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I find it interesting that, again and again, Whitehead speaks of such things as "beliefs," "faith," or "presuppositions" as all resting on, or arising from, "insight," "direct inspection," perception," and the like.

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Yet another example is provided by his comment on the "dim presuppositions" with which experience awakes "to guide its rising clarity of detached analysis" – namely—namely, that "[t]hey are presuppositions in the sense of expressing the sort of obviousness which experience exhibits" (MT: 159).

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