Recognition is not primarily an intellectual act of comparison; it is in its essence merely sense-awareness in its capacity of positing before us factors in nature which do not pass.

For example, green is perceived as situated in a certain finite event within the present duration.

This green preserves its self-identity throughout, whereas the event passes and thereby obtains the property of breaking into parts.

The green patch has parts.

But in talking of the green patch we are speaking of the event in its sole capacity of being for us the situation of green.