By Schubert Ogden
What reasons do we have for taking our own minds or experiences as "primary samples \ [= basic samples = privileged samples\] of reality"? Wiki Markup
Although Hartshorne has given different reasons in different places, the relevance of some of them (e.g., that it is only mind that either asks scientific and metaphysical questions or is able to critically validate answers to them) is not entirely obvious. The reason, in any event, seems to be this:
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