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Contour
” The spiritual world is not a world of unrealised ideals, over against a real world of unspiritual fact. It’s on the contrary, the real world, of which we have a true though very incomplete knowledge, over against a world of common experience which, as a complete whole, is not real, since it’s compacted out…
Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
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Perspective
“Knowledge is ultimate. There can be no explanation of the ‘ Why ‘ of knowledge ; we can only describe the ‘ What ‘ of knowledge . Namely we can analyse the content and it’s internal relations , but we cannot explain why there is knowledge. Thus causal nature is a metaphysical chimera ; though…
Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
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Position
” In all discussions of Nature we must remember the differences of scale, and in particular the differences of time-span. We are apt to take modes of observable functioning of the human body as setting an absolute scale. It is extremely rash to extend conclusions derived from observation far beyond the scale of magnitude to…
Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
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The concept of Nature
” It is an exhibition of the process of nature that each duration happens and passes. The process of nature can also be termed the “passage of nature’ . I definitely refrain at this stage from using the word ‘time’ , since the measurable time of science and of civilized life generally merely exhibits some…
Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
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