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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER I
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The sense-perception of some lower forms of life may be conjectured to approximate to this character habitually.

Also occasionally our own sense-perception in moments when thought-activity has been lulled to quiescence is not far off the attainment of this ideal limit.
The process of discrimination in sense-awareness has two distinct sides.
There is the discrimination of fact into parts, and the discrimination of any part of fact as exhibiting relations to entities which are not parts of fact though they are ingredients in it.

Namely the immediate fact for awareness is the whole occurrence of nature.

It is nature as an event present for sense-awareness, and essentially passing.

There is no holding nature still and looking at it.


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