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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER III
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But we are not aware of them except as entities fulfilling the functions of relata in these relations.
Thus the complete general fact, posited as occurring, comprises both sets of entities, namely the entities perceived in their own individuality and other entities merely apprehended as relata without further definition.

This complete general fact is the discernible and it comprises the discerned.

The discernible is all nature as disclosed in that sense-awareness, and extends beyond and comprises all of nature as actually discriminated or discerned in that sense-awareness.

The discerning or discrimination of nature is a peculiar awareness of special factors in nature in respect to their peculiar characters.

But the factors in nature of which we have this peculiar sense-awareness are known as not comprising all the factors which together form the whole complex of related entities within the general fact there for discernment.


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