Insistent Particularity
"One Characteristic of the primary mode
of conscious experience is its fusion of a large generality with an insistent particularity.
There are two contrasted ideas which seem inevitably to underlie all width of experience,
One of them is the notion of importance, the sense of importance, the presupposition of
importance.
The other is the notion of matter-of-fact.
There is no escape from sheer matter-of-fact. It is the basis of importance; and importance is important because of the inescapable character of matter-of-fact.
We concentrate by reason of a sense of importance. And when we concentrate, we attend to matter-of-fact.
The two notions are antithetical, and require each other."
- Alfred North Whitehead, 1938
Whitehead was considering that mathematicians had recently established
that in every formal proof, every set of premises must reference something outside the set. -cd.
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