The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... developed . The inescapable impression of what Whitehead has called the " withness of the body " has led him and others to make the organic categories the key categories , and to try to develop a theory of sense perception in which the ...
... developed . The inescapable impression of what Whitehead has called the " withness of the body " has led him and others to make the organic categories the key categories , and to try to develop a theory of sense perception in which the ...
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... develop " itself except by metaphor , or do we develop its implications and see how it can be exemplified in the ... developed . And we saw in our second chapter that this was through the exercise of a percipient activity , of whose ...
... develop " itself except by metaphor , or do we develop its implications and see how it can be exemplified in the ... developed . And we saw in our second chapter that this was through the exercise of a percipient activity , of whose ...
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... developed by science . I shall call it the indirect method . It consists in regarding perceptions not as bringing us into immediate cognitive relation with a portion of external reality , but only as supply- ing us with the data from ...
... developed by science . I shall call it the indirect method . It consists in regarding perceptions not as bringing us into immediate cognitive relation with a portion of external reality , but only as supply- ing us with the data from ...
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A. N. WHITEHEAD absolute abstract awareness becomes called Cassirer categorical proposition character claim co-ordinated coherence concepts concerned concrete universal conscious constructions Cosmological Argument depends Descartes described developed distinction drawn elements empirical ence existence express fact faith forms of thought function Gestalt Gestalt theory Hegel Hence human idealism idealist ideas intellectual interpretation intrinsic nature judgments of importance kind knowledge logical mathematical matter mean merely metaphysical analogies metaphysical theory mind mode models naïve realism natural theology neo-orthodox notion objects organism pattern percipient activity perspective phenomenal phenomenalist philosophy physical feelings physiological possible prehension presuppositions principle Professor Professor Price propositions question realissimum reality relation relationship religion religious symbolism response revelation scientific scientific models seek sensations sense data sense perception sensory significant spirit structure suggest symbolic forms theologian things Thomist Thomist philosophy tion total assertion tradition transcendent truth universe Whitehead whole word