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- that
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- "no
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- two
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- contemporary
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- occasions
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- derived
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- from
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- a
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- past
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- wholly
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- in
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- common"
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- (AI:
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- how
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- also
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- that
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- "human
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- experience
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- is
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- an
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- act
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- of
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- self-origination
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- including
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- [sic
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- of
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- (290)?
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- That occasions performing some common function in some percipient experience may thereby acquire the unity of a group for that percipient seems clear enough. But, surely, whether or not occasions constitute a nexus is independent of their performing some common function in some percipient experience. If any set of occasions in any way exhibits the basic property of "mutual immanence," it is a
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- group—and, in particular, is the kind of group termed "
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- nexus."
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- And so, too, with other kinds of
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- groups—societies, personally ordered
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- societies and so on. So how can Whitehead say what he says in the
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- opening sentence of Ch. XIII: The Grouping of Occasions?
20 October 2000
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