focal region, located within the body, but not necessarily persisting in any fixed coordination with a definite part of the brain'' [Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas].

is the foundation of the connexity of the world, and of the transmission of its types of order.’’ [Whitehead, Modes of Thought].

insignificance, if compared to the entire transformation of human habits and human mentality produced by the long line of men of thought from Thales to the present day, men individually powerless, but ultimately the rulers of the world'' [Whitehead, Science and the Modern World].

and the occasion is included in the world in another sense’’ [Whitehead, Modes of Thought].

Nonetheless, what is manifested within that moment of experience is the entire world and not a finite region of it — at least, it is the world as extending well beyond the here and now of the experience in question'' [Nobo, Whitehead and the Quantum Experience].

How is it possible to bridge the gap, conceptually speaking, between the perceiver and the environment?'' [Harry Heft, Ecological Psychology in Context].

itself unnecessary, it has issued in a second-rate state of mind, producing action devoid of understanding. Self-evidence is the basic fact on which all greatness supports itself. But proof is one of the routes by which self-evidence is often obtained'' [Whitehead, Modes of Thought].

The other side is the permanence of things, the fact that nature can be recognized. Thus nature is always a newness relating objects which are neither old or new'' [Whitehead, Principles of Natural Knowledge].

And apart from action, the contemplation of truth has an interest of its own. But, after all this explanation and qualification, it remains true that the importance of a proposition lies in its interest'' [Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas].