Process and Reality: An Essay in CosmologyProcess and Reality, Whitehead's magnum opus, is one of the major philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of secondary literature has developed around it. Yet surely no significant philosophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorable a condition as has this one, with its many hundreds of errors and with over three hundred discrepancies between the American (Macmillan) and the English (Cambridge) editions, which appeared in different formats with divergent paginations. The work itself is highly technical and far from easy to understand, and in many passages the errors in those editions were such as to compound the difficulties. The need for a corrected edition has been keenly felt for many decades. |
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SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY | 3 |
THE CATEGOREAL SCHEME | 18 |
SOME DERIVATIVE NOTIONS | 31 |
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abstract actual entity actual occasions actual world antecedent arises atomic becoming causal character complex components conceived conceptual feeling conceptual prehension concerned concrescence consciousness constitution contemporary contrast cosmology creativity datum defining characteristic definite derived Descartes determinate diverse doctrine elements emotional enduring objects environment eternal objects example existence experience express extensive continuum fact final function Gifford Lectures historic route Hume Hume's Hume's principle immediate individual ingression involved Kant Locke Locke's locus logical meaning mental metaphysical mode Monadology negative prehensions nexus notion objectification ontological principle original particular perception phase philosophy of organism physical feelings Plato potentiality presentational immediacy presupposes primary primordial nature principle of relativity Process and Reality proposition pure reason reference relations relevance satisfaction scheme Scholium SECTION sensa sense simple ideas specific statement structured society subject-superject subjective aim subjective form substance term theory thought Timaeus tion ultimate unity universe whereby Whitehead
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