolic reference is what the actual world is for us, as that datum in our experience productive of feelings, emotions, satisfactions, actions, and finally as the topic for conscious recognition when our mentality intervenes with its conceptual analysis. 'Direct recognition'...