However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the
epochal theory of
time, which stands as a great modification of Whitehead's
event ontology.
The classic example is the insertion of the «
Epochal Theory of
Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Real
Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «
events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of
time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Real
time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.