Questions tagged [process]
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Formal deduction of Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism
In Process and Reality Whitehead starts off the investigation by giving his categoreal scheme - different types of categories and their derivatives, as well as some axioms. If I understand correctly, and by the references Whitehead sometimes makes…
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Is process philosophy at odds with orthodox Christian theology?
Process philosophy regards change, as opposed to stasis, as the basis of reality. Does this contradict orthodox Christian theology, such as Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and the various Protestant denominations, or could the former be derived from the…
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In a Descartes square are the statements just the negations of each other?
There is a decision making method based on wrapping problems into a Descartes square by answering 4 questions.
I've tried to use it for my own decision process but I couldn't figure out what to place into the "What won't happen if this doesn't…
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Beginning of time problems?
Dear philosophy stackexchange,
I'm curious as to whether there have been arguments by philosophers for there being a finite past/future or whether it has always been past/future temporally infinite? Ever since i've first been met with the…
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The non-spacetime existence of processes
I've been reading Process Philosophy and the Whiteheadian conception of processes describe them to be existing in "non-spacetime" dimensions. How can it be explicated in simpler terms? "Non-spacetime" dimensions really defy my intellectual grasping…
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Can we have more than a conviction that a statement is true?
How do we know 1 + 1 = 2 ?
We step through the logic, one step at time, and at the end
we agree it is a true statement.
So at the end we know something is true because in the process
we can remember, at each point we agreed with the logic and
came…
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