Prologue.

Whitehead (1861-1947) is a philosopher from England. He asserts that reason is an impulse toward empty concreteness. That impulse is not empty. It is a fundamental force that can give birth to something. This impulse of mind is appetition, which is an inherent agent of transcendental goals. Therefore, empty concreteness is embodied as material enjoyment. Whitehead's reason cannot exist without appetition. Jeong Yi-cheon of the Northern Song Dynasty, who developed Neo-Confucianism, also believed that the main body cannot be separated from the phenomenon. Whitehead advocates Plato, stating that all of Western philosophy is just a footnote to Plato's philosophy. However, he overcomes Plato by creating his own organic philosophy. Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud are also critics of the Platonic system. Plato's original sin is his ideology that isolates humans from the world and alienates them for 2000 years. Idea corresponds to all phenomena in a monolithic and organic manner. Whitehead can be seen as a Copernican Ubermensch. ‘The Function of Reason’ is a lecture given at Princeton University in 1929. This book provides an easy and condensed summary of a long and difficult text.

Prologue.
Author 'NomadSirius' Introduction.
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1. The business of philosophers.
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2. The pairs of concepts of the argument of reason.
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3. The fallacy of evolutionists.
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4. The survival of deficient organisms.
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5. How to see different species of living things.
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6. The limitation of evolution.
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7. The upward trend of evolution.
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8. A growth of the converse relation.
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9. The survival of mankind.
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10. The primary function of reason.
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11. To discuss reason.
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12. The reasoning method.
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13. Plato's reason and Ulysses’ reason.
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14. Physiologist's fault.
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15. What the Reason of Plato and Ulysses pursues.
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16. The bones of companions sown by Ulysses.
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17. For these two propositions to be consistent.
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18. A baseless fiction.
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19. What the battleship Utah symbolizes.
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20. Ridiculous idea.
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21. The way life evolves.
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22. The dogma of physiology.
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23. Why did the physiologist himself become an interesting subject for study?
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24. What Physiology and the Clergy Have in Common.
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25. The dogmatic methodology.
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26. The role of methodology.
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27. The last alternatives of methodology.
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28. The last alternatives of appropriate methodology.
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29. The last alternatives of inappropriate methodology.
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30. Three Ways to Get Stability.
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31. The flash.
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32. Transient becoming blind.
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33. Fatigue accumulation and fatigue removal.
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34. The Rhythm of life.
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35. The lower level of primitive reason.
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36. What fatigue means.
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37. The physical cosmic subject.
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38. A general counter-agency in the universe.
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39. Final causation.
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40. The pragmatic doctrine.
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41. Generalization of dogmatic methodologies.
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42. A satisfactory cosmology.
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43. The deepest unsolved mystery.
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44. The fallacy of Bergson and Descartes.
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45. The organic doctrine.
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46. The Platonic forms.
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47. The appetition of appetitions.
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48. Slavish conformity.
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49. The appearance of reason.
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50. The legend of Ulysses.
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51. Abstract theoretical reason.
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52. Solomon’s dream.
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53. The history of the practical Reason.
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54. The history of the speculative Reason.
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55. The modern history of the human race.
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56. The decline of modern music.
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57. Roman Empire Science and Technology.
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58. What a clergyman and a scientist have in common.
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59. Limitations of Scholastic Philosophy.
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60. What Scholastic Philosophy left behind.
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61. The Secret Discovered by the Renaissance.
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62. Renaissance people.
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63. The foundations of the modern sciences.
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64. The interplay between science and technical procedure.
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65. The antagonism between science and metaphysics.
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66. Mathematics and theology.
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67. The fallacy of Newton.
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68. Newton’s boast.
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69. The scope of application of Newtonian mechanics.
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70. Dogmatic science.
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71. The quest of science.
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72. A synchronic description of mere observations.
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73. Diachronic metaphysics.
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74. The design of radio apparatus.
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75. Mathematical formula for radio.
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76. A magical mathematical formula.
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77. Inductive generalizations.
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78. Blind habits of scientific thought.
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79. The Critique of Pure Reason.
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80. The obscurantist attitude of science.
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81. Lights rising from the source of things.
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82. The infinity of things.
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83. The incredible secrets of theoretical reason.
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84. Induction and deduction.
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85. The analysis of the proposition.
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86. A scheme of ideas.
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87. Verification of a scientific scheme.
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88. Combining rational a priori and phenomenal experience.
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89. The dream of Solomon.
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90. The comparative stagnation of Asiatic civilization.
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91. Abstract morphology.
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92. Limitations of Political Economy.
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93. Mathematical physics.
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94. The cosmological scheme.
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95. Some evidence widespread in experience.
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96. The clarity and the vagueness.
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97. The basis of all authority.
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98. The supreme authority.
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99. Stopping the upward impulse.
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100. The object of discipline.
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101. The Greek way of thought.
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102. The characteristics of Plato's and Aristotle's speculation.
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103. How speculative Reason works.
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104. The discordance over moral codes.
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105. The novel speculation.
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106. Ideas of clarity and generality.
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107. The entity of cosmology.
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108. In nature some tendency upwards.
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109. Counter-tendency.
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