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Whitehead says that philosophy, although "mystical," is concerned "to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated" (Modes of Thought: 237). In other words, philosophy's mysticism, in the sense of its "direct insight into depths unspoken," is guided by a concern for the "right" conceptuality/terminology in which to think/speak about them.

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