/lit/ - Literature

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now there's also a problem with this maxim when you try to extend it beyond just concepts (since Peirce only intended it to make logical ideas clearer, but Whitehead got it filtered through James, he naturally expanded the spirit of it), which is that, if you say that, for example, a color is merely a collection of effects on our brain, how does it get the feeling of a color, which is irreducible? this is why Whitehead created the category of the ultimate, and creativity, which explain how a plurality of prehensions form a complex in their concrescences which is essentially novel, i.e. different than the sum of its parts.

thus we see that Kant's statement that there is an "ourselves in itself" which is distinct from the inward affectations of that self which we are capable of thinking about is now completely incoherent, because there is no "ourselves" beyond the collection of prehensions (the drops of experience) which are the experiences of those affectations of ourself, when they come together in a concrescence to form a novel entity distinct from merely the sum of the affectations.