[The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead]@TWC D-Link book
The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER VI
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For example, a complete event is never disclosed in sense-awareness, and thus the object which is the sum total of objects situated in an event as thus inter-related is a mere abstract concept.

Again a right-angle is a perceived object which can be situated in many events; but, though rectangularity is posited by sense-awareness, the majority of geometrical relations are not so posited.

Also rectangularity is in fact often not perceived when it can be proved to have been there for perception.

Thus an object is often known merely as an abstract relation not directly posited in sense-awareness although it is there in nature.
The identity of quality between congruent segments is generally of this character.

In certain special cases this identity of quality can be directly perceived.


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