We constantly dwell in possibility, they are propositions or lures for feeling that are attractive. These are **impure potentialities** that are more inclined to the natural world than pure potentialities. **Logical Subject** - The specific entity being referred to. **Predicative Pattern** - The specific eternal object that might characterize a logical subject. **Indicative Feeling** - A physical feeling that has been stripped of its original characteristics, leaving only a pointer to the actual entity. **Propositional Feeling** - The result of integrating indicative feeling with conceptual feeling; the prehension of an *impure potential*. ## Process of Propositional Formation *Allows for precision of statements, not because they are true/false, but because propositions are lures for feeling. They invite us to experience the world as if something was the case. It doesn’t necessarily have to be true, it just has to be relevant and interesting to an actual occasion of experience. * - **Abstraction** - Mind takes a physical feeling of an actual entity and strips away the eternal objects that current characterize it. - **Integration** - This indicative feeling is integrated with a conceptual feeling to form a new predictive pattern. - **Potentiality** - The resulting proposition holds up the possibility that these eternal objects characterize the object, regardless of whether or not they currently do. ### Example: - **The actual occasion:** Someone has just lost a close relationship. Their inherited data — everything they're prehending from their immediate past — is saturated with loss, absence, contracted possibility. The world for them is diminished. - **True Proposition:** The person is gone. - **False Proposition:** I am someone who can carry this and still live. - **Options:** Hold it as genuine possibility, reject it, or collapse it into a false truth. **True / Realized Propositions** - Describe what actually is. Confirming existing patterns, they are good for accuracy, but don’t pull reality in any new direction. There’s no tension or pull towards novelty and change. **False / Unrealized Propositions** - A false proposition introduces **contrast** between what is and what is being entertained. It can pull a system toward novelty and advance, or it can introduce **dissonance that destabilizes** without resolving into anything higher. There is an inherent danger with false propositions when they are mistaken as realized ones. This creates genuine disorder… ## Sources: - [[@Alfred North Whitehead]] - Center for Process Studies -