Whitehead reinterprets Berkeley's idealist claim 'to be is to be perceived' as 'to be is to be prehended'—reality is constituted by prehensions (acts of apprehension) rather than by perceived objects, with God's thinking making prehensions, not things.
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“to be is to be perceived...we can substitute the concept...to be is to pretend or to be pre handed...Berkeley had a clue but he misread...the reality that comes into being is the prehension not the thing”
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