There is an anticipatory sketch of the category relevant to our
discussion:
"Actual entities"--at other times called 'actual occasions'--are the
final real things of which the world is made up. There is no way to go
behind these entities. There is nothing more real. They however differ
among themselves. God is an actual entity, and so is the most
insignificant puff of cosmic dust off in some far off galaxy. Though
we might be able to argue for a differentiation of function, all
things are actual entities if they are. See Meinong about Golden
Mountains...and if it is the case that the laying places for dinner
since have because of a turning settlement, I would recommend that you
pass on the steak and potatoes. One can, of course, in anticipation of
the recurrence of notions coming from Locke, on the notion of a
plurality of actual entities, the philosophy of organism does not
permit, and this is quite specific to this way of approaching the
issue, and I do not know if this is how another might have had to
consider it especially on warmer days, and to think of a reason is not
for all that such an abstraction. It looks like it.
It looks like what it is. What looks like it is is on what it has been
in order to become. Consider, just for a moment, the ideas of Locke on
simple substance. Remember, in the Essay, he asserts that power is
that which is of a great part of our complex ideas of substance. No
power and then no capacity. Yet it is what it looks like. Therefore, I
draw the conclusion that the each actual entity is itself analysable
in an indefinite number of ways. These ways might lead us to new ways
of knowing. Some modes of analysis can yield the following results: If
a noun can name something, then it can name itself. If no hope is
available, then no pleasure. If there is change, then there are
entities that do change. If there is a metric, then there is no metric
which is not itself part of the hours that will be coming soon, rather
than later. Betty is now leaving her house. Betty might have had a
chance, but it is not clear whether it is true that the dog is in the
basket.
Which is the whole point of a cosmology. Prehensions are not what you
might think of them.
Let me try to emphasize that.
Gil
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