By Alfred North Whitehead
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For this reason i'll expand the that means of the phrases ‘homogeneous concepts’ and ‘heterogeneous strategies’ that have already been brought. we're pondering ‘homogeneously’ approximately nature after we are wondering it with no pondering idea or approximately sense-awareness, and we're pondering ‘heterogeneously’ approximately nature after we are puzzling over it along side pondering both approximately suggestion or approximately sense-awareness or approximately either. I additionally take the homogeneity of considered nature as aside from any connection with ethical or aesthetic values whose apprehension is shiny in percentage to self-conscious job. The values of nature are might be the major to the metaphysical synthesis of lifestyles. yet any such synthesis is precisely what it's not that i am trying. i'm involved completely with the generalisations of widest scope that are effected respecting that that is recognized to us because the direct deliverance of sense-awareness. i've got stated that nature is disclosed in sense-perception as a posh of entities. it truly is worthy contemplating what we suggest by way of an entity during this connexion. ‘Entity’ is just the Latin similar for ‘thing’ except a few arbitrary contrast is drawn among the phrases for technical reasons. All suggestion should be approximately issues. we will achieve a few notion of this necessity of items for proposal by means of exam of the constitution of a proposition. allow us to think proposition is being communicated through an expositor to a recipient. this kind of proposition consists of words; a few of these words can be demonstrative and others might be descriptive. through a demonstrative word I suggest a word which makes the recipient conscious of an entity in a manner that is autonomous of the actual demonstrative word. you'll remember the fact that i'm right here utilizing ‘demonstration’ within the non-logical experience, specifically within the feel during which a lecturer demonstrates by way of the help of a frog and a microscope the movement of the blood for an uncomplicated type of scientific scholars. i'll name such demonstration ‘speculative’ demonstration, remembering Hamlet’s use of the notice ‘speculation’ while he says, there isn't any hypothesis in these eyes. therefore a demonstrative word demonstrates an entity speculatively. it may well ensue that the expositor has intended another entity—namely, the word demonstrates to him an entity that's various from the entity which it demonstrates to the recipient. if that's the case there's confusion; for there are diversified propositions, particularly the proposition for the expositor and the proposition for the recipient. I positioned this threat apart as beside the point for our dialogue, although in perform it can be tough for 2 folks to concur within the attention of the exact same proposition, or maybe for one individual to have made up our minds precisely the proposition which he's contemplating. back the demonstrative word might fail to illustrate any entity. if that's the case there is not any proposition for the recipient. i believe that we may well think (perhaps rashly) that the expositor is aware what he potential.