Whitehead's conceptual vocabulary for process philosophy
references
http://www.philosopher.eu/a-n-whitehead-summary/
https://philosophynow.org/issues/114/The%5FPhilosophy%5Fof%5FOrganism
Concepts
panpsychism
panentheism
actual occasions
actual entities
- perspectives on the world analogous to Leibnizian monads
nexus
- aggregates of actual entities
societies
- a nexus whose actual entities share a common characteristic
organisms
- complex societies that transmute a plurality of incoming prehensions into an abstract unity for the purpose of minimizing description length and thereby easing comprehension
concrescence
prehension
- positive or negative
- physical or conceptual
- pure and impure
vectoring
dual-aspect theory
- external appearance correlates to internal experience
perceptual mode
-
causal efficacy
- internal experience of the actions and experiences of the past and concurrent surroundings flowing into the present
-
presentational immediacy
- sensory impressions
The nature of God
-
primordial
- eternal objects
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consequent
- pantheistic unity of all experience drawn into a higher consciousness
- God conditions creativity but it is beyond his control