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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER IX
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It is roughly speaking that event which is our bodily life within the present duration.

The theory of perception as evolved by medical psychology is based on significance.

The distant situation of a perceived object is merely known to us as signified by our bodily state, _i.e._ by our percipient event.

In fact perception requires sense-awareness of the significations of our percipient event together with sense-awareness of a peculiar relation (situation) between certain objects and the events thus signified.

Our percipient event is saved by being the whole of nature by this fact of its significations.
This is the meaning of calling the percipient event our standpoint for perception.


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