Title An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge.djvu
Author Alfred North Whitehead
Year 1919
Publisher Cambridge Uni. Press.
Source djvu
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CONTENTS

PART I
THE TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER I. MEANING
arts pages
1.
Traditional Scientific Concepts
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1-4
2.
Philosophic Relativity
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4-8
3.
Perception
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8-15
CHAPTER II. THE FOUNDATIONS OF DYNAMICAL PHYSICS
4.
Newton's Laws of Motion
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16-19
5.
The Ether
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20-23
6.
Maxwell's Equations
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23-26
Appendix I: Newton's Laws of Motion
..................................................
27-28
Appendix II: Clerk Maxwell's Equations of the Electromagnetic Field
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29-30
CHAPTER III. SCIENTIFIC RELATIVITY
7.
Consentient Sets
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3l-32
8.
Kinematic Relations
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32-37
9.
Motion through the Ether
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37-41
10.
Formulae for Relative Motion
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41-46
Appendix: Mathematical Formulae
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47-50
CHAPTER IV. CONGRUENCE
11.
Simultaneity
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51-54
12.
Congruence and Recognition
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54-57
PART II
THE DATA OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER V. THE NATURAL ELEMENTS
13.
The Diversification of Nature
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59-61
14.
Events
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61-62
15.
Objects
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62-67
CHAPTER VI. EVENTS
16.
Apprehension of Events
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68-71
17.
The Constants of Externality
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71-74
18.
Extensions
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74-77
19.
Absolute Position
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77-78
20.
The Community of Nature
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78-79
21.
Characters of Events
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79-81
CHAPTER VII. OBJECTS
22.
Types of Objects
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82-83
23.
Sense-Objects
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83-88
24.
Perceptual Objects
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88-93
25.
Scientific Objects
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93-98
26.
Duality of Nature
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98-99
PART III
THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION
CHAPTER VIII. PRINCIPLES OF THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION
27.
The Relation of Extension, Fundamental Properties
..................................................
101-102
28.
Intersection, Separation and Dissection
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102
29.
The Junction of Events
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102-103
30.
Abstractive Classes
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104-106
31.
Primes and Antiprimes
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106-108
32.
Abstractive Elements
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108-109
CHAPTER IX. DURATIONS, MOMENTS AND TIME-SYSTEMS
33.
Antiprimes, Durations and Moments
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110-112
34.
Parallelism and Time-Systems
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112-115
35.
Levels, Rects, and Puncts
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115-118
36.
Parallelism and Order
..................................................
118-120
CHAPTER X. FINITE ABSTRACTIVE ELEMENTS
37.
Absolute Primes and Event-Particles
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121-123
38.
Routes
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123-126
39.
Solids
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126
40.
Volumes
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126-127
CHAPTER XI. POINTS AND STRAIGHT LINES
41.
Stations
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128-129
42.
Point-Tracks and Points
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129-131
43.
Parallelism
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131-133
44.
Matrices
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133
45.
Null-Tracks
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133-136
46.
Straight Lines
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136-138
CHAPTER XII. NORMALITY AND CONGRUENCE
47.
Normality
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139-140
48.
Congruence
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141-146
CHAPTER XIII. MOTION
49.
Analytic Geometry
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147-151
50.
The Principle of Kinematic Symmetry
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151-155
51.
Transitivity of Congruence
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155-157
52.
The Three Types of Kinematics
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157-164
PART IV
THE THEORY OF OBJECTS
CHAPTER XIV. THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS
53.
Location
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165-167
54.
Uniform Objects
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167-169
55.
Components of Objects
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169-170
CHAPTER XV. MATERIAL OBJECTS
56.
Material Objects
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171-172
57.
Stationary Events
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172-175
58.
Motion of Objects
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175-177
59.
Extensive Magnitude
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177-181
CHAPTER XVI. CAUSAL COMPONENTS
60.
Apparent and Causal Components
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182-184
61.
Transition from Appearance to Cause
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184-189
CHAPTER XVII. FIGURES
62.
Sense-Figures
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190-192
63.
Geometrical Figures
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193-194
CHAPTER XVIII. RHYTHMS
64.
Rhythms
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195-200
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