Sentences with phrase «pr xiv»

After all, «in philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly» (PR xiv).

Although Whitehead warned against «the merest hint of dogmatic certainty» (PR xiv), he also endeavored «to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas» (PR 3; emphasis added), and at least some of the elements of his system Whitehead himself called «categoreal conditions which flow from the final nature of things» (PR 222).

(PR xiv / ix)

In Process and Reality Whitehead produced a cosmology derived from several areas of knowledge and «years of meditation» (PR xiv / x).

He believed that «the true method of philosophical construction is to frame a scheme of ideas, the best that one can, and unflinchingly to explore the interpretation of experience in terms of that scheme» (PR xiv / x).

He wanted to move beyond a philosophy that was simply a «criticism of detached questions» and work toward constructive thought (PR xiv / x).

Whitehead reminded us that «The importance of philosophy lies in its sustained effort to make such schemes explicit, and thereby capable of criticism and improvement» (PR xiv, x).

Not exact matches

Rather, his concept of [actual] entity is meant to stand the traditional concept of substance on its head (PR xiii - xiv / vii - ix; 154-155/234).