Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦"’The beauty of the #economicman,’ as #AlfredNorthWhitehead remarked, 'was that we knew exactly what he was after’.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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“The progress of #philosophy does not primarily involve reactions of agreement or dissent. It essentially consists in the enlargement of #thought, whereby contradictions and agreements are transformed into partial aspects of wider points of view.” - #AlfredNorthWhitehead
Wisdom in SpaceIdeas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1926-08), “The Education of an Englishman,” Atlantic Monthly
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“ #Obscurantism is the refusal to speculate freely on the limitations of traditional methods. It is more than that: it is the negation of the importance of such speculation, the insistence on incidental dangers.” - #AlfredNorthWhitehead, The Function of #Reason
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
jan”Whitehead was marginalized for most of the century. That is changing. His time may be now.”
—Matthew D. Segall, The Cosmic Poetry of Whitehead's Philosophy
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/the-cosmic-poetry-of-whiteheads-philosophy #alfrednorthwhitehead #whitehead #philosophy
—Matthew D. Segall, The Cosmic Poetry of Whitehead's Philosophy
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/the-cosmic-poetry-of-whiteheads-philosophy #alfrednorthwhitehead #whitehead #philosophy
“There is no greater hindrance to the progress of #thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.” #AlfredNorthWhitehead
Joost RekveldBefore Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'.
