Chapter 24

272Triton, Regeneration in,75Tropism and psychical activity,35noteTruth seized in intuition,318-20Unconscious effort,170instinct,142-3,144,145-6,147,166knowledge,145-8,150-1Unconsciousness, two kinds of,144Undefinable, reality,13,48Understanding, absoluteness of,153-4,190-1,197-8,199,200and action,ix,xi,179genesis of the,ix-xv,49,189,207-8,257-9,359,361-2and geometry,ix,xiiand innateness of categories,147,148-9and intuition,46-7and life,ix-xv,13,32-3,46-50,88-9,101,147-8,149,152,162-5,173-4,176-7,178,195-201,213,220,222-3,224,226,257-9,261,266,270,271,313,361-2,365and inert matter,166,168,179,194-5,198,205-6,207,219,355and the ready-made,xiii,48,237,250,251,273,311,321,328-9,354,358and the solid,ixunlimited scope of the,149,150,152SeeIntellect, Intelligence, Concept, Categories, Frames of the understanding, LogicUndone, automatic and determinate evolution is action being,249Unfolding cause,73,74Unforeseeableness of action,47of duration,6,164,340-2of evolution,47,48,52,86,224of invention,164of life,164,184and the willed order,224,342-3SeeForeseeingUnification as the function of the intellect,152,154,357-8Uniqueness of phases of duration,164Unity of extension,154of knowledge,195-6of life,106-7,250,268,271of mental life,268and multiplicity as determinations of space,351-3of nature,104-5,189-90,191,195-6,197,199,322,352,356-8of the organism,176-7of science,195-6,197,228-9,230,321,322,344-5,347,359-60,362-3Universal interaction,188,189life, consciousness coextensive with,186,257,270Universe, continuity of,346Descartes's,346physical, and the idea of disorder,233,275duration of,10,11,241evolution of,241,246notegrowth of,342-3,344movement of, in Aristotle,323mutability of,244,245as organism,31,241as realization of plan,40rhythm of,337,339,346-7states of, considered by science,336,337as unification of physics,348-9,357Unknowable, the, of evolutionism,xithe, in Kant,204,205,206Unmaking, the nature of the process of materiality,245,248,249,251,272,342-3Unorganized bodies,7-8,14,20,21,186.Seeinert matterinstruments,137-9,140-1,150-1matter, cleft between, and the organized,190,191,196,197-9matter, imitation of the organized by,33-4,35,36matter and science,194-6matter.Seeinert matterUnwinding cause,73of immutability in Greek philosophy,325,352Upspringing of invention,164Utility,4-5,150,152,154-5,158-9,160,168,187,195-6,247-8,297-8,328-9,330Vanessa levanaandVanessa prorsa, transformation of,72Variable, time as an independent,20,336Variation, accidental,55,63-4,68,85,168-9of color, in lizards,72,74by deviation,82-3,84of evolutionary type,23-4,72note,131-2,137-8,167,169,171-2,264insensible,63,68interest as cause of,131-2in plants,85-86Vegetable kingdom.SeePlantsVerb, relation expressed by,148Verbs, substantives and adjectives,303Verse and prose, in illustration of the two kinds of order,221,232Vertebrate,ix,126,130,131-4,141Vibrations, matter analyzed into elementary,201Vicious circle, apparent, of intuitionism,192-4,196-7of intellectualism,194,197,318-9,320View, intellectual, of becoming,4,90-1,273,298-9,304,305,310,326-7intellectual, of matter,203,240,250,254,255of reality,206Vignon, P.,35noteVirtual actions,12.SeePossible actiongeometry,212Vise, consciousness compressed in a,179Vision of God, in Alexandrian philosophy,322in molluscs.SeeEye of molluscs, etc.inSalamandra maculata,75Vital activity,134-6,139,140,166-9,246,247-8current,26,27,53-5,80,85,87,88,96-105,118-9,120,230-1,232,239,257,266,270impetus,50-1,53-5,85,87,88,98-105,118-9,126-7,128,131-2,141-2,148-9,150,218,230-1,232,247-8,250,252,254-5,261order, cause in,34,35,94-5,164order, finality and,223-5,226order, generalization in the, and in the mathematical order contrasted,225,226,230-1order, and the geometrical order,222-3,225,226,230,231,235,236,330-1order, imitation of physical order by vital,230principle,42,43,225,226order, repetition in the vital and the mathematical orders contrasted,225,226,230,231process,166-7Vitalism,42,43Void, representation of,273,274,275,277-8,281,283-4,289-90,291,292,294,296,298Voisin,80Volition and cerebral mechanism,253-4Voluntary activity,110,252Vries (de),24,63note,85Wasps, instinct in,140,172Weapons and intellect,137Weismann,26,78,80-1Will and caprice,47and cerebral mechanism,252current of, penetrating matter,237insertion of, into reality,305-6,307and relaxation,201,207-8and mechanism in disorder,233tension of,199,201,207-8Willed order, mutual contingency of willed order and mathematical order,231-3unforeseeability in the,224,342-3Willing, coincidence of seeing and, in intuition,237Wilson, E.B.,36Wolff,75noteWords and states,4,302-3three classes of, corresponding to three classes of representation,302-3,313-4World, intelligible,162-3principle: conciousness,237,261Worms, in illustration of ambiguity of primitive organisms,130Yellow-winged sphex, paralyzing instinct in,172Zeno on motion,308-13Zone of potentialities surrounding acts,179-80,181,264Zoology,128-9Zoospores of algae, in illustration of mobility in plants,112


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