( 1 ) Page 13: relatedness of 'actual entities.' An 'actual entity' is a res vera in the Cartesian sense of that term ;
( 2 ) Page 7: concrescence, of any one actual entity involves the other actual entities among its components. In this
( 3 ) Page 7: degree of abstraction involved when an actual entity is considered merely
( 4 ) Page 13: many actual entities, apart from one actual entity to which it can be referred. The reaction of the
( 5 ) Page 18: divergence from antecedent philosophical thought. These notions are, that of an 'actual entity ' that of a
( 6 ) Page 18: of 'misplaced concreteness.' In the three notions--actual entity, prehension, nexus-- an endeavour has
( 7 ) Page 18: themselves: God is an actual entity, and so is the most trivial puff of existence in far-off empty space.
( 8 ) Page 19: of 'substance' is transformed into that of actual entity'; and the notion of 'power' is transformed into the
( 9 ) Page 19: can be summarized as: no actual entity, then no reason.
( 10 ) Page 19: component elements are more abstract than in other modes of analysis. The analysis of an actual entity
( 11 ) Page 19: actual entities. This mode of analysis will be termed the 'division' of the actual entity in question. Each
( 12 ) Page 19: quota of prehensions. A prehension reproduces in itself the general characteristics of an actual entity: it
( 13 ) Page 19: emotion, and purpose, and valuation, and causation. In fact, any characteristic of an actual entity is
( 14 ) Page 19: incomplete partiality, a prehension is only a subordinate element in an actual entity. A reference to the
( 15 ) Page 22: (ii) That in the becoming of an actual entity, the potential unity of many entities in disjunctive
( 16 ) Page 22: diversity-- actual and non-actual--acquires the real unity of the one actual entity; so that the actual entity
( 17 ) Page 22: (iii) That in the becoming of an actual entity, novel prehensions, nexus, subjective forms,
( 18 ) Page 22: ordinate entities which each actual entity introduces into the world.
( 19 ) Page 23: in a particular actual entity, contributing to the definiteness of that actual entity.
( 20 ) Page 23: (viii) That two descriptions are required for an actual entity: (a) one which is analytical of its
( 21 ) Page 23: particular mode in which the potentiality of one actual entity is realized in another actual entity.
( 22 ) Page 23: (ix) That how an actual entity becomes constitutes what that actual entity is; so that the two
( 23 ) Page 23: (x) That the first analysis of an actual entity, into its most concrete elements, discloses it to be a
( 24 ) Page 23: actual entity in which that prehension is a concrete element; (b) the 'datum' which is prehended; (c) the
( 25 ) Page 24: its reason either in the character of some actual entity in the actual world of that concrescence, or in the
( 26 ) Page 24: search for one or more actual entities. It follows that any condition to be satisfied by one actual entity in
( 27 ) Page 25: (xxi) An entity is actual, when it has significance for itself. By this it is meant that an actual entity
( 28 ) Page 25: (xxii) That an actual entity by functioning in respect to itself plays diverse roles in self-formation
( 29 ) Page 25: (xxiii) That this self-functioning is the real internal constitution of an actual entity. It is the
( 30 ) Page 25: (xxiv) The functioning of one actual entity in the self-creation of another actual entity is the
( 31 ) Page 25: creation of an actual entity is the 'ingression' of the eternal object in the actual entity. (xxv) The final
( 32 ) Page 25: phase in the process of concrescence, constituting an actual entity, is one complex, fully determinate
( 33 ) Page 26: process of an actual entity, though unintegrated by reason of the incompleteness of the phase, are
( 34 ) Page 26: datum of the 'satisfaction' of an actual entity, so far as concerns the function of that element in the
( 35 ) Page 26: datum of an actual entity, so far as concerns the functions of those elements in that satisfaction.
( 36 ) Page 26: actual entity, or of the nexus, physically felt.
( 37 ) Page 27: (ix) The Category of Freedom and Determination. The concrescence of each individual actual entity
( 38 ) Page 28: each entity in respect to any actual entity or any nexus of actual entities.
( 39 ) Page 28: definite actual entity which is both novel and actual, relatively to that meaning, and to no other meaning
( 40 ) Page 28: of that phrase. Thus, conversely, each actual entity corresponds to a meaning of 'the actual world'
( 41 ) Page 28: actual world is a nexus; and the actual world of one actual entity sinks to the level of a subordinate nexus
( 42 ) Page 28: obligations imposed on the becoming of any particular actual entity arise from the constitutions of other
( 43 ) Page 29: actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned. An actual entity is at once the
( 44 ) Page 29: description can for a moment be lost sight of. The term 'subject' will be mostly employed when the actual
( 45 ) Page 30: absolutely initial data for an actual entity is a multiplicity. The treatment of a multiplicity as though it
( 46 ) Page 31: objectification of God in each derivate actual entity results in a graduation of the relevance of eternal
( 47 ) Page 40: This ideal realization of potentialities in a primordial actual entity constitutes the metaphysical stability
( 48 ) Page 40: Each actual entity is conceived as an act of experience arising out of data. It is a process of 'feeling'
( 49 ) Page 40: the actual entity in question. Feelings are variously specialized operations, effecting a transition into
( 50 ) Page 41: They replace the 'neutral stuff' of certain realistic philosophers. An actual entity is a process, and is not
( 51 ) Page 41: In Cartesian language, the essence of an actual entity consists solely in the fact that it is a
( 52 ) Page 41: the 'negative species.' An actual entity has a perfectly definite bond with each item in the universe. This
( 53 ) Page 41: actual entities in the actual world, relatively to a given actual entity as 'subject ' are necessarily 'felt' by
( 54 ) Page 41: (ii) that by the ontological principle every entity is felt by some actual entity,
( 55 ) Page 43: made. But 'decision' cannot be construed as a casual adjunct of an actual entity. It constitutes the very
( 56 ) Page 43: constituting a theory embracing the notions of 'actual entity,' 'givenness,' and 'process.' lust as
( 57 ) Page 43: additional meaning imported by the word 'actual' into the phrase 'actual entity.' 'Actuality' is the decision
( 58 ) Page 43: the total multiplicity of platonic forms is not 'given.' But in respect of each actual entity, there is
( 59 ) Page 44: feeling belonging to some actual entity. The point is that the actual subject which is merely conceiving
( 60 ) Page 44: the eternal object is not thereby in direct relationship to some other actual entity, apart from any other
( 61 ) Page 44: is neutral as to the fact of its physical ingression in any particular actual entity of the temporal world.
( 62 ) Page 44: Further, in the complete particular 'givenness' for an actual entity there is an element of
( 63 ) Page 44: multiplicity. Their synthesis in the final unity of one actual entity is another fact of 'givenness.' The
( 64 ) Page 44: termination is the 'satisfaction' of the actual entity. Thus the addition of another component alters this
( 65 ) Page 45: actual entity the balanced unity of the total 'givenness' excludes anything that is not given.
( 66 ) Page 45: This is the doctrine of the emergent unity of the superject. An actual entity is to be conceived
( 67 ) Page 45: This doctrine, that the final 'satisfaction' of an actual entity is intolerant of any addition, expresses
( 68 ) Page 45: internal constitution of an actual entity there is always some element which is contrary to an omitted
( 69 ) Page 45: way of considering the process whereby the actual entity arises from its data. Thus, in another sense,
( 70 ) Page 45: The 'formal' constitution of an actual entity is a process of transition from indetermination
( 71 ) Page 45: constitution of an actual entity is its terminal determination, considered as a complex of component
( 72 ) Page 45: determinates by reason of which the actual entity is a datum for the creative advance. The actual entity
( 73 ) Page 45: converts the 'not-given' for that fact into 'impossibility' for that fact. The individuality of an actual entity
( 74 ) Page 45: synthetic unity of an actual entity. This synthetic unity forbids the notion of mere addition to the
( 75 ) Page 46: be referable to an actual entity. Everything must be somewhere; and here 'somewhere' means 'some
( 76 ) Page 46: the non-temporal actual entity. Thus 'proximate relevance' means 'relevance as in the primordial mind of
( 77 ) Page 46: states that 'The concrescence of each individual actual entity is internally determined and
( 78 ) Page 48: lectures, both these notions involve a misconception. An actual entity cannot be described, even
( 79 ) Page 48: inadequately, by universals; because other actual entities do enter into the description of any one actual
( 80 ) Page 49: no perception of a particular actual entity. He arrives at the belief in the actual entity by 'the faculty of
( 81 ) Page 50: present in a subject.' on the contrary, according to this principle an actual entity is present in other actual
( 82 ) Page 50: actual entity is present in every other actual entity. The philosophy of organism [80] is mainly devoted to
( 83 ) Page 50: 'objectification.' The Aristotelian phrase suggests the crude notion that one actual entity is added to
( 84 ) Page 50: elements which express how any one actual entity is constituted by its synthesis of other actual entities,
( 85 ) Page 51: An actual entity is concrete because it is such a particular concrescence of the universe.
( 86 ) Page 51: Experience.' His true topic is the analysis of the types of experience enjoyed by an actual entity. But this
( 87 ) Page 51: pre-Kantian phraseology, and say that the experience enjoyed by an actual entity is that entity formaliter.
( 88 ) Page 51: The actual entity is composite and analysable; and its 'ideas' express how. and in what sense, other things
( 89 ) Page 52: synthetic concrescence whereby the many things of the universe become the one actual entity.
( 90 ) Page 52: [82] The 'prehension' of one actual entity by another actual entity is the complete transaction,
( 91 ) Page 52: of the prehension of an eternal object by an actual entity; namely, The 'positive prehension' of an entity
( 92 ) Page 52: as elements for the actual entity in question, are called 'objects' for that thing. There are four main types
( 93 ) Page 52: number. This notion of a direct 'idea' (or 'feeling') of an actual entity is a presupposition of all common
( 94 ) Page 53: experience consciousness. It is a special element in the subjective forms of some feelings. Thus an actual
( 95 ) Page 53: notion of an actual entity. the complex of ideas disclosed in consciousness would have at once turned
( 96 ) Page 53: into the complex constitution of the actual entity disclosed in its own consciousness, so far as it is
( 97 ) Page 54: The point is that Locke entirely endorses the doctrine that an actual entity arises out of a complex
( 98 ) Page 55: either one actual entity, or (more frequently) is a nexus of actual entities with immediacies mutually
( 99 ) Page 55: means one actual entity at the moment in question. But what Locke is explicitly concerned with is the
( 100 ) Page 56: respectively. In other words, an 'exterior thing' is either one 'actual entity,' or is a 'society' with a 'defining
( 101 ) Page 56: 'power,' we must have a correct notion of how each individual actual entity contributes to the datum from
( 102 ) Page 56: procures a corresponding identity between their contributions to the datum of any subsequent actual
( 103 ) Page 56: The perceptive constitution of the actual entity presents the problem, How can the other actual
( 104 ) Page 56: actual entity in question? This is the problem of the solidarity of the universe. The classical doctrines of
( 105 ) Page 58: forms of the objectifications of actual entities for each other; the composite character of an actual
( 106 ) Page 58: that the 'power' of one actual entity on the other is simply how the former is objectified in the
( 107 ) Page 58: In 'causal objectification' what is felt subjectively by the objectified actual entity is transmitted
( 108 ) Page 58: actual entity is then exerting 'power.' In this type of objectification the eternal objects, relational between
( 109 ) Page 58: object and subject, express the formal constitution of the objectified actual entity. .
( 110 ) Page 58: namely, that the doctrine of internal relations makes it impossible to attribute 'change' to any actual
( 111 ) Page 59: Every actual entity is what it is, and is with its definite status in the universe, determined by its internal
( 112 ) Page 59: depend." Locke makes it plain (cf. II, II, I ) that by a 'simple idea' he means the ingression in the actual
( 113 ) Page 59: actual entity, require a real constitution for that entity. Now in the philosophy of organism, passing
( 114 ) Page 59: objects function by introducing the multiplicity of actual entities as constitutive of the actual entity in
( 115 ) Page 59: other words the actual entity, in virtue of being what it is, is also where it is. It is somewhere because it is
( 116 ) Page 60: actual entities which are formative of the actual entity in question, and an 'abstract essence' in which the
( 117 ) Page 60: the notion of an unspecified actual entity. Thus the real [94] essence involves real objectifications of
( 118 ) Page 60: one actual entity with the same real essence. For the real essence indicates 'where' the entity is, that is to
( 119 ) Page 64: into the experience of a subject cannot be construed as the simple objectification of the actual entity to
( 120 ) Page 65: objects, considered merely in respect to the generality of their natures. Thus, relatively to any actual
( 121 ) Page 65: an actual entity, is nothing else than the actual world itself in its character of a possibility for the process
( 122 ) Page 65: potentiality is absolute, and real potentiality is relative to some actual entity, taken as a standpoint
( 123 ) Page 65: always mean the community of all actual entities, including the primordial actual entity called 'God' and
( 124 ) Page 67: division; an actual entity effects this division. The objectification of the contemporary world merely
( 125 ) Page 67: any actual entity; for they express how all actual entities are in the solidarity of one world. With the
( 126 ) Page 67: becoming of any actual entity what was previously potential in the space-time continuum is now the
( 127 ) Page 67: actual entity. The factors in the actual world whereby this determination is effected will be discussed at a
( 128 ) Page 67: actual entity in its relationship to other actual entities is in this sense somewhere in the continuum, and
( 129 ) Page 67: solidarity the continuum expresses. Thus the continuum is present in each actual entity, and each actual
( 130 ) Page 68: space, it means that every actual entity in the temporal world is to be credited with a spatial volume for
( 131 ) Page 68: connection with the presumption that an actual entity is an act of experience. The authority of William
( 132 ) Page 72: mind either of 'the vulgar' or of Newton. This distinction is that between (i) an actual entity, (ii) an
( 133 ) Page 72: is prehended in the positive experience of each actual entity. In this sense, it is Kant's 'form of intuition';
( 134 ) Page 73: organism starts by agreeing with 'the vulgar' except that the term 'sensible object' is replaced by 'actual
( 135 ) Page 73: fact emerges that we must identify the atomized quantum of extension correlative to an actual entity,
( 136 ) Page 73: absolute place, which in its nature is immovable, also holds. Thus an actual entity never moves: it is
( 137 ) Page 73: 'actual entity' more closely with our ordinary habits of thought, I will also use the term 'actual occasion'
( 138 ) Page 73: in the place of the term 'actual entity.' Thus the actual world is built up of actual occasions; and by the
( 139 ) Page 76: extensive continuum is actual in the full sense of being an actual entity. But he refrains from the
( 140 ) Page 76: Both Descartes and Locke, in order to close the gap between idea representing and 'actual entity
( 141 ) Page 76: prehension of all actual entities. It also finds exemplification in each actual entity considered
( 142 ) Page 77: phrase 'actual occasion' is used in the place of 'actual entity. . . . Descartes' doctrine of the physical world
( 143 ) Page 77: In 'the 'organic' theory, (i) there is only one type of temporal actual entity; (ii) each such actual
( 144 ) Page 77: continuous in respect to the pot6ntiality from which it arises, but each actual entity is atomic, (vi) the
( 145 ) Page 77: perception of a contemporary stone, for example, the separate individuality of each actual entity
( 146 ) Page 78: relations; but it is numerically self-identical in its character of one actual entity throughout its accidental
( 147 ) Page 78: the ultimate actual entity.
( 148 ) Page 79: of the notion of an actual entity which is characterized by essential qualities, and remains numerically
( 149 ) Page 79: actual entity never changes, and that it is the outcome of whatever can be ascribed to it in the way of
( 150 ) Page 80: and by construing it as the definition of 'actuality.' This amounts to the assumption that each actual entity
( 151 ) Page 80: actual entity springs from that universe which there is for it. Causation is nothing else than one outcome
( 152 ) Page 80: of the principle that every actual entity has to house its actual world.
( 153 ) Page 80: potentiality for a new creation, acquires the unity of an actual entity. The physical field is, in this way,
( 154 ) Page 81: of time hits the mark better: time is 'perpetually perishing.' In the organic philosophy an actual entity
( 155 ) Page 82: The pragmatic use of the actual entity, constituting its static life, lies in the future. The creature perishes
( 156 ) Page 82: This conception of an actual entity in the fluent world is little more than an expansion of a
( 157 ) Page 83: order assumes primary importance. No actual entity can rise beyond what the actual world as a datum
( 158 ) Page 83: more than 'givenness ' though it presupposes 'givenness': 'disorder' is also 'given.' Each actual entity
( 159 ) Page 84: there is . . . an ideal peculiar to each particular actual entity, and arising from the dominant components
( 160 ) Page 84: ideal peculiar to each actual entity is Platonic.
( 161 ) Page 84: Thus the notion of 'order' is bound up with the notion of an actual entity as involving an
( 162 ) Page 84: provides the individual element in the composition of the actual entity that element which has led to the
( 163 ) Page 84: the analysis of the components in the concrescence out of which the actual entity arises. The intensity of
( 164 ) Page 85: No actual entity can be conscious of its own satisfaction; for such knowledge would be a
( 165 ) Page 85: and the actual entity as self-creating creature passes into its immortal function of part-creator of the
( 166 ) Page 85: transcendent world. In its self-creation the actual entity is guided by its ideal of itself as individual
( 167 ) Page 85: which the actual entity is a determinate process.
( 168 ) Page 85: constitution of an actual entity. Mental operations do not necessarily involve consciousness. The
( 169 ) Page 87: generically allied to, its older meaning in physics. The ultimate fact in the constitution of an actual entity
( 170 ) Page 87: The 'objectifications' of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity,
( 171 ) Page 87: renewal of the process in the concrescence of actualities beyond that satisfied superject. Thus an actual
( 172 ) Page 87: qualifying the transcendent creativity. In the case of the primordial actual entity, which is God, there is
( 173 ) Page 88: of his subjective aim which is the intensification of 'formal immediacy.' It is to be noted that every actual
( 174 ) Page 88: actuality. And also it is to be noted that every actual entity, including God, is a creature transcended by
( 175 ) Page 88: In the subsequent discussion, 'actual entity' will be taken to mean a conditioned actual entity of
( 176 ) Page 89: categories applying to an actual entity in order to show how this can be the case. But there is a derivative
( 177 ) Page 90: The metaphysical characteristics of an actual entity -- in the proper general sense of
( 178 ) Page 92: term. In such an ideal state, what is 'given' for any actual entity is the outcome of thwarting, contrary
( 179 ) Page 93: actual entity immanent in the actual world, but transcending any finite cosmic epoch--a being at once
( 180 ) Page 94:
( 181 ) Page 110: functioning which in germ, or in mere capacity, are represented in the constitution of each actual entity.
( 182 ) Page 110: character of an actual entity should include God, as well as the lowliest actual occasion, though there is a
( 183 ) Page 110: The character of an actual entity is finally governed by its datum; whatever be the freedom of
( 184 ) Page 111: An actual entity must be classified in respect to its [170] 'satisfaction, and this arises out of its
( 185 ) Page 111: feeling arising from another factor. In other words, the specific constitution of the actual entity in
( 186 ) Page 112: objectification in the actual entity in question. This background represents those entities in the actual
( 187 ) Page 114: other eternal objects. They are not contrasts, or patterns. Sensa are necessary as components in any actual
( 188 ) Page 114: into any actual entity, and from its potentiality of contrasts and of patterned relationships with other
( 189 ) Page 115: potentialities for patterned contrasts. An actual entity with this absolute narrowness has an ideal faintness
( 190 ) Page 115: ingression in an actual entity, and this involves the synthesis of all ingredients with data derived from a
( 191 ) Page 115: According to this account, the experience of the simplest grade of actual entity is to be conceived
( 192 ) Page 117: in the higher phases, exhibits the constitution of an actual entity under the guise of receptivity. In the
( 193 ) Page 123: presentational immediacy does not disclose any causal influence, either whereby one actual entity is
( 194 ) Page 123: another perceived actual entity. The conclusion is that, in so far as concerns their disclosure by
( 195 ) Page 126: preceding section, between the 'presented locus' of an actual entity, and a locus in 'unison of becoming'
( 196 ) Page 126: actual entity must be qualified.
( 197 ) Page 133: 'simple.' But there is no such fact as absolute freedom; every actual entity possesses only such freedom
( 198 ) Page 136: every actual entity endures, and the other that "s a new fact with its measure of change. every morning is
( 199 ) Page 140: that an actual entity is at once a process, and is atomic; so that in no sense is it the sum of its parts. Hume
( 200 ) Page 141: and Hume, are replaced by the phrases 'the actual entity ' and 'the actual occasion ' these phrases being
( 201 ) Page 144: to be an actual entity? He found three kinds of actual entities, namely, cogitating minds, extended bodies,
( 202 ) Page 144: and God. His word for an actual entity was 'substance.' The fundamental proposition, whereby the
( 203 ) Page 145: (for Descartes ) , or a contributory, element in the composition of an immediate actual entity. This is also
( 204 ) Page 145: [220] evidence of a world of actual entities, if the immediate actual entity discloses them as essential to
( 205 ) Page 146: which he would employ to analyse the notions of an 'actual entity' and of 'reality.' But his Essay, however,
( 206 ) Page 147: passage of time is that something is 'perpetually perishing.' If he had grasped the notion that the actual
( 207 ) Page 147: In the philosophy of organism it is assumed that an actual entity is composite. 'Actuality' is the
( 208 ) Page 147: proposition is entertained in the constitution of some one actual entity, or severally in the constitutions of
( 209 ) Page 148: actual entity, taken by itself for analysis. For an actual entity cannot be a member of a 'common world,'
( 210 ) Page 148: actual entity. This conclusion has already been employed under the title of the 'principle of relativity.'
( 211 ) Page 148: as an abstract thought, or however remote as an actual entity, has its own gradation of relevance, as
( 212 ) Page 148: has just that relevance whereby it finds its status in the constitution of that actual entity. It will be
( 213 ) Page 148: items in the same actual entity. This fact of interconnection is asserted in the 'principle of [225]
( 214 ) Page 148: in the constitution of one actual entity. If some group of items, with their variety of relevance, can
( 215 ) Page 148: specific essences of one genus, whereby an actual entity may belong to one or other of the species but
( 216 ) Page 149: And they also express how the constitution of any one actual entity is analysable into phases, related
( 217 ) Page 149: constitution of the actual entity in question. An eternal object in abstraction from any one particular
( 218 ) Page 149: actual entity is a potentiality for ingression into actual entities. In its ingression into any one actual entity,
( 219 ) Page 149: actual entity is not to be conceived as the sheer evocation of that eternal object from 'not-being' into
( 220 ) Page 149: retains its message of alternatives which the actual entity has avoided. In the constitution of an actual
( 221 ) Page 149: Essay, means the determinate ingression of an eternal object into the actual entity in question. But he
( 222 ) Page 149: principle of relativity. The four stages constitutive of an actual entity have been stated above in Part II,
( 223 ) Page 150: transition from the settled actual world to the new actual entity relatively to which that settlement is
( 224 ) Page 150: 'settlement' which an actual entity 'finds' is its datum. It is to be conceived as a limited perspective of the
( 225 ) Page 150: 'decision,' is how the actual entity, having attained its individual 'satisfaction ' thereby adds a determinate
( 226 ) Page 150: into determinate linkages attaining the actual unity of an individual actual entity. The actual entity, in
( 227 ) Page 150: efficacious condition for its attainment. The determinate unity of an actual entity is bound together by
( 228 ) Page 150: According to this account, efficient causation expresses the transition from actual entity to actual
( 229 ) Page 150: the immediate self from the datum. This latter becoming is the immediate actual process. An actual
( 230 ) Page 150: endurance of an actual entity. He writes (Meditation 11): "I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time
( 231 ) Page 152: concrescence of an actual entity is the way in which the antecedent universe enters into the constitution
( 232 ) Page 152: from Kant. The doctrine gives each actual entity two worlds, one world of mere appearance, and the
( 233 ) Page 153: The process whereby an actual entity, starting from its objective content, attains its individual
( 234 ) Page 153: is individual to the actual entity; it expresses how the datum, which involves the actual world, becomes a
( 235 ) Page 153: selective concrescence of feelings whereby an actual entity becomes itself. It must be remembered that
( 236 ) Page 154: whereby the actual entity is its particular individual self; to use Descartes' phrase, 'requiring nothing but
( 237 ) Page 154: itself in order to exist.' In the conception of the actual entity in its phase of satisfaction, the entity has
( 238 ) Page 154: determine the final phase of determinate individualization. Thus an actual entity, on its subjective side, is
( 239 ) Page 154: forms of the feelings, elaborated into definiteness through stages of process. An actual entity achieves its
( 240 ) Page 160: datum for experience: the notion 'this sensation of greyness' has no reference to any other actual entity.
( 241 ) Page 161: Its 'importance' is therefore no necessary element in the concrete actual entity. In the case of any one such
( 242 ) Page 161: it happens daily for most of us, when we sleep at night and wake in the morning. Every actual entity has
( 243 ) Page 161: attribute for an actual entity, or as the final culmination whereby unity of experience is attained?
( 244 ) Page 164: The immanent decision, whereby there is a supervening of stages in an actual entity, is always the
( 245 ) Page 164: completion as is proper to a single actual entity. This determination originates with conceptual
( 246 ) Page 164: characteristic of decision. Transcendent decision includes God's decision. He is the actual entity in virtue
( 247 ) Page 164: functioning whereby an eternal object has ingression into the constitution of an actual entity: (i) as dative
( 248 ) Page 165: mere identity, are generic terms. Two components in the constitution of an actual entity are specifically
( 249 ) Page 166: one [252] actual entity, the 'superject' which is familiarly termed the 'subject.' In a sense this satisfaction
( 250 ) Page 166: actual entity becomes constitutes what that actual entity is. This principle states that the being of a res
( 251 ) Page 166: vera is constituted by its 'becoming.' The way in which one actual entity is qualified by other actual
( 252 ) Page 186: occasions whose actual worlds include the logical subjects of the proposition. When an actual entity
( 253 ) Page 186: of that actual entity. If by the decision of the concrescence, the proposition has been admitted into
( 254 ) Page 188: A proposition, in abstraction from any particular actual entity which may be realizing it in feeling, is
( 255 ) Page 188: case, this nexus may comprise any actual entity whatsoever.
( 256 ) Page 188: The presupposed logical subjects may not be in the actual world of some actual entity. In this case, the
( 257 ) Page 188: hypothetical future beyond that actual entity. The proposition itself awaits its logical subjects.
( 258 ) Page 188: The primary mode of realization of a proposition in an actual entity is not by judgment, but by
( 259 ) Page 190: of another actual occasion. Each actual entity is a throb of experience including the actual world within
( 260 ) Page 198: reference to the actual world, we rarely consider an individual actual entity. The objects of our thoughts
( 261 ) Page 199: historic routes, might find a and b exemplified in one actual entity. It is as though the cup and the saucer
( 262 ) Page 199: that any actual entity, occurring in such an environment of faintly coordinated achievement, achieves the
( 263 ) Page 200: the universe is merely derivative from its solidarity in each actual entity. It must be held that judgment
( 264 ) Page 200: positive fact in an actual entity;
( 265 ) Page 203: Every actual entity is in its nature essentially social; and this in two ways. First, the outlines of
( 266 ) Page 211: An instance of concrescence is termed an 'actual entity'-or, equivalently, an 'actual occasion.'
( 267 ) Page 212: question. The analysis of the formal constitution of an actual entity has given three stages in the process
( 268 ) Page 212: that, in respect to all modes of feeling and to all entities in the universe, the satisfied actual entity
( 269 ) Page 212: with other entities.' Hence, 'to be a real component of an actual entity' is in some way 'to realize this
( 270 ) Page 213: creativity. An actual entity, or a phase of an actual entity, is more than that; but, at least, it is that.
( 271 ) Page 213: constitution' of the actual entity in question. In obedience to a prevalent misconception, Locke termed
( 272 ) Page 213: negation of individual origination; and the process passes passively to its satisfaction. The actual entity is
( 273 ) Page 215: Secondly, each actual entity is itself only describable as an organic process. It repeats in
( 274 ) Page 215: question. Each actual entity bears in its constitution the 'reasons' why its conditions are what they are.
( 275 ) Page 215: Thus each actual entity, although complete so far as concerns its microscopic process, is yet
( 276 ) Page 219: analysis' of an actual entity.
( 277 ) Page 219: An actual entity is a process in the course of which many operations with incomplete subjective
( 278 ) Page 219: The process itself is the constitution of the actual entity; in Locke's phrase, it is the 'real internal
( 279 ) Page 219: actual entity is in itself. 'formaliter.' The terms 'formal' and 'formally' are here used in this sense.
( 280 ) Page 219: The terminal unity of operation, here called the 'satisfaction,' embodies what the actual entity is
( 281 ) Page 219: the satisfaction. In Descartes' phraseology, the satisfaction is the actual entity considered as analysable in
( 282 ) Page 220: It is the actual entity as a definite, determinate, settled fact, stubborn and with unavoidable consequences.
( 283 ) Page 220: The actual entity as described by the morphology of its satisfaction is the actual entity 'spatialized,' to use
( 284 ) Page 220: satisfied; but its effects are all to be described in terms of its 'satisfaction.' The 'effects' of an actual entity
( 285 ) Page 220: of an actual entity is that it can be considered both 'objectively' and 'formally.' The 'objective' aspect is
( 286 ) Page 220: morphological so far as that actual entity is concerned: by this it is meant that the process involved is
( 287 ) Page 220: so far as that actual entity is concerned: by this it is meant that the process involved is immanent in it.
( 288 ) Page 220: But the objective consideration is pragmatic. It is the consideration of the actual entity in respect to its
( 289 ) Page 220: consequences. In the present chapter the emphasis is laid upon the formal consideration of an actual
( 290 ) Page 220: which conditions the concrescence in question. The satisfaction of each actual entity is an element in the
( 291 ) Page 220: The possibility of finite truths depends on the fact that the satisfaction of an actual entity is
( 292 ) Page 221: objectifications of one actual entity in the constitutions of other actual entities equally depends upon
( 293 ) Page 221: this .same divisible character, whereby the actual entity is conveyed in the particularity of some one of
( 294 ) Page 221: A feeling cannot be abstracted from the actual entity entertaining it. This actual entity is termed the
( 295 ) Page 221: which each actual entity is a particular. It is one aspect of its own subject.
( 296 ) Page 222: constituting the unity of that feeling. An actual entity feels as it does feel in order to be the actual entity
( 297 ) Page 222: characteristic of self-causation. For this reason every actual entity also shares with God the characteristic
( 298 ) Page 222: actuality is self-realizing, and whatever is self-realizing is an actuality. An actual entity is at once the
( 299 ) Page 223: content, more fully conditioned, and more stable. For in its objective efficacy an actual entity can only
( 300 ) Page 223: Category I. The many feelings which belong to an incomplete phase in the process of an actual entity,
( 301 ) Page 225: With this amplification the doctrine, that the primary phase of a temporal actual entity is physical, is
( 302 ) Page 225: creator of each temporal actual entity. But the phrase is apt to be misleading by [344] its suggestion that
( 303 ) Page 225: an actual entity, so far as concerns the function of that element in that satisfaction. This is the 'category of
( 304 ) Page 225: Category III. There can be no 'coalescence' of diverse elements in the objective datum of an actual
( 305 ) Page 226: light of a 'medium' leading up to the concrescence of the actual entity in question. It will be remembered
( 306 ) Page 226: Any actual entity, which we will name A, feels other actual entities, which we will name B, C, and D.
( 307 ) Page 227: It is for this reason that what an actual entity has avoided as a datum for feeling may yet be an important
( 308 ) Page 227: objective Identity. The same entity, be it actual entity or be it eternal object, cannot be felt twice in the
( 309 ) Page 227: object. The analysis of an actual entity is only intellectual, or, to speak with a wider scope, only objective.
( 310 ) Page 227: only be felt as a process, that is to say, as in passage. The actual entity is divisible; but is in fact
( 311 ) Page 227: [348] The third category is concerned with the antithesis to oneness, namely, diversity. An actual
( 312 ) Page 229: is the sense in which the term 'particular' is applied to an actual entity.
( 313 ) Page 230: We thus arrive at the notion of the actual world of any actual entity, as a nexus whose objectification
( 314 ) Page 230: constitutes the complete unity of objective datum for the physical feeling of that actual entity. This actual
( 315 ) Page 230: actual entity, and ever afterwards having its status in actual worlds as an unalterable fact, dated and
( 316 ) Page 230: universals, this contrast is located in that actual entity to which it belongs as first originated in one of its
( 317 ) Page 231: determined actual entity of the actual world. The nexus involves realization somewhere. This is the first
( 318 ) Page 231: to a single actual entity, other than the subject of the feeling; and in the other case the data reduce to a
( 319 ) Page 231: There are thus two laws respecting the feelings constituting the complex satisfaction of an actual
( 320 ) Page 232: The universe is always one, since there is no surveying it except from an actual entity which unifies it.
( 321 ) Page 232: and (iii) that of transmuted feelings. In a simple physical feeling, the initial datum is a single actual
( 322 ) Page 232: the concrescence of a novel actual entity. The feeling is always novel in reference to its data; since its
( 323 ) Page 233: Thus the actual entity, as viewed morphologically through its 'satisfaction,' is novel in reference to any
( 324 ) Page 233: 'subject-superject.' This doctrine of 'feeling' is the central doctrine respecting the becoming of an actual
( 325 ) Page 235: never free itself from the incurable atomicity [360] of the actual entity to which it belongs. The selection
( 326 ) Page 236: datum is another single actual entity, and the objective datum is another feeling entertained by the latter
( 327 ) Page 236: A simple physical feeling is an act of causation. The actual entity which is the initial datum is the
( 328 ) Page 236: is the actual entity 'conditioned' by the effect. This 'conditioned' actual entity will also be called the
( 329 ) Page 236: perccption, devoid of consciousness. The actual entity, which is the initial datum is the actual entity
( 330 ) Page 236: actual entity which is the common subject of all these feelings.
( 331 ) Page 238: The novel actual entity, which is the effect, is the reproduction of the many actual entities of the
( 332 ) Page 239: a phase of these [366] primary feelings. There is, however, a difference between the species. An actual
( 333 ) Page 239: distinctive importance. But in some way, by some trace of causal feeling, the remote actual entity is
( 334 ) Page 239: as concerns their functionings as objects, this is the great distinction between an actual entity and an
( 335 ) Page 239: feelings. These contrasted aspects will be called the physical and the mental poles of an actual entity. No
( 336 ) Page 239: Thus an actual entity is essentially dipolar, with its physical and mental poles; and even the
( 337 ) Page 240: determinants. If the actual entity be this, then by the nature of the case it is not thct or that. The fact of
( 338 ) Page 240: belonging to the mental pole of an actual entity.
( 339 ) Page 244: nowhere. Everything in the actual world is referable to some actual entity. It is either transmitted from an
( 340 ) Page 244: actual entity from which each temporal concrescence receives that initial aim from which its self-
( 341 ) Page 245: belonging to this special case has as its datum only one actual entity, and this actual entity is objectified
( 342 ) Page 245: 'hybrid physical feelings.' In a 'pure physical feeling' the actual entity which is the datum is objectified by
( 343 ) Page 246: physical [376] world. When the datum is an actual entity of a highly complex grade, the physical feeling
( 344 ) Page 246: In a 'hybrid physical feeling' the actual entity forming the datum is objectified by one of its own
( 345 ) Page 248: definiteness of the actual entity, or oft the nexus, physically felt.
( 346 ) Page 248: Every actual entity is 'in time' so far as its physical pole is concerned, and is 'out of time' so far as its
( 347 ) Page 249: actual entity. Also, in the complex subsequent integrations, we find that the conceptual counterpart has a
( 348 ) Page 250: actual entity. Every eternal object has entered into the conceptual feelings of God. Thus, a more
( 349 ) Page 253: prehension of a single actual entity. It will be found that transmuted feelings are very analogous to
( 350 ) Page 253: feelings in one actual entity to physical feelings either in a supervening phase of itself or in a later actual
( 351 ) Page 254: mentality, though in themselves they do not amount to consciousness. But an actual entity which
( 352 ) Page 255: their own creature. The point to be noticed is that the actual entity, in a state of process during which it is
( 353 ) Page 257: actual entity, if the feeling be simple, or is a determinate nexus of actual entities, if the physical feeling
( 354 ) Page 258: Such an actual entity is termed a 'prehending subject' of the proposition. Even a prehending subject is not
( 355 ) Page 259: subjects are the actual entities which they are. Thus no actual entity can feel a proposition, if its actual
( 356 ) Page 266: subject no objectified actual entity can play two disconnected parts.
( 357 ) Page 267: of functioning of each actual entity in the two factors of the generic contrast respectively is realized in the
( 358 ) Page 267: objectified actual entity in question contributes to the objectified nexus in the physical feeling, and the
( 359 ) Page 267: mere potentiality of the same actual entity for playing its assigned part in the predicative pattern of the
( 360 ) Page 271: feeling. In this generic contrast each actual entity has its contrast of two-way functioning. One way is its
( 361 ) Page 283: [433] THERE are two distinct ways of 'dividing' the satisfaction of an actual entity into component
( 362 ) Page 283: relationship to each other. The actual entity is seen as a process, there is a growth from phase to phase;
( 363 ) Page 283: Physical time makes its appearance in the 'coordinate' analysis of the 'satisfaction.' The actual entity is
( 364 ) Page 284: receiving its definition from the immediate concrescent actuality in question. Each actual entity arises
( 365 ) Page 284: an actual entity.
( 366 ) Page 285: But it is only the physical pole of the actual entity which is thus divisible. The mental pole is incurably
( 367 ) Page 285: other words, the conceptual feelings have regard to the complete actual entity, and not to the coordinate
( 368 ) Page 285: entities on the same level as the actual entity from which they are derived.
( 369 ) Page 285: a coordinate division and a true actual entity is, or is not, relevant. In so far as it is not relevant we are
( 370 ) Page 285: are, (i) the parent actual entity, and (ii) the proposition which is the potentiality of that superject having
( 371 ) Page 286: satisfaction of any actual entity, conform.
( 372 ) Page 287: common extensiveness. If we confine our attention to the sub-division of an actual entity into coordinate
( 373 ) Page 287: An actual entity, in its character of being a physical occasion, is an act of blind perceptivity of the
( 374 ) Page 289: An actual entity considered in reference to the publicity of things is a 'superject'; namely, it arises
( 375 ) Page 289: An actual entity considered in reference to the privacy of things is a 'subject'; namely, it is a moment
( 376 ) Page 290: the concrescence of an actual entity in one of three ways: (i) it can be an element in the definiteness of
( 377 ) Page 290: some objectified nexus, or of some single actual entity, which is the datum of a feeling; (ii) it can be an
( 378 ) Page 291: the second mode. It is always. in its unrestricted realization, an element in the definiteness of an actual
( 379 ) Page 291: introducing one actual entity, or nexus, into the real internal constitution of another actual entity. Its sole
( 380 ) Page 291: of that nexus for that actual entity. This is a real physical fact, with its physical consequences. Eternal
( 381 ) Page 291: feeling of one actual entity. Al may be that component of A's constitution through which A is objectified
( 382 ) Page 292: Thus the coordinate division of an actual entity produces feelings whose subjective forms are
( 383 ) Page 308: throughout its adventure of self-formation. The actual entity is the product of the interplay of physical
( 384 ) Page 312: antecedent feeling by an antecedent actual entity in the body. Thus in this antecedent entity there is a
( 385 ) Page 313: actual entity defines the 'seat' and the 'focal region' and the intermediary regions, and more vaguely the
( 386 ) Page 345: finite. An actual entity in the temporal world is to be conceived as originated by physical experience with
( 1 ) Page 13: relatedness of 'actual entities.' An 'actual entity' is a res vera in the Cartesian sense of that term ;
( 2 ) Page 7: concrescence, of any one actual entity involves the other actual entities among its components. In this
( 3 ) Page 13: many actual entities, apart from one actual entity to which it can be referred. The reaction of the
( 4 ) Page 18: 'actual entities' also termed 'actual occasions' are the final real things of which the world is made
( 5 ) Page 18: up. There is no going behind actual entities to find anything [28] more real. They differ among
( 6 ) Page 18: actuality exemplifies all are on the same level. The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these
( 7 ) Page 18: In its recurrence to the notion of a plurality of actual entities the philosophy of organism is through
( 8 ) Page 19: principle that the reasons for things are always to be found in the composite nature of definite actual
( 9 ) Page 19: temporal actual entities for reasons which refer to a particular environment. The ontological principle
( 10 ) Page 19: actual entities. This mode of analysis will be termed the 'division' of the actual entity in question. Each
( 11 ) Page 19: account of mental substance. The philosophy of organism, in its scheme for one type of actual entities,
( 12 ) Page 20: actual entities involve each other by reason of their prehensions of each other. There are thus real
( 13 ) Page 20: individual facts of the togetherness of actual entities, which are real, individual, and particular, in the
( 14 ) Page 20: particular fact of togetherness among actual entities is called a 'nexus' (plural form is written 'nexus').The
( 15 ) Page 22: (i) actual entities (also termed Actual occasions) or Final Realities, or Res. Verae.
( 16 ) Page 22: Among these eight categories of existence, actual entities and eternal objects stand out with a certain
( 17 ) Page 22: (i) That the actual world is a process, and that the process is the becoming of actual entities. Thus
( 18 ) Page 22: (v) That no two actual entities originate from an identical universe; though the difference between the
( 19 ) Page 22: two universes only consists in some actual entities, included in one and not in the other, and in the sub-
( 20 ) Page 23: The eternal objects are the same for all actual entities. The nexus of actual entities in the universe
( 21 ) Page 23: becoming of actual entities; and that its analysis only discloses other eternal objects. It is a pure potential.
( 22 ) Page 23: potentiality for 'objectification' in the becoming of other actual entities, and (b) another which is
( 23 ) Page 23: 'subjective form' which is how that subject prehends that datum. Prehensions of actual entities i.e.,
( 24 ) Page 24: (xiv) That a nexus is a set of actual entities in the unity of the relatedness constituted by their
( 25 ) Page 24: (xv) That a proposition is the unity of certain actual entities in their potentiality for forming a nexus,
( 26 ) Page 24: complex eternal [36] object. The actual entities involved are termed the 'logical subjects ' the complex
( 27 ) Page 24: ontological principle means that actual entities are the only reasons; so that to search for a reason is to
( 28 ) Page 24: its process expresses a fact either about the 'real internal constitutions' of some other actual entities, or
( 29 ) Page 25: (xix) That the fundamental types of entities are actual entities, and eternal objects; and that the other
( 30 ) Page 25: (xx) That to 'function' means to contribute determination to the actual entities in the nexus of some
( 31 ) Page 25: a nexus of actual entities.
( 32 ) Page 27: analogous simple physical feelings of various actual entities in its actual world, then, in a subsequent
( 33 ) Page 27: nexus containing those prehended actual entities among its members, or of some part of that nexus. In
( 34 ) Page 28: each entity in respect to any actual entity or any nexus of actual entities.
( 35 ) Page 28: actual entities.
( 36 ) Page 29: 'form.' Forms suffer changing relations; actual entities 'perpetually perish' subjectively, but are immortal
( 37 ) Page 29: actual entities this potentiality of ingression is realized. Thus they involve indetermination in a sense
( 38 ) Page 31: relevance for select eternal objects by reason of their ingression into derivate actual entities belonging to
( 39 ) Page 31: from his physical prehensions of the derivative actual entities (cf. Part v).
( 40 ) Page 32: 'objective immortality' of actual entities. Thus God has objective immortality in respect to his primordial
( 41 ) Page 34: definiteness [51] of each of its included actual entities, and (ii) this common element of form arises in
( 42 ) Page 35: time and space. For example, they form the subject-matter of the science of dynamics. actual entities
( 43 ) Page 40: description of the universe as a solidarity 3 of many actual entities.
( 44 ) Page 41: actual entities in the actual world, relatively to a given actual entity as 'subject ' are necessarily 'felt' by
( 45 ) Page 41: (i) actual entities form a system, in the sense of entering into each other's constitutions,
( 46 ) Page 43: referable to one or more actual entities, because in separation from actual entities there is nothing,
( 47 ) Page 43: decisions for other actual entities which supersede it. Thus the ontological principle is the first stage in
( 48 ) Page 44: recognition does not involve a necessary reference to any definite actual entities of the temporal world is
( 49 ) Page 44: An eternal object is always a potentiality for actual entities; but in itself, as conceptually felt, it
( 50 ) Page 46: proximate relevance to actual entities for which it is unrealized. This 'proximate relevance' reappears in
( 51 ) Page 48: objects,' and 'actual entities.' These terms, 'universals' and 'particulars,' both in the suggestiveness of the
( 52 ) Page 48: inadequately, by universals; because other actual entities do enter into the description of any one actual
( 53 ) Page 48: of other actual entities. The contrary opinion led to the collapse of Descartes' many substances into
( 54 ) Page 49: universals are discoverable. For the philosophy of organism, the primary data are always actual entities
( 55 ) Page 49: Humian terms, but adds an apprehension of particular actual entities in virtue of an 'inspectio' and a
( 56 ) Page 50: present in a subject.' on the contrary, according to this principle an actual entity is present in other actual
( 57 ) Page 50: elements which express how any one actual entity is constituted by its synthesis of other actual entities,
( 58 ) Page 52: of objects, namely, 'eternal objects,' 'propositions,' 'objectified' actual entities and nexus. These 'eternal
( 59 ) Page 52: 'objectified actual entities' and 'nexus.' He calls them 'ideas of particular things'; and he explains why, in
( 60 ) Page 52: many actual entities. He writes :
( 61 ) Page 55: either one actual entity, or (more frequently) is a nexus of actual entities with immediacies mutually
( 62 ) Page 56: mind. Mental activity is one of the modes of feeling belonging to all actual entities in some degree, but
( 63 ) Page 56: The perceptive constitution of the actual entity presents the problem, How can the other actual
( 64 ) Page 58: forms of the objectifications of actual entities for each other; the composite character of an actual
( 65 ) Page 58: at least so far as perception is reduced to mere prehension of actual entities. Perception, in the sense of
( 66 ) Page 59: relations to other actual entities. 'change' is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the
( 67 ) Page 59: objects function by introducing the multiplicity of actual entities as constitutive of the actual entity in
( 68 ) Page 60: actual entities which are formative of the actual entity in question, and an 'abstract essence' in which the
( 69 ) Page 60: specified actual entities; the abstract essence is a complex eternal object. There is nothing self-
( 70 ) Page 60: contradictory in the thought of many actual entities with the same abstract essence; but there can only be
( 71 ) Page 60: actual entities, each with its own absolute self-attainment. This concrete finality of the individual is
( 72 ) Page 60: that the process of generation is to be described in terms of actual entities.
( 73 ) Page 61: the world of contemporary actual entities. That contemporary world is objectified [96] for us as
( 74 ) Page 61: contemporary actual entities are elements in our constitution. This is the type of objectification which (in
( 75 ) Page 62: continuum. For a continuum is divisible; so far as the contemporary world is divided by actual entities, it
( 76 ) Page 62: The contemporary world is in fact divided and atomic, being a multiplicity of definite actual entities.
( 77 ) Page 62: other contemporary actual entities. This antithesis will have to be discussed later (cf. Part Iv). But it is
( 78 ) Page 62: necessary to adumbrate it here. -This limitation of the way in which the contemporary actual entities are
( 79 ) Page 62: contemporary actual entities. Thus these sense-data are eternal objects playing a complex relational role;
( 80 ) Page 62: They connect the actual entities of the past with the actual entities of the contemporary world, and
( 81 ) Page 63: The chair. thus objectified, is the objectification of a contemporary nexus of actual entities in its unity as
( 82 ) Page 64: whereby the sense-datum also enters into the objectification of a society of actual entities in the
( 83 ) Page 64: actual entities. In this account of the ingression of sense-data, the animal body is nothing more than the
( 84 ) Page 65: the human body with which we perceive the 'chair.' The direct recognition of such antecedent actual
( 85 ) Page 65: the actual entities composing it, is discussed in terms of the theory of prehensions, and in relation to the
( 86 ) Page 65: actual entities can provide. This is a limitation laid upon the general potentiality provided by eternal
( 87 ) Page 65: entity, there is a 'given' world of settled actual entities and a 'real' potentiality, which is the datum for
( 88 ) Page 65: always mean the community of all actual entities, including the primordial actual entity called 'God' and
( 89 ) Page 65: serial' view of time, two contemporary actual entities define the same actual world. According to the
( 90 ) Page 66: actual entities are called 'contemporary' when neither belongs to the 'given' actual world defined by the
( 91 ) Page 66: All actual entities are related according to the determinations of this continuum; and all possible actual
( 92 ) Page 67: actual entities atomize the extensive continuum. This continuum is in itself merely the potentiality for
( 93 ) Page 67: any actual entity; for they express how all actual entities are in the solidarity of one world. With the
( 94 ) Page 67: actual entity in its relationship to other actual entities is in this sense somewhere in the continuum, and
( 95 ) Page 67: and that the other actual entities are objectified with the retention of their extensive relationships. These
( 96 ) Page 67: relations. The potential scheme does not determine its own atomization by actual entities. It is divisible;
( 97 ) Page 67: but its real division by actual entities depends upon more particular characteristics of the actual entities
( 98 ) Page 72: that the common sense of mankind conceives that all its notions ultimately refer to actual entities, or as
( 99 ) Page 72: relational element in experience whereby the actual entities experienced, and that unit experience itself,
( 100 ) Page 75: existence is not generically different from that of other actual entities, except that he is 'primordial' in a
( 101 ) Page 75: body "these hands and body are mine." He then finally appeals for some final notion of actual entities in
( 102 ) Page 76: exhibited in all the mutual objectifications by which actual entities prehend each other. Thus in itself, the
( 103 ) Page 76: prehension of all actual entities. It also finds exemplification in each actual entity considered
( 104 ) Page 77: 'formally.' In this sense, actual entities are extensive, [ll9] since they arise out of a potentiality for
( 105 ) Page 77: as exhibiting an extensive plenum of actual entities is practically the same as the 'organic' doctrine. But
( 106 ) Page 77: actual entities, transforming the potentiality of the extensive scheme into a plenum of actual occasions;
( 107 ) Page 77: In our perception of the contemporary world via presentational immediacy, nexus of actual entities
( 108 ) Page 79: the actual entities which belong to some one society of a definite type.
( 109 ) Page 81: notion of actual entities which move and change. From the point of view of the philosophy of organism,
( 110 ) Page 82: and is immortal. The actual entities beyond it can say, 'It is mine.' But the possession imposes
( 111 ) Page 83: (ii) That this end is concerned with the gradations of intensity in the satisfactions of actual entities
( 112 ) Page 84: There is not just one ideal 'order' which all actual entities should attain and fail to attain In each case
( 113 ) Page 85: primary phase for the concrescence of other actual entities. This transcendence is thereby established
( 114 ) Page 87: which suggests this term is the objective lure for feeling. In the comparison of two actual entities, the
( 115 ) Page 87: The 'objectifications' of the actual entities in the actual world, relative to a definite actual entity,
( 116 ) Page 87: actual entities in the fact that Hume's principle, of the derivate character of conceptual feelings, does not
( 117 ) Page 89: the objectified data for individual actual entities. It has been necessary to give a sketch of some
( 118 ) Page 89: themselves enjoyed by many actual entities which thereby form a society. The term 'society' will always
( 119 ) Page 90: wider environment of actual entities, which also contribute their objectifications to which the members
( 120 ) Page 90: itself a part. In reference to any given society the world of actual entities is to be conceived as forming a
( 121 ) Page 90: 'metaphysics'--should be those which apply to all actual entities. It may be doubted whether such
( 122 ) Page 90: sufficiently wide, and yet such that their defining characteristics cannot safely be ascribed to all actual
( 123 ) Page 91: cosmic epoch. Here the phrase 'cosmic epoch' is used to mean that widest society of actual entities
( 124 ) Page 91: protonic actual entities, and by yet more ultimate actual entities which can be dimly discerned in the
( 125 ) Page 92: that they lapse into unimportance for the actual entities in question. The term 'disorder' refers to a society
( 126 ) Page 94: actual entities. Plato conceives the notion of definite societies of actual molecular entities, each society
( 127 ) Page 110: The presumption that there is only one genus of actual entities constitutes an ideal of cosmological
( 128 ) Page 110: characters of the various societies of actual entities which jointly constitute that environment;
( 129 ) Page 110: entities. The societies in an environment will constitute its orderly element, and the nonsocial actual
( 130 ) Page 111: of various actual entities are replicas with faint coordinations of perspective contrast. Under these
( 131 ) Page 111: vagueness, which is the irrelevance of the differences between the definite actual entities of the nexus.
( 132 ) Page 112: @In this way a group of actual entities contributes to the satisfaction as one extensive whole. It is
( 133 ) Page 112: into such multifold unities. When there is such vague prehension, the differences between the actual
( 134 ) Page 112: the factor producing both the vagueness of discrimination between actual entities and the intensification
( 135 ) Page 116: actual entities agrees absolutely with the general principles according to which the notions of modern
( 136 ) Page 118: is passed on as a datum, from the cells of the retina, through the train of actual entities forming the
( 137 ) Page 119: 'amplifier' to use the language of the technology of electromagnetism. The various actual entities, which
( 138 ) Page 123: presentational immediacy, actual entities in the contemporary universe are causally independent of each
( 139 ) Page 124: grey spatial region. But, to go back to the former fact, the many actual entities of the present stone and
( 140 ) Page 128: actual entities. The question, as to how the extensive continuum is in fact atomized by the atomic
( 141 ) Page 132: possibility of diverse actual entities with diverse grades of imaginative freedom, some more, some less,
( 142 ) Page 141: of our prehension of other actual entities to the mediation of private sensations is pure myth. The
( 143 ) Page 141: generating sensations. Thus the whole notion of prehension should be inverted. We prehend other actual
( 144 ) Page 144: to be an actual entity? He found three kinds of actual entities, namely, cogitating minds, extended bodies,
( 145 ) Page 144: artificial account of what common sense believes to be our direct knowledge of other actual entities. But
( 146 ) Page 144: his assumption of a multiplicity of actual entities.
( 147 ) Page 145: In this assumption of a multiplicity of actual entities the philosophy of organism follows Descartes. It
( 148 ) Page 145: actual entities appear, it can only be because they conform to its standard of actuality. There can only be
( 149 ) Page 145: [220] evidence of a world of actual entities, if the immediate actual entity discloses them as essential to
( 150 ) Page 147: many actual entities. This is only [224]
( 151 ) Page 148: item of the universe, including all the other actual entities, is a constituent in the constitution of any one
( 152 ) Page 148: required to rescue actual entities from being undifferentiated repetitions, each of the other, with mere
( 153 ) Page 148: qualify the 'eternal objects.' These eternal objects determine how the world of actual entities enters into
( 154 ) Page 149: actual unity in the form of individual satisfaction. The actual entities enter into each others' constitutions
( 155 ) Page 149: actual entity is a potentiality for ingression into actual entities. In its ingression into any one actual entity,
( 156 ) Page 149: seems to deny, and in fact it was meant to deny, that the actual entities also fall within the scope of the
( 157 ) Page 149: eternal objects are the pure potentials of the universe; and the actual entities differ from each other in
( 158 ) Page 149: objects into actual entities; and his second use of the same term is covered by the doctrine of the
( 159 ) Page 150: defined. But such 'definition' must be found as an element in the actual entities concerned. The
( 160 ) Page 151: mental operations. He should have conceived it as the analysis of operations constituent of actual entities.
( 161 ) Page 152: definiteness. This is the doctrine of the 'objectification' of actual entities. Thus the primary stage in the
( 162 ) Page 152: looking at this truth is that the relevance to other actual entities of its own status in the actual world is the
( 163 ) Page 152: content' is meant to emphasize the doctrine of 'objectification' of actual entities. If experience be
( 164 ) Page 153: component in the one actual entity. There must therefore be no further reference to other actual entities;
( 165 ) Page 153: the objective content is analysable into actual entities under limited perspectives provided by their own
( 166 ) Page 155: objectification of actual entities by eternal objects lacks 'immediacy.' It is 'repetition'; and this is a
( 167 ) Page 158: consists of 'actual entities ' which in the philosophical tradition are mis-described as 'particulars, and the
( 168 ) Page 158: actual entities are mis-described as 'universals.' These mis-descriptions have already been considered
( 169 ) Page 164: concrescence. Apart from God, there could be no relevant novelty. Whatever arises in actual entities
( 170 ) Page 166: vera is constituted by its 'becoming.' The way in which one actual entity is qualified by other actual
( 171 ) Page 171: objectifications of actual entities from the settled past. We therefore seek for the actual occasions to
( 172 ) Page 177: existence of such actual entities as we can best observe. Also when we observe the causal nexus, devoid
( 173 ) Page 186: A 'singular' proposition is the potentiality of an actual world including a definite set of actual entities
( 174 ) Page 186: [283] actual entities' into 'any set belonging to a certain sort of sets.' If the sort of sets includes all sets
( 175 ) Page 186: The definite set of actual entities involved are called the 'logical subjects of the proposition'; and
( 176 ) Page 188: a manner of germaneness of a certain set of eternal objects to a certain set of actual entities. Every
( 177 ) Page 188: definite actual entities, or a certain type of actual entities, within a wide systematic nexus. In an extreme
( 178 ) Page 188: and two are hybrid types. The primary types are actual entities and pure potentials (eternal objects); the
( 179 ) Page 189: Feelings are the 'real' components of actual entities. Propositions are only realizable as one sort of
( 180 ) Page 191: judgments of actual entities in the future. A judgment concerns the universe in process of prehension by
( 181 ) Page 191: the judging subject. It will primarily concern a definite selection of objectified actual entities, and of
( 182 ) Page 191: by the ingression of those eternal objects; so that there is one objectified nexus of those actual entities,
( 183 ) Page 191: judging subject, and is a feeling in the constitution of the judging subject. The actual entities, with which
( 184 ) Page 193: diverse actual entities, having the same content (of 'proposition' in contrast with 'nexus'), requires that the
( 185 ) Page 193: constituent into the 'real' essences of diverse actual entities. The judgment is a decision of feeling, the
( 186 ) Page 193: But, since each actual world is relative to standpoint, [294] it is only some actual entities which will
( 187 ) Page 193: proposition. Every proposition presupposes some definite settled actual entities in the actual world of its
( 188 ) Page 193: of each of them. All judgment requires knowledge of the presupposed actual entities. Thus in addition to
( 189 ) Page 193: actual entities, whose actual worlds have not the requisite composition, the proposition is non-existent;
( 190 ) Page 193: presupposition of some or all of these settled actual entities which are the logical subjects in the original
( 191 ) Page 195: for a society of settled actual entities in the actual world from the standpoint of the judging subject, with
( 192 ) Page 196: A proposition is the potentiality of the objectification of certain presupposed actual entities via certain
( 193 ) Page 198: are almost always societies, or looser groups of actual entities. Now, for the sake of simplicity, consider
( 194 ) Page 198: of two actual entities, one the cup in one occasion of its existence and the other the saucer in one
( 195 ) Page 204: presupposition of a certain type of actual entities, and that the question then asked is, Under what
( 196 ) Page 204: presupposed type of entities requires a presupposed type of data for the primary phases of these actual
( 197 ) Page 204: the general order of the immediate environment, so far as concerns actual entities within the scope of the
( 198 ) Page 205: concerns societies of actual entities which are important for the stability of the immediate environment.
( 199 ) Page 213: operations' in their capacity of later phases in the constitutions of actual entities. Locke himself flittingly
( 200 ) Page 215: These 'reasons' are the other actual entities objectified for it.
( 201 ) Page 219: constitutedf actual entities, and the eternal objects. All the actual entities are positively prehended, but
( 202 ) Page 220: of other actual entities. This objective intervention of other entities constitutes the creative character
( 203 ) Page 220: abstraction from the objective intervention of actual entities belonging to any definite actual world,
( 204 ) Page 221: objectifications of one actual entity in the constitutions of other actual entities equally depends upon
( 205 ) Page 222: creativity is not an external agency with its own ulterior purposes. All actual entities share with God this
( 206 ) Page 222: of transcending all other actual entities, including God. The [340] universe is thus a creative advance
( 207 ) Page 222: other actual entities, enter into the self-realization of an actuality in the capacity of determinants of the
( 208 ) Page 224: The ground, or origin, of the concrescent process is the multiplicity of data in the universe, actual
( 209 ) Page 226: Any actual entity, which we will name A, feels other actual entities, which we will name B, C, and D.
( 210 ) Page 226: consists of all those actual entities which lie in the actual world of A and not in the actual world of D. For
( 211 ) Page 227: feelings of the objectifications of innumerable actual entities. Some of these physical feelings illustrate
( 212 ) Page 229: One actual entity has a status among other actual entities, not expressible wholly in terms of contrasts
( 213 ) Page 229: particularity of the nexus between particular actual entities. This consciousness takes the form of our
( 214 ) Page 229: This peculiar particularity of the nexus between actual entities can be put in another way. Owing to
( 215 ) Page 230: Also the more complex multiple nexus between many actual entities in the actual world of a
( 216 ) Page 230: percipient. It is the same nexus for all percipients which include those actual entities in their actual
( 217 ) Page 230: located among the actual entities connected in itself. If in a nexus there be a realized contrast of
( 218 ) Page 230: of actual entities. It is a particular complex matter of fact, realized; and, because of its reality, a standing
( 219 ) Page 230: and of objective Diversity. The word 'event' is used sometimes in the sense of a nexus of actual entities,
( 220 ) Page 232: objective datum is a nexus of actual entities. Simple physical feelings and transmuted feelings make up
( 221 ) Page 234: Secondly, there is the complex ordered environment composed of certain other actual entities which,
( 222 ) Page 236: actual entity. Thus in a simple physical feeling there are two actual entities concerned. One of them is the
( 223 ) Page 237: The limitation, whereby the actual entities felt are severally reduced to the perspective of one of their
( 224 ) Page 238: The novel actual entity, which is the effect, is the reproduction of the many actual entities of the
( 225 ) Page 238: 'objectification' is rendered possible by reason of the 'divisible' character of the satisfactions of actual
( 226 ) Page 238: simple physical feelings. The actual entities of the actual world are bound together in a nexus of these
( 227 ) Page 239: actual entity is devoid of either pole; though their relative importance differs in different actual entities.
( 228 ) Page 240: eternal object has ingress into that datum conjointly with the remaining eternal objects and actual entities
( 229 ) Page 245: actual entities. A feeling will be called 'physical' when its datum involves objectifications of other actual
( 230 ) Page 246: feeling, we have in the case of the simpler actual entities an example of the transference of energy in the
( 231 ) Page 246: subjective form of a conceptual feeling, we have in the case of the more complex actual entities an
( 232 ) Page 246: feelings of temporal actual entities, and (ii) those which feel the conceptual feelings of God.
( 233 ) Page 247: physical feelings which lie in the future beyond the actual entities in which such valuations occur.
( 234 ) Page 250: arising from the undiscriminated actual entities which are members of that nexus.
( 235 ) Page 251: subject from its analogous simple physical feelings of various actual entities, then in a subsequent phase
( 236 ) Page 251: those prehended actual entities, or of some part of that nexus; so that the nexus (or its part), thus
( 237 ) Page 251: physical feelings into a complex physical feeling only provides for the various actual entities of the
( 238 ) Page 251: one nexus in place of its component actual entities. This is Leibniz's problem which arises in his
( 239 ) Page 254: order, there must be trivialized actual entities. The right coordination of the negative prehensions is one
( 240 ) Page 256: undetermined actual entities. In itself an eternal object evades any selection among actualities or epochs.
( 241 ) Page 256: bout particular actualities. Such entities are neither actual entities, nor eternal objects, nor feelings. They
( 242 ) Page 256: determinate actual entities. Now an eternal object, in itself, abstracts from all determinate actual entities,
( 243 ) Page 257: abstraction from determinate actual entities. It is a complex entity, with determinate actual
( 244 ) Page 257: actual entity, if the feeling be simple, or is a determinate nexus of actual entities, if the physical feeling
( 245 ) Page 257: possibility)$to any actual entities, where the any is absolutely general and devoid of selection. In the
( 246 ) Page 257: integrated objective datum the physical feeling provides its determinate set of actual entities, indicated
( 247 ) Page 258: elimination. For the peculiar objectification of the actual entities, really effected in the physical feeling,
( 248 ) Page 258: in fact actual entities which are definite in their realized mutual relatedness. Thus the proposition is in
( 249 ) Page 259: subjects are the actual entities which they are. Thus no actual entity can feel a proposition, if its actual
( 250 ) Page 260: The actual entities whose actual worlds include the logical subjects of a proposition will be said to
( 251 ) Page 260: fall within the 'locus' of that proposition. The proposition is prehensible by them. Of those actual entities
( 252 ) Page 261: synthesized by a double elimination involving both data. The actual entities involved in the datum of the
( 253 ) Page 261: realization in respect to absolutely any actual entities; but in [399] the proposition its possibilities are
( 254 ) Page 261: actual entities in the nexus. Consciousness is the way of feeling that particular real nexus, as in contrast
( 255 ) Page 265: nexus of actual entities in this world which is possible for any one of the actual entities. 'Mortal' does
( 256 ) Page 265: Athens.' Thus 'Socratic,' as here used, refers to a society of actual entities realizing certain general
( 257 ) Page 265: (Socrates) and the actual entities of this actual world, forming a society amid which mortality is
( 258 ) Page 265: subjects the actual entities forming the Athenian society. These actual entities are [405] required for the
( 259 ) Page 266: In an intellectual feeling the datum is the generic contrast between a nexus of actual entities and a
( 260 ) Page 266: The common 'subject' entertaining the two feelings effects an integration whereby each of these actual
( 261 ) Page 269: with the actual entities of the nexus as its logical subjects, and with its predicate also derived from the
( 262 ) Page 270: the actual entities on both sides of the contrast. In the 'yes-form' there is the further ground of unity by
( 263 ) Page 271: feeling of a nexus with a propositional feeling whose logical subjects are the actual entities in the nexus.
( 264 ) Page 273: feeling. Only one set of actual entities is involved in the formation of the perceptive feeling. These actual
( 265 ) Page 273: entities are the logical subjects of the proposition which is felt. But two sets of actual entities are
( 266 ) Page 276: purposes, the cosmological scheme which is here being developed requires us to hold that all actual
( 267 ) Page 280: determination of the comparative creative efficacies of the component feelings of actual entities. In a
( 268 ) Page 283: datum is obtained, in the guise of a contrast of actual entities, eternal objects, and propositions, felt with
( 269 ) Page 284: According to this doctrine, if S be the concrescent subject in question, and A and B be two actual entities
( 270 ) Page 285: concerning low-grade actual entities, the coordinate divisions approach the character of being actual
( 271 ) Page 286: The atomic actual entities individually express the genetic unity of the universe. The world expands
( 272 ) Page 286: relationship among diverse actual entities. But this scheme of external extensive relationships links itself
( 273 ) Page 286: with the schemes of internal division which are internal to the several actual entities. There is, in this way,
( 274 ) Page 286: there is the merely potential aggregation of actual entities into a super-actuality in respect to which the
( 275 ) Page 287: actual entities; the other type consists of nexus of actual entities. Both types are correlated by their
( 276 ) Page 287: definition of a point. by this mode of approach the extensive relations of actual entities mutually external
( 277 ) Page 290: according to their primary modes of ingression into actual entities. An eternal object can only function in
( 278 ) Page 292: actual entities eliminate the proper status of the subjects entertaining the feelings. For the subjective
( 279 ) Page 292: the notion of the atomicity of actual entities, each with its concrescent privacy, has been entirely
( 280 ) Page 302: actual entities with a certain 'form'; and so is a 'segment.' Thus geometry is the investigation of the
( 281 ) Page 307: as the atomic character of actual entities is unrecognized, the application of Zeno's method of argument
( 282 ) Page 309: prehensions, and of the individual actual entities to which these prehensions belong. Mathematical
( 283 ) Page 310: characterizing the feelings of actual entities. It so happens that in this epoch of the universe the feelings
( 284 ) Page 311: accordingly only to be found in comparatively high-grade actual entities. They do not in any respect
( 285 ) Page 313: successive feelings transmitted along the successive actual entities of a bodily nervous strand there are
( 286 ) Page 314: objective datum is a nexus with undiscriminated actual entities. The feelings of the first type are feelings
( 287 ) Page 314: characteristic of higher grades of actual entities. They apparently have but slight importance in the
( 288 ) Page 317: actual entities occur in relative independence, the nexus of contemporary actual entities are peculiarly
( 289 ) Page 318: subject is their implication in the same extensive scheme. Thus a nexus of actual entities, contemporary
( 290 ) Page 332: no systematic [507] theory possible, since the so-called 'infinitesimal' distance depends on the actual
( 291 ) Page 345: Thus, analogously to all actual entities, the nature of God is dipolar. He has a primordial nature and a