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INDEX OF TERMS

p. 545

Substance, ix, 28, 32, 44, 75, 79, 86,Triviality, 170, 423, 437, 517

116, 129, 135, all, 318

Substantial form, 51, 336-360, 507

Superject, 43, 71, 108, 129, 134-
136, 228, 284, 252, 338, 443

Supplementary feeling, 176, 273

Surface, 458

Suspended
416, 418

Symbolism, 216, 255-279

Symbolic reference, 126, 185, 186,
255-279

System, 196, 394, 441, 485, 499-508

207, 209, 222, 239, judgment, 291, 412,

Tangency, 453

Temporal extension, 107

Tetrahedron, 467

Theories (cf. Propositions), 33, 245,
280

Time, 48, 95, 107-109, 196, 208, 364,
380, 434, 442, 443

Togetherness, 29, 32, 48, 86, 147,
288, 289

Transcendence, 130, 134, 135, 143,
248, 336, 339, 340, 347, 362, 366,
367, 528

Transition, 320, 322

Transmission (transference), 162,
177, 180, 182, 195, 247, 265, 373-
390, 383-390, "438, ‘441, ‘482, 517

Transmutation, 40, 98, 99, 101, 154,
155, 182, 248, 355, 362, 401, 410,
415, 446, 477, 478

Transmutation, category of, 40,
384, 446. 473, 478, 483, 493

Triangle, 466

Triple relation, 295

Truth and falsehood, 284, 288, 291,
292, 340, 392, 394, 396, 414, 419,
420

Ultimate, the, 11,

Unauthentic ae 400, 401, 412,
415

Unison of becoming, 189, 190, 192,
195, 487, 517, 528, 524, 531

Unity, 525-533

Universals, 20, 76, 79, 196, 226,
230, 239, 280, 300, 351, 444

Vacuous actuality, viii, 43, 253,
471

Vagueness, 101, 126, 170-172, 178,
183, 271, 362, 387

Valuation, 28, 35, 39, 47, 64, 165,
284, 367-369, 374, 402

Vector, 28, 86, 133, 177-184, 228,

247, 268, 323, 324, 354, 363, 471,
481, 483, 496
Velocity, 488
Vibration, 122, 145,
423, 426
Vision, 50, 254, 323, 326, 527, 529
Volume, 458

247, 285, 365,

Waves, 53, 247, 499

Whole and part, 439

Width, 169, 170, 247, 248, 252

Withness of the body, 99, 125, 258,
259, 475-508

Words, 276, 277

Yes-form of judgment, 413

CORRIGENDA

Page 459—An explanatory paragraph is required at the end of this chapter to make clear the principle that a certain determinate boundedness is required for the notion of a region—z.e., for the notion of an extensive standpoint in the real potentiality for actualization. The inside of a region, its volume, has a complete boundedness denied to the extensive potentiality external to it. The boundedness applies both to the spatial and the temporal aspects of extension. Wherever there is ambiguity as to the contrast of boundedness between inside and outside, there is no proper region. In the next chapter all the ovals, members of one ovate class, preserve this property of boundedness, in the same sense for each of the ovals. Thus in the case of Elliptic Geometry (page 504) no oval can include half a straight line. On page 463, Condition vii has been expressed carelessly, so as to apply only to the case of infinite spatiality, z.e., to Euclidean and Hyperbolic Geometry.

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PROCESS AND REALITY

AN ESSAY IN COSMOLOGY

Girrorp Lectures DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY or EpvinsurcuH Durine THE Session 1927-28

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PREFACE

Tuese lectures are based upon a recurrence to that phase of philosophic thought which began with Descartes and ended with Hume. The philosophic scheme which they endeavour to explain is termed the ‘Philosophy of Organism.’ There is no doctrine put forward which cannot cite in its defence some explicit statement of one of this group of thinkers, or of one of the two founders of all Western thought, Plato and Aristotle. But the philosophy of organism is apt to emphasize just those elements in the writings of these masters which subsequent systematizers have put aside. The writer who most fully anticipated the main positions of the philosophy of organism is John Locke in his Essay, especially * in its later books.