Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process
thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «
deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary truths, is the
same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.