Sentences with phrase «explanation xviii»

It is understood in connection with Aristotle, Locke, Hume and even Descartes.17 In the Category of Explanation xviii, it is formulated as follows: «that every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason either in the character of some actual entity in the actual world of that concrescence, or in the character of the subject which is in process of concrescence.»

Besides the one quoted above (Category of Explanation xviii), Whitehead also circumscribes it, in reference to Locke, as «the principle that the reasons for things are always to be found in the composite natures of definite actual entities» (Process 19).