Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that
structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.
In our
ordinary experience, we take things to be harmonic
structures embodying some appreciable worth, even when this worth is subordinated to a factual function in an instrumental relation.