Process and Reality — the Gifford Lectures, 1929

SECTION

• IV. Transmutation; Feeling a Nexus as One, Transmuted Physical Feeling; Réle of Impartial Conceptual Feeling in Transmutation, Category of Transmutation, Further Explanations; Conceptual Feelings Modifying Physical Feelings; Negative Prehensions Important.
• V. Subjective Harmony, the Seventh Categoreal Obligation.

Cuaprer [V. Proposirions AND FEELINGS

I. Consciousness, Propositional Feelings, Not Necessarily Conscious; Propositional Feeling is Product of Integration of Physical Feeling with a Conceptual Feeling; Eternal Objects Tell no Tales of Actual Occasions, Propositions are Tales That Might be Told of Logical Subjects; Proposition, True or False, Tells no Tales about Itself, Awaits Reasons; Conceptual Feeling Provides Predicative Pattern, Physical Feeling Provides Logical Subjects, Integration; Indication of Logical Subjects, Element of Givenness Required for Truth and Falsehood.

II. Proposition Not Necessarily Judged, Propositional Feelings Not Necessarily Conscious; New Propositions Arise; Possible Percipient Subjects within the ‘Scope of a Proposition.’

III. Origination of Propositional Feeling, Four (or Five) Stages, Indicative Feeling, Physical Recognition, Predicative Pattern (Predicate), Predicative Feeling; Propositional Feeling Integral of Indicative and Predicative Feelings.

IV. Subjective Forms of Propositional Feelings, Dependent on Phases of Origination; Case of Identity of Indicative Feeling with the Physical Recognition, Perceptive Feelings: Case of Diversity, Imaginative Feelings; Distinction not Necessarily Sharp-cut; The Species of Perceptive Feelings: Authentic, Direct Authentic, Indirect Authentic, Unauthentic; Tied Imagination.

V. Imaginative Feelings, Indicative Feeling and Physical Recognition Diverse, Free Imagination; Subjective Form Depends on Origination, Valuation rather than Consciousness; Lure to Creative Emergence; Criticism of Physical Feelings, Truth, Critical Conditions.

VI. Language, Its Functon; Origination of the Necessary Train of Feelings.

CuHuaprer V. THE HIGHER PHASES OF EXPERIENCE

I. Comparative Feelings, Conscious Perceptions, Physical Purposes; Physical Purposes More Primitive Than Propositional Feelings.

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SECTION II. Intellectual Feelings, Integration of Propositional Feeling with Physical Feeling of a Nexus Including the Logical Subjects; Category of Objective Identity, Affirmation-Negation Contrast; Consciousness is a Subjective Form.

III. Belief, Certainty, Locke, Immediate Intuition.

IV. Conscious Perception, Recapitulation of Origin; Direct and Indirect Authentic Feelings, Unauthentic Feelings; Transmutation; Perceptive Error, Novelty; Tests, Force and Vivacity, Analysis of Origination; Tests Fallible.

V. Judgment, Yes-Form, No-Form, Suspense-Form; In Yes- Form Identity of Patterns, in No-Form Diversity and Incompatibility, In Suspense Form Diversity and Incompatibility, In Suspense Form Diversity and Compatibility; Intuitive Judgment, Conscious Perception.

VI. Affirmative Intuitive Judgment Analogous to Conscious Perception, Difference Explained; Inferential Judgment; Divergence from Locke’s Nomenclature; Suspended Judgment.

VII. Physical Purposes, Primitive Type of Physical Feeling; Retaining Valuation and Purpose, Eliminating Indeterminateness of Complex Eternal Object; Responsive Re-enaction; Decision.

VIII. Second Species of Physical Purposes, Reversion Involved; Eighth Categoreal Obligation, Subjective Intensity; Immediate Subject, Relevant Future; Balance, Conditions for Contrast; Reversion as Condition for Balanced Contrast; Rhythm, Vibration; Categoreal Conditions; Physical Purposes and Propositional Feelings Compared,

CHAPTER I
THE THEORY OF FEELINGS

SECTION I

The philosophy of organism is a cell-theory of actuality. Each ultimate unit of fact is a cell-complex, not analysable into components with equivalent completeness of actuality.

The cell can be considered genetically and morphologically. The genetic-theory is considered in this part;

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the morphological theory is considered in Part IV, under the title of the ‘extensive analysis’ of an actual entity.

In the genetic-theory, the cell is exhibited as appropriating, for the foundation of its own existence, the various elements of the universe out of which it arises. Each process of appropriation of a particular element is termed a prehension. The ultimate elements of the universe, thus appropriated, are the already-constituted actual entities, and the eternal objects. All the actual entities are positively prehended, but only a selection of the eternal objects. In the course of the integrations of these various prehensions, entities of other categoreal types become relevant; and some new entities of these types, such as novel propositions and generic contrasts, come into existence. These relevant entities of these other types are also prehended into the constitution of the concrescent cell. This genetic process has now to be traced in its main outlines.

An actual entity is a process in the course of which many operations with incomplete subjective unity terminate in a completed unity of operation, termed the ‘satisfaction.’ The ‘satisfaction’ is the contentment of the creative urge by the fulfilment of its categoreal demands. The analysis of these categories is one aim of metaphysics.

The process itself is the constitution of the actual entity; in Locke’s phrase, it is the ‘real internal constitution’ of the actual entity. In the older phraseology employed by Descartes, the process is what the actual entity is in itself, ‘formaliter’ The terms ‘formal’ and ‘formally’ are here used in this sense.

The terminal unity of operation, here called the ‘satisfaction,’ embodies what the actual entity is beyond itself. In Locke’s phraseology, the ‘powers’ of the actual entity are discovered in the analysis of the satisfaction. In Descartes’ phraseology, the satisfaction is the actual entity considered as analysable in respect to its existence

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