Symbolism, its meaning and effect [electronic resource] : Barbour-Page lectures, University of Virginia, 1927 / Alfred North Whitehead.

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Main Author: Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 1985.
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Table of Contents:
  • Kinds of symbolism
  • Symbolism and perception
  • On methodology
  • Fallibility of symbolism
  • Definition of symbolism
  • Experience as activity
  • Language
  • Presentational immediacy
  • Perceptive experience
  • Symbolic reference in perceptive experience
  • Mental and physical
  • RĂ´les of sense-data and space in presentational immediacy
  • Objectification
  • Hume on causal efficacy
  • Kant and causal efficacy
  • Direct perception of causal efficacy
  • Primitiveness of causal efficacy
  • The intersection of the modes of perception
  • Localization
  • The contrast between accurate definition and importance
  • Conclusion
  • Uses of symbolism.