An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
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' which contemplates change in the ' there ' of an event, definitely refers to events which are parts of a duration but are not cogredient with it. Cogredience is the relation of absolute position within a duration; we must remember that a duration is a slab of nature and not a mere abstract stretch of time. Cogredience is the relation which generates the consentient sets discussed in Chapter III of Part I. The details of the deduction belong to Part III. 16-6 It is not necessary to assume that... there is one event which is the system of all nature throughout all time. For scientific purposes the only unbounded events are durations and these are bounded in their temporal extension. 17. The Constants of Externality, ij-i The 'con- stants of externality' are those characteristics of a perceptual experience which it possesses when we assign to it the property of being an observation of the passage of external nature, namely when we apprehend 7 2 II. THE DATA OF SCIENCE it. A fact which possesses these characteristics, namely these constants of externality, is what we call an ' event.
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