Abstract

"Whitehead's argument for the capacity of language," Franklin assures us, "to give us cognitive contact with the actual or noumenal world would be enormously strengthened by providing a plausible description of how the concrescing actual entity produces ordinary human perception and language out of the noumenal world." Franklin proposes to "describe the details of the emergence of the human world of sense perception, symbolism, and language during the process of concrescence," and then to apply this description to the specific case of religious experience.