Wait…what?

[crawdaddio]

From Alfred North Whitehead’s Adventures of Ideas:

§9. Objects.-The process of experiencing is constituted by the reception of entities, whose being is antecedent to that process, into the complex fact which is that process itself. These antecedent entities, thus received as factors into the process of experiencing, are termed ‘objects’ for that

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[turtblu]

You shouldn't feel dull....

The person who wrote this writes like someone who just likes to see themselves use big words. It reads like the BS stuff I used to create for IB.

....I think this is why I like science, you use as few words as possible and all the big words mean something.

[crawdaddio]

Well, in his defense, the book was written in the early 30s, and it’s generally been my experience that in those days, you were required to write like that. But it reminds me of my own TOK essays, too, which does is pretty funny. Incidentally, I managed to keep a copy of one of them (I remember thinking then, “the hell I’ll let them have the only evidence of the work I did for this”). It’s pretty amusing