He can in this way realign
philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on
corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9