The Concept of Nature

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The Concept of Nature (1920)
by Alfred North Whitehead
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THE CONCEPT
OF NATURE

THE TARNER LECTURES
DELIVERED IN TRINITY COLLEGE
NOVEMBER 1919


CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1920


Contents

Preface

Chapter I: Nature and Thought

Chapter II: Theories of the Bifurcation of Nature

Chapter III: Time

Chapter IV: The Method of Extensive Abstraction

Chapter V: Space and Motion

Chapter VI: Congruence

Chapter VII: Objects

Chapter VIII: Summary

Chapter IX: The Ultimate Physical Concepts