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The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919

by Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

12 chapters, about 54,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 700 words
2. NATURE AND THOUGHT 5,600 words
3. THEORIES OF THE BIFURCATION OF NATURE 5,900 words
4. TIME 7,100 words
5. THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION 6,300 words
6. SPACE AND MOTION 6,100 words
7. CONGRUENCE 6,600 words
8. OBJECTS 6,200 words
9. SUMMARY 6,100 words
10. THE ULTIMATE PHYSICAL CONCEPTS 3,000 words
11. NOTE: ON THE GREEK CONCEPT OF A POINT 200 words
12. NOTE: ON SIGNIFICANCE AND INFINITE EVENTS 300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Abstraction
• Awareness
• Axiom
• Discrimination
• Electron
• Event (philosophy)
• Fire (classical element)
• Intersection
• Intersection (set theory)
• Lambda
• Motion
• Natural science
• Nature
• Nature (journal)
• Nature (philosophy)
• Object (grammar)
• Parameter
• Thought

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