If the matter Be
Bare entity
Abstraction necessary
Method of thought
Spatial and color relationships grace a study of simple complexity.
“Thus space is not a relation between substances, but between attributes.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Knotted Substratum
Ingrained tendency
Insistent postulation
While not at sea
Near a mooring port, replica old-ship tourist ramps are secured with rope.
“Matter represents the refusal to think away spatial and temporal characteristics and to arrive at the bare concept of an individual entity.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Relations Between
Different departments
Of knowledge
Connected by use
Small hue shifts away from neutral gray are aesthetically rewarding.
“Nature can be thought of as a closed system whose mutual relations do not require the expression of the fact that they are thought about.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Admirable Solicitude
Cannot abandon
Working definitions
Inserted in relations
There are occasionally adventurous times when a destination turns-out to be authentic.
“Nature is that which we observe in perception through the senses. In this sense-perception we are aware of something which is not thought and which is self-contained for thought.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Crows
Once upon
Forgotten lore
Unexpected wildness
Some birds seem to like to attract attention.
“When the crows come black against the darkening sky their wings obscure the sun and small sounds drown in their strident caws.” – Lisl auf der Heide
mortarMix
Work alone
Admiration absent
Beyond encouragement
Things cast aside do not disappear.
“I was in such a state of mental agitation, in such great confusion that for a time I feared my weak reason would not survive…. Now it seems I am better that I see more clearly the direction my studies are taking.” – Paul Cézanne
Investigations
Explain space
Complex of relations
Between things
Concentrated energy presents in the swamp.
“The conception of knowledge as passive contemplation is too inadequate to meet the facts.” – Alfred North Whitehead
In this Way
Interconnected
With one another
Empathizing positing
Certain objects offer interesting alternatives for interpretation.
“Each particular experience and similarly each connected, eventually closed sequence of experiences gives the experienced object in an essentially incomplete appearing, which is one-sided, many-sided, yet not all-sided, in accordance with everything that the thing “is.”” – Edmund Husserl
Natural Order
Precisely formed
Relations contained
Superposed intensities
Late in the winter the beach takes on an emotionally wild and natural appearance.
“From the point of view of magnitude, what can there be in common between the extensive and the intensive, the extended and the unextended?” – Henri Bergson
Pipe Dream
Alternate grooves
Optical flare
Desirable artifact
Making best use of all available aesthetic resources, even when things seem unfavorable, can produce satisfaction.
“We can exercise on each perception of a thing a phenomenological reduction in such a manner that we make this perception in itself an object.” – Edmund Husserl