Sentences with phrase «fundamental mode of perception»

Because each occasion actively appropriates its past (in a manner determined also by the way in which it receives novel possibilities into its experience) 1 it is, in a sense, self - caused, a causa sui.13 There is no absolute passivity in this fundamental mode of perception and causation.

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Causal efficacy is the more fundamental mode, however, for it is the perception through which the interconnectedness and causal influence of one actuality upon another is experienced.

Here again we come to that fundamental distinction in White - head between the two modes of perception.