THE CONCEPT OF NATURE

 INDEX

In the case of terms of frequent occurrence, only those occurrences are indexed which are of peculiar importance for the elucidation of meaning.

• A [or an], 11
• Abraham, 105
• Absolute position, 105, 106, 114, 188
• Abstraction, 33, 37, 168, 171, 173;
  • extensive, 65, 79, 85
• Abstractive element, 84;
  • set, 61, 79
• Action at a distance, 159, 190
• Action by transmission, 159, 190
• Active conditions, 158
• Activity, field of, 170, 181
• Adjunction, 101
• Aggregate, 23
• Alexander, Prof., viii
• Alexandria, 71
• Alfred the Great, 137
• Anticipation, 69
• Anti-prime, 88
• Apparent nature, 31, 39
• Area, 99;
  • momental, 103;
  • vagrant, 103
• Aristotelian logic, 150
• Aristotle, 16, 17, 18, 24, 197
• Associate-potential, 183
• Atom, 17
• Attribute, 21, 26, 150
• Awareness, 3
• Axiom, 36, 121
• Axioms of congruence, 128 et seqq.

• Bacon, Francis, 78
• Behaviouristic, 185
• Bergson, 54
• Berkeley, 28
• Between, 64
• Beyond, 186, 198
• Bifurcation, vi, 30, 185, 187
• Boundary, 100;
  • moment, 63;
  • particle, 100
• Broad, C. D., viii

• Calculation, formula of, 45, 158
• Cambridge, 97
• Causal nature, 31, 39
• Causation, 31, 146
• Centrifugal force, 138
• Change, uniformity of, 140
• Character, extrinsic, 82, 89, 90, 113, 191;
  • intrinsic, 80, 82, 90, 113, 191
• Charge, 160
• Closure of nature, 4
• Coefficient of drag, 133
• Coefficients of impetus, 183
• Cogredience, 110, 188
• Coherence, 29
• Comparison, 124, 125, 143, 189
• Complex, 13
• Conceptual nature, 45;
  • space, 96
• Concrete facts, 167, 171, 189
• Conditioning events, 152
• Conditions, active, 158
• Congruence, 65, 96, 118, 120, 127, 196
• Continuity, 157;
  • Dedekindian, 102;
  • of events, 76;
  • of nature, 59, 76
• Convention, 121
• Convergence, 62, 79;
  • law of, 82
• Conveyance, 154, 155
• Co-present, 177
• Covering, 83
• Creative advance, 178
• Critical velocity, 193, 195
• Curvature of space-time, 182
• Cyclone, 194

• Dedekindian continuity, 102
• Definite, 53, 194, 198
• Delusions, 31, 38
• Delusive perceptual object, 153
• Demarcation of events, 144
• Demonstrative phrase, 6
• Descriptive phrase, 6, 10
• Differential equations, 196
• Discrimination, 14, 50, 144
• Diversification of nature, 15
• Duddington, Mrs, 47
• Duration, 37, 53, 55, 186
• Durations, families of, 59, 73, 190
• Dynamical axes, 138

• Einstein, vii, 102, 131, 164, 165, 181, 182, 183, 184, 191
• Electromagnetic field, 179
• Electron, 30, 146, 158, 171
• Element, 17;
  • abstractive, 84
• Elliptical phraseology, 7
•  Empty space, 145
• Entity, 5, 13
• Equal in abstractive force, 83
• Error, 68
• Ether, 18, 78, 160;
  • material, 78;
  • of events, 78
• Euclid, 85, 94, 197
• Euler, 140
• Event, 15, 52, 75, 165;
  • percipient, 107, 152, 186
• Event-particle, 86, 93, 94, 172, 191
• Events, conditioning, 152;
  • continuity of, 76;
  • demarcation of, 144;
  • ether of, 78;
  • infinite, 197, 198;
  • limited, 74;
  • passage of, 34;
  • signified, 52;
  • stationary, 198;
  • stream of, 167;
  • structure of, 52, 166
• Exclusion, 186
• Explanation, 97, 141
• Extended nature, 196
• Extension, 22, 58, 75, 185
• Extensive abstraction, 65, 79, 85
• Extrinsic character, 82, 89, 90, 113, 191;
  • properties, 62

• Fact, 12, 13
• Factors, 12, 13, 15
• Facts, concrete, 167, 171
• Family of durations, 59, 63, 73;
  • of moments, 63
• Faraday, 146
• Field, gravitational, 197;
  • of activity, 170, 181;
  • physical, 190
• Finite truths, 12
• Fitzgerald, 133
• Formula of calculation, 45, 158
• Foucault, 138, 194
• Four-dimensional manifold, 86
• Fresnel, 133
• Future, the, 72, 177

• Galileo, 139
• Geometrical order, 194
• Geometry, 36;
  • metrical, 129
• Gravitation, 179 et seqq.
• Gravitational field, 197
• Greek philosophy, 16;
  • thought, 197
• Gyro-compass, 194

• Heath, Sir T. L., 197
• Here, 107

• Idealists, 70
• Immediacy, 52;
  • of perception, 72
• Impetus, 181, 182;
  • coefficients of, 183;
  • integral, 183
• Inclusion, 186
• Individuality, 13
• Infinite events, 197, 198
• Inge, Dr, 48
• Ingredient, 14
• Ingression, 144, 145, 148, 152
• Inherence, 83
• Inside, 106
• Instant, 33, 35, 57
• Instantaneous plane, 91;
  • present, 72;
  • spaces, 86, 90, 177
• Instantaneousness, 56, 57
• Intersection, locus of, 90
• Intrinsic character, 80, 82, 90, 113, 191;
  • properties, 62
• Ionian thinkers, 19
• Irrelevance, infinitude of, 12
• Irrevocableness, 35, 37
• It, 8

• Julius Caesar, 36
• Junction, 76, 101

• Kinetic energy, 105;
  • symmetry, 129
• Knowledge, 28, 32

• Lagrange, 140
• Larmor, 131
• Law of convergence, 82
• Laws of motion, 137, 139;
  • of nature, 196
• Leibnizian monadology, 150
• Level, 91, 92
• Light, 195;
  • ray of, 188;
  • velocity of, 131
• Limit, 57
• Limited events, 74
• Location, 160, 161
• Locke, 27
• Locus, 102;
  • of intersection, 90
• London, 97
• Lorentz, H. A., 131, 133
• Lossky, 47

• Manifold, four-dimensional, 86;
  • space-time, 173
• Material ether, 78;
  • object, 169
• Materialism, 43, 70
• Matrix, 116
• Matter, 16, 17, 19, 20, 26
• Maxwell, 131, 133
• Measurableness, 196;
  • of nature, 193
• Measurement, 96, 120, 174, 196;
  • of time, 65, 140
• Measure-system, 196
• Memory, 68
• Metaphysics, 28, 32
• Metrical geometry, 129
• Michelson-Morley, 195
• Milton, 35
• Mind, 27, 28
•  Minkowski, viii, 131
• Molecule, 32, 171
• Moment, 57, 60, 88
• Momental area, 103;
  • route, 103
• Momentum, 105
• Motion, 105, 114, 117, 127, 188, 192
• Multiplicity, 22

• Natural philosophy, 29, 30
• Natural science, philosophy of, 46
• Nature, 3;
  • apparent, 31, 39;
  • causal, 31, 39;
  • conceptual, 45;
  • continuity of, 59, 76;
  • discrimination of, 144;
  • extended, 196;
  • laws of, 196;
  • passage of, 54;
  • stratification of, 194, 196;
  • system of, 146
• Newton, 27, 136, 139, 140

• Object, 77, 125, 143, 169, 189;
  • delusive perceptual, 155;
  • material, 169;
  • perceptual, 153;
  • physical, 155, 157;
  • scientific, 158, 169;
  • uniform, 162
• Occupation, 22, 34, 36, 100, 101
• Order, source of, 192;
  • spatial, 95, 194;
  • temporal, 64, 95, 194
• Organisation of thought, 79
• Outside, 63, 100

• Paradox, 192
• Parallel, 63, 127;
  • durations, 190
• Parallelism, 95, 191
• Parallelogram, 127
• Paris, 87, 138
• Parliament, 120
• Part, 14, 15, 58
• Passage of events, 34;
  • of nature, 54
• Past, the, 72, 177
• Perception, 3
• Perceptual objects, 149, 153
• Percipience, 28
• Percipient event, 107, 152, 186, 187
• Period of time, 51
• Permanence, 144
• Perpendicularity, 117, 127, 193
• Philosophy, 1;
  • natural, 29, 30;
  • of natural science, 46;
  • of the sciences, 2
• Physical field, 190;
  • object, 155, 156, 157
• Physics, speculative, 30
• Place, 51
• Plane, 191;
  • instantaneous, 91
• Plato, 16, 17, 18, 24, 197
• Poincaré, 121, 122, 123
• Point, 35, 89, 91, 114, 173, 176
• Point-flash, 172, 173
• Point of space, 85
• Point, timeless, 192
• Point-track, 113, 198
• Pompey, 36
• Position, 89, 90, 92, 93, 99, 113, 191;
  • absolute, 105, 106, 114, 188
• Potential, 183;
  • associate-, 183
• Predicate, 18
• Predication, 18
• Present, the, 69, 72, 177;
  • instantaneous, 72;
  • observational, 186
• Primary qualities, 27
• Prime, 88
• Process, 53, 54;
  • of nature, 54
• Psychic additions, 29, 187
• Punct, 92, 93, 94
• Pythagoreans, 197

• Quality, 27
• Quantum of time, 162
• Quantum theory, 162

• Ray of light, 188
• Reality, 30;
  • of durations, 55, 187
• Recognition, 124, 143, 189
• Rect, 91, 92
• Recurrence, 35
• Relative motion, 117;
  • velocity, 130
• Relativity, 169;
  • restricted theory of, 193
• Rest, 105, 114, 188, 192
• Rotation, 138, 194
• Route, 99;
  • momental, 103;
  • straight, 103
• Russell, Bertrand, 11, 122, 123

• Schelling, 47
• Science, 2;
  • metaphysical, 32
• Scientific objects, 149, 158, 169
• Secondary qualities, 27
• Self-congruence, 196
• Self-containedness of nature, 4
• Sense-awareness, 3, 67
• Sense-object, 149, 170
• Sense-perception, 3, 14
• Sense-recognition, 143, 189
• Series, temporal, 66, 70, 85, 178
• Set, abstractive, 61, 79
• Significance, 51, 186, 187, 188, 194, 197, 198
• Signified events, 52
• Simplicity, 163, 173
• Simultaneity, 53, 56, 196
• Situation, 15, 78, 147, 148, 152, 160, 189
• Solid, 99, 101, 102;
  • vagrant, 101
• Sound, 195
• Space, 16, 17, 31, 33, 79;
  • empty, 145;
  • timeless, 86, 106, 114;
  • uniformity of, 194
• Spaces, instantaneous, 86, 90
•  Space-system, 179
• Space-time manifold, 173
• Spatial-order, 95
• Spatio-temporal structure, 173
• Speculative demonstration, 6
• Speculative physics, 30
• Standpoint for perception, 107, 188
• Station, 103, 104, 113
• Stationary events, 198
• Straight line, 91, 114, 191;
  • route, 103
• Stratification of nature, 187, 194, 196
• Stream of events, 167
• Structure of events, 52, 166
• Structure, spatio-temporal, 173
• Subject, 18
• Substance, 16, 18, 19, 150
• Substratum, 16, 18, 21
• Symmetry, 118, 126;
  • kinetic, 129
• System of nature, 146
• System, time-, 192

• Tarner, Edward, v, 1
• Temporal order, 64, 95, 194
• Temporal series, 66, 70, 85
• Tensor, 182
• Terminus, 4
• The, 11
• Theory, quantum, 162
• There, 110, 189
• This, 11
• Thought, 3, 14
• Timaeus, the, 17, 20, 24
• Time, 16, 17, 31, 33, 49, 79;
  • measurement of, 140;
  • quantum of, 162;
  • transcendence of, 39
• Time-series, 178, also cf. Temporal series
• Time-system, see Time-series, also 91, 97, 104, 179, 192
• Timeless point, 192;
  • space, 86, 106, 114, 177
• Totality, 89
• Transcendence of time, 39
• Transmission, 26, 28;
  • action by, 159, 190
• Tubes of force, 146

• Unexhaustiveness, 50
• Uniform object, 162
• Uniformity of change, 140;
  • of space, 194

• Vagrant area, 103;
  • solid, 101
• Veblen and Young, 36
• Velocity, critical, 193, 195;
  • of light, 131, 195;
  • relative, 130
• Volume, 92, 101

• When, 107
• Where, 107
• Whole, 58
• Within, 63

• Young, Veblen and, 36