Process and Reality — the Gifford Lectures, 1929

CHAPTER IV. ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENT

. Reaction of Environment on Actual Occasions; Narrowness and Width, Dependent on Societies, Orderly Element; Chaos, Triviality, Orderliness, Depth; Trivialty, Vagueness, Narrowness, Width; Incompatibility, Contrast; Trivialty,. Excess of Differentiation; Vagueness, Excess of Identification; Nexus as One, Vagueness, Narrowness, Depth; Coordination of Chaos, Vagueness, Narrowness, Width.

. Intensity, Narrowness; Philosophy of Organism, Kant, Locke. Ii.

Sensa, Lowest Category of Eternal Objects, Definition; Sensa, Contrasts of, Intensity; Contrasts in High and Low Categories, Patterns; Eternal Objects, Simplicity, Complexity; Sensa Experienced Emotionally.

. Transmission, Diverse Routes, Inhibitions, Intensification;

Vector Character, Form of Energy; Physical Science.

. Environmental Data as in Perception; Visual Perception,

Most Sophisticated Form; Originated by Antecedent State of Animal Body, Hume; Animal Body and External Environment, Amplifyer.

. Perception and Animal Body, Causal Efficacy. . Causal Efficacy, Viscera; Presentational Immediacy, Delusive

Perceptions, Secondary Qualities, Extension, Withness of
Body; Hume, Kant.

. Loci Disclosed by Perception; Contemporary Regions, Causal

Past, Causal Future; Immediate Present, Unison of Becoming, Concrescent Unison, Duration; Differentiation between Immediate Present and Presented Duration; Presented Locus.

Presented Locus and Unison of Becoming; Presented Locus,
Systematic Relation to Animal Body, Strains, Independence
of External Contemporary Happenings, Straight Lines,
Measurement; Unison of Becoming, Duration.

Summary.

CuaptTer V. Lockr AND HUME

Hume, Perceptions, Substance, Principle of Union; Ideas,
Copies of Impressions, Imaginative Freedom.

Hume and ‘Repetition,’ Cause and Effect; Memory, Force and Vivacity.

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Time, Hume, Descartes, Independence of Successive Occasions; Objective Immortality.

Influence of Subject-Predicate Notion; Hume, Descartes,
Locke, Particular Existence.

Hume and Locke, Process and Morphology; False Derivation of Emotional Feelings; Sensationalist Doctrine; Santayana.

Cuapter VI. From Descartes To KAntT

Descartes, Three Kinds of Substance: Extended, Mental,
God’s; Three Kinds of Change, of Accidents, Origination,
Cessation; Accidental Relations, Representative Ideas;
Unessential Experience of External World.

. Locke, Empiricism, Adequacy, Inconsistency; Particular Existent, Substance, Power; Relativity, Perpetually Perishing.

. Analogy and Contrast with Philosophy of Organism. . Hume and Process, Kant, Santayana.

Contrasted Procedures of Philosophy of Organism and Kant.

Cuarter VII. Tue SuBJECTIVIST PRINCIPLE

The Subjectivist Principle and the Sensationalist Principle;
The Sensationalist Doctrine Combines Both; Locke, Hume,
Kant; Statement of the Principles; The Three Premises
for the Subjectivist Principle; Philosophy of Organism
Denies the Two Principles and the Three Premises;
Descartes; ‘That Stone as Grey,’ Substance and Quality,
Organs of Sensation; Descartes’ Subjectivist Modification;
‘Perception of That Stone as Grey’; Failure to Provide
Revised Categories; Hume.

Knowledge, Its Variations, Vaguenesses; Negative Perception the General Case, Consciousness is the Feeling of Negation, Novelty; Consciousness a Subjective Form, Only Present in Late Derivative Phases of Complex Integrations; Consciousness only Illuminates the Derivative Types of Objective Data, Philosophy Misled by Clearness and Distinctness.

Primitive Type of Physical Experience is Emotional; Vector Transmission of Feeling, Pulses of Emotion, Wave-Length; Human Emotion is Interpreted Emotion, not Bare Emotional Feeling.

Decision Regulating Ingression of Eternal Objects, Old Meeting New; The Three Phases of Feeling, Conformal, Conceptual, Comparative; Eternal Objects and Subjective

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Forms; Continuity of the Phases; Category of Objective
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Reformed Subjectivist Principle is Another Statement of Principle of Relativity; Process is the Becoming of Experience; Hume’s Principle Accepted, This Method only Errs in Detail; ‘Law’ for ‘Causation’ no Help; Modern Philosophy uses Wrong Categories; Two Misconceptions; (i) Vacuous Actuality, (ii) Inherence of Quality in Substance.

Cuapter VIII. Symsoric REFERENCE

Two Pure Modes of Perception, Symbolic Reference; Common Ground, Integration, Originative Freedom, Error; Common Ground, Presented Locus, Geometrical Indistinctness in mode of Causal Efficacy; Exceptions, Animal Body, Withness of Body.

. Common Ground, Common Sensa; Modern Empiricism,

Make-believe, Hume; Sensa Derived from Efficacy of
Body; Projection.

. Mistaken Primacy of Presentational Immediacy, Discussion,

Causal Efficacy Primitive.
Further Discussion; Causation and Sense-perception.
Comparison of Modes; Integration in Symbolic Reference.

. Principles of Symbolism, Language.

Cuapter IX. Propositions

Impure Prehensions by Integration of Pure Conceptual and Pure Physical Prehensions; Physical Purposes and Propositions Discriminated; Theory, not Primarily for Judgment, Lures for Feeling; Objective Lure; Final Cause; General and Singular Propositions; Logical Subjects, Complex Predicate; Propositions True or False; Lure to Novelty; Felt ‘Contrary’ is Consciousness in Germ; Judgment and Entertainment; Graded Envisagement.

Truth and Falsehood, Experiential Togetherness of Propositions and Fact; Correspondence and Coherence Theory; Propositions True or False, Judgments Correct or Incorrect or Suspended; Intuitive and Derivative Judgments; Logic concerned with Derivative Judgments; Error.

Systematic Background Presupposed by each Proposition;
Relations, Indicative Systems of Relations; Propositions
and Indicative Systems; Illustration, Inadequacy of Words.

Metaphysical Propositions; One and One Make Two.

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V. Induction, Probability, Statistical Theory, Ground, Sampling,
Finite Numbers.

VI. Suppressed Premises in Induction, Presupposition of Definite Type of Actuality Requirmg Definite Type of Environment; Wider Inductions Invalid; Statistical Probability within Relevant Environment.

VII. Objectification Samples Environment.

VIII. Alternative Non-Statistical Ground; Graduated Appetitions,
Primordial Nature of God; Secularization of Concept of
God’s Functions.

CHAPTER X. PROCESS

1. Fluency and Permanence; Generation and Substance; Spatialization, Two Kinds of Fluency, Macroscopic and Microscopic, from Occasion to Occasion and within Each Occasion.

II. Concrescence, Novelty, Actuality; Microscopic Concrescence.

III. Three Stages of Microscopic Concrescence; Vector Characters Indicate Macroscopic Transition; Emotion, and Subjective Form Generally, is Scalar in Microscopic Origination and is the Datum for Macroscopic Transition.

IV. Higher Phases of Microscopic Concrescence.

V. Summary,

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FACT AND FORM

SECTION I

Aut human discourse which bases its claim to consideration on the truth of its statements must appeal to the facts. In none of its branches can philosophy claim immunity to this rule. But in the case of philosophy the difficulty arises that the record of the facts is in part dispersed vaguely through the various linguistic expressions of civilized language and of literature, and is in part expressed more precisely under the influence of schemes of thought prevalent in the traditions of science and philosophy.

In this second part of these lectures, the scheme of

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