Whitehead includes appearance as part of reality. Appearance is often describes as illusion, masking the reality that lies underneath or beyond it. For Whitehead, there is only one reality and what we experience is part of that reality. Appearance is the presented and interpreted surface of real entities but still a very real part. Other parts of reality include propositions (perceived alternatives) and other thoughts, sympathy and other feelings as well as anything that can be sensed. All actualities, and this is what constitutes the whole of reality, act. Actualities act upon all other subjectively, sympathetically, experientially, propositionally and physically.
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