Incidence (geometrical elements),
Inclusion (extensive), 452
Incompatibility, 128, 145, 170,
225, 227, 233, 344, 345, 367, 377,
381, 410, 425
Independence, contemporary, 96
Indetermination, 71, 323, 393-395,
Indication, 295, 296, 394
Indicative feeling, 397-405, 411-
Indicative system, 296, 297
Induction, 309-316
Inferential judgment, 418
542 Index of Terms
Infinitesimals, 500, 506, 507 Ingression, 34, 38, 63, 66, 245, 356,
Inherence, 43, 121, 219, 342, 354
Inheritance, 51, 253, 260, 271, 275, 373, 426, 532
Initial data, 230, 337, 345, 355, 361
Inspectio, 77, 78, 117, 148, 496
Instruments, 195, 508
Integration, 39, 245, 248, 261, 273, 322, 347, 378, 407-428
Intellectual feelings, 285, 290, 378, 406-428, 516
Intensive emphasis, 75, 128, 136,
155, 160, 161, 165, 167, 172, 177,
222, 315, 368, 424
Intensive quantity, 356
Interpretation, 263
Intersect (unique, multiple), 453
Intuitio, 78
Intuition, 49, 65, 212, 216, 233, 253,
Intuitive judgment, 292, 406-428
Irreversibility of time, 363
It, 398-405
Judging subject (cf. Prehending subject), 291-294, 297, 304-306,
Judgment-feelings, 396
Judgment, 281-316, 395, 412-428
Judicium, 117, 495
Language, 16, 253, 264, 276, 277, 403, 495
Law, 139, 150, 253, 311, 434
Life, 151, 156-165, 180, 182, 280,
Light, theories of, 53
Linear stretch, 459
Location, 352
Loci of propositions (cf. Scope), 283, 397
Loci, punctual, complete, 458
Logical subjects, 36, 283-316, 393-
Lowest terms (set of points), 466
Lure, 37, 180, 131, 133, 1386, 281,
283, 284, 294, 342, 343, 395, 402,
416, 522
Macroscosmic, 75, 196, 254, 326,
Manner, 175, 187, 199, 201, 204
Many, 31, 321, 365, 518-532
Mathematical form (relations), 498
Matrix, 13, 437
Matter, 46
Meaning, 255, 274
Means, 531
Measurement, 140, 148, 149, 194, 195, 257, 258, 440, 461, 491-508
Mediate connection, 450
Medium, 194, 345, 435, 446
Memory, 253, 264
Mental pole, 40, 48, 130, 165, 280, 343, 366, 379, 380, 423, 436, 528
Mental prehension, 290, 324
Mentality, 49, 108, 277, 326
Metaphysical propositions, 300-303
Metaphysics, 138, 294, 441
Microscosmic, 75, 196, 254, 326, 327
Mind, 130, 155, 165, 167, 209, 324, 326, 376
Misplaced concreteness, 11
Modes, 10, 125
Monads, 76, 124
Morality, 23, 160, 339, 390, 483,
Morphology, 212, 218, 334-336, 355, 439, 440-442, 448
Motion, 118, 119, 124
Multiplicity, 33, 36, 44, 69, 73, 199, 254, 338, 348, 525-531
Narrowness, 169-176, 252
Negation, 245, 372, 417
Negative prehensions, 35, 66, 128, 162, 338-360, 362, 524
Neutral stuff, 46
Nexus, 27-32, 42, 82, 98, 124, 151, 192, 295, 338, 348-351, 382-390,
No-form of judgment, 413
Novelty, 31, 64, 72, 104, 135, 143,
156-161, 165, 183, 196, 201, 207,
245-249, 254, 280, 284, 354-356,
377, 381, 387, 410, 427, 443, 517,
Novelty, organ of, instrument of, 516, 529
Object, 82, 89, 136, 211, 230, 327, 336, 353, 366, 371
Objectification (cf. also Presenta-
tional and Causal Objectifica-
tion), 34, 38, 66, 80, 82, 118, 134,
ae 260, 269, 346, 356, 359, 361,
Objectification, mediate, 468
Objectivé, 72, 118, 128, 327, 336,
immediate and
Objective datum, 162, 243, 338, 355,
Objective diversity, category of, 39, 344, 347, 348
Objective identity, category of, 39, 340, 344, 347, 364, 381, 407-428
Objective immortality, ix, 44-47,
71, 89, 94, 129, 208, 328, 340, 352,
364, 374, 527, 532, 533
Objectivity, 235, 236, 241
Obligations, categoreal, 30, 39
Occasion, 32, 38, 118, 119, 124,
One, 31, 321, 518, 528-532
Ontological principle, 27, 36, 65,
66, 68, 73, 108, 113, 116, 123, 224,
2525, 352, 373, 382, 392
Opposites, 167, 531
Pee 50, 64, 103, 127-167, 169, 373,
Originality (originate), 162, 176,
179, 186, 255, 262, 269, 283, 284,
325, 343, 376, 415, 437, 516
Oval regions, 461-471
Ovate classes, 461-471
Overlap, 452
Participation, 63
Particulars, 76, 79, 196, 222, 230, 239, 295, 300, 320, 350, 351, 522
Past, The, 178, 188, 194, 197, 255- 260, 271, 320, 364, 484-487, 517,
Patterns, 174-176, 283, 292, 295, 352, 356, 374, 393, 417-420, 428
Perception, 81, 184, 255, 361, 365
Perceptive feeling, 397-405, 406-
Perishing, 48, 94, 126, 130, 196, 222, 320) 516, 517, 52551527, 533
Permanence, 44, 248, 254, 318-328, 365, 499, 501, 518, 527-529
Personal order, 50, 51, 138, 141, 161, 163, 182, 244
Perspective, 96, 105, 118, 119, 185, 227, 282, 233, 257, 321, 353; 361
Phases of concrescence, 39, 75, 104,
176, 179, 186, 225, 234, 243, 249,
261, 311, 313, 323, 343, 362, 370,
434, 532
Philosophy of organism, vi
Physical physiology, 157, 158
Physical pole, 49, 280, 366, 379, 437, 528, 529
Physical prehensions (feelings),
35, 99, 243, 248, 249, 280, 290, 325,
343, 355, 370, 469, 516
Physical purposes, 49, 280, 406-428, 470, 482
Physical purposes, species of, 422,
Physical recognition (recollection), 397-405, 411-428
Planes, 194, 466
Points, 448, 456-508
Position, 38, 296
Positive prehensions (cf. Feelings), 35, 66, 82, 335, 347
Possibility, 46, 245, 236, 421
Potentiality (potential), 32-34, 63,
68-73, 136, 202, 226, 249, 284,
287, 336, 346, 365, 407, 445, 529
Potentiality, general, 101, 102, 249, 280, 283
Potentiality, real, 101-103, 113, 147, 188, 227, 336, 340, 470
Power, 88-91, 123, 222, 320
Practice, 19, 125, 208, 221, 231, 237, 264, 371
Predicate, 36, 239, 283-316, 393-405
Predicative feeling, 398-405, 413-
Predicative pattern, 393-405
Prehending subject (cf. Judging Subject), 395-405
Prehension, 27, 28, 32, 35, 81, 82, 335-428
Presentational immediacy, 43, 99,
125, 185-197, 246, 253, 255-279,
390, 474-508
Presentational objectification, 91,
Presented locus (immediate pres-
ent, also cf. Strain-locus), 155,
189-195, 256, 257, 261, 270, 477-508
Primary feelings, 353, 361-372
Prime (geometrical elements),
Primitiveness, 173, 214, 246, 247,
Privacy, 214, 229, 323, 324, 443-445, 481, 497, 502, 508
Probability, 253, 304-315, 419
Process, 32, 35, 63, 65, 84, 136, 147,
176, 212, 213, 227, 229, 232, 317-
328, 517, 529
Projection (projectors), 262, 473, 476, 478, 492-497, 503 ;
Proper entity, 45, 338
Propositional feelings, 387, 391-405, 406-428
Propositions, 17, 32, 82, 280-316, 338, 342, 348, 372, 391-405, 437
Psychological fields, 497, 508
544 Index of Terms
Psychological physiology, 157, 158
Publicity, 229, 443-445, 502
Punctual, 457
Pure physical feelings (pure—not hybrid), 375
Pure prehensions (pure—concep- tual or physical), 49, 99, 280
Purpose, 28, 35, 49, 165, 196, 250,
Qualification, 382-390
Quality, 356, 365, 368, 444
Quantity, 365, 507, 508
Quantum, 118, 121, 145, 365, 389, 434, 471
Rationalism, 7, 14, 67, 232
Real (realization), a8} "34, 327, 343, 348, 445, 518, 519
Real essence, 84, 92, 93
Real potentiality, 123, 336, 441, 498
Realitas objectiva, 77, 78, 84, 86, 117, 239, 242, 495, 496
Realization (reality), 284, 356, 532
Reasons, 37, 65, 185, 140, 201, 267,
Recollection, 370, 381
Re-enaction, 362-364, 374, 375, 380
Region, 449-508
Regnant society, 156, 157
Relation, 295, 296, 349, 350, 364,
Relativity, 43, 76, 79, 224, 226, 532
Relevance, 46, 48, 64, 69, 73, 126,
131, 164, 165, 171, 174, 194, 224,
233, 248, 251, 261, 262, 282, 315,
367, 374, 425, 427, 481, 484, 522,
527, 529
Religion, 23, 516, 519, 521
Reminiscence, 370, 381
Repetition, 202-208, 213, 234, 235, 320, 387, 426
Reproduction, 364,
Res Mets vili, 32, Pi 108, 116, 196, 209, 2
Repent (cf. Conformal)
Rest, 486, 488
Reversion, 40, 155, 159, 376-390, 397-403, 412-428
Satisfaction, 29, 38, 66, 71, 82, 129, 1380, 227, 233, 249, 251, 286, 335
Scalar, 268, 323, 324
Science, 23, 111, 178, 179, 471, 499,
Scope of a proposition (cf. Locus),
Seat of a strain, 472-508
Secondary quality, 186, 493, 496
Segments (segmental), 457
Sensationalist doctrine, the, 214, 220-223, 237-254, 289, 290
Sensationalist principle, the, vill, 238-254, 289, 290
Sensitivity, 66, 248, 292, 338, 359,
Sensum, 100, 174-178, 185, 193, 257- 267, 479, 496
Serial inheritance, 51
Simple feelings (cf. Primary feel- ings), 355, 361-372
Simple location, fallacy of, 208
Simplicity (simplification), 85, 145,
162, 171-176, 199-205, 342, 387,
389, 408, 479
Society, 50, 51, 86, 112, 128, 136- 167, 169, 197, 293, 373
Solidarity, 65, 104, 112, 249, 254, 336, 438, 446, 525, 532
Soul, 213, 370
Space, 95, 108, 109, 123, 124
Spatialization, 126, 257, 319, 336, 442, 488, 489
Speculative philosophy, viii, 4
Standpoint, 435, 436
Static, 318-328, 526, 529, 530
Statistical probability, 162, 305-316
Straight lines, 148, 149, 155, 194, nae 448, 458, 461-471, 466 (def.),
Straight line, complete, 466
Strain-feelings, 198, 472-508, 491-
Strain-locus, 196, 488, 491-508
Structured societies, 151-156
Subject, 35, 38, 89, 129, 136, 228, 234, 239, 252, 337-360, 361, 443
Subject-predicate, viii, 80, 116, 209, 219, 241, 339
Subjective aim, 29, 37, 74, 75, 108,
134, 195, 254, 320, 342, 343, 359,
369, 373, 420, 423, 434, 523-527
Subjective form, 29, 32, 35, 49, 66,
82, 108, 134, 136, 234, 235, 243,
246, 248, 249, 280, 292, 338-360,
362, 368, 369, 374-390, 391, 398,
401, 402, 406-428, 434, 436, 447,
479, 482, 522, 523
Subjective unity, category of, 39,
335, 340-342, 347, 362, 368, 378,
380, 389, 390, 435,
Subjectivist Principle, The, 231, 235-254, 288-291
Subsistence, 73
spec -n p F Mh nadac N tinhne Aig Sat AA AIOE mn at OIE IN Se Sa a ANS
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
judgment, 291, 412,
Tangency, 453
Temporal extension, 107
Tetrahedron, 467
Theories (cf. Propositions), 33, 245,
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,
Ultimate, the, 11,
Unauthentic ae 400, 401, 412,
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,
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
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 bounded- ness denied to the extensive potentiality external to it. The boundedness applies both to the spatial and the temporal aspects of extension. Wherever there is am- biguity 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, pre- serve 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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