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North Whitehead, Alfred – 12 A definition of an eternal object
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Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
PART II DISCUSSIONS AND APPLICATIONS
Chapter I - Fact And Form
Section III
Any entity whose conceptual recognition does not involve a necessary reference to any definite actual entities of the temporal world is called an 'eternal object’……
An eternal object is always a potentiality for actual entities; but in itself, as conceptually felt, it is neutral as to the fact of its physical ingression in any particular actual entity of the temporal world…….
There is not, however, one entity which is merely the class of all eternal objects. For if we conceive any class of eternal objects, there are additional eternal objects which presuppose that class but do not belong to it…….
A multiplicity is a type of complex thing which has the unity derivative from some qualification which participates in each of its components severally; but a multiplicity has no unity derivative merely from its various components.