单词 | whiteheadian |
释义 | Whiteheadianadj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of A. N. Whitehead or his work.Whitehead (1861–1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher who worked in the fields of symbolic logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. His theory that the ultimate components of reality are events rather than substances gave rise to the school of process philosophy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [adjective] > of organism or process philosophy prehended1907 prehensive1925 Whiteheadian1928 prehending1929 prehensible1947 1928 Jrnl. Philos. 25 276 The nature of the Whiteheadian God. 1954 N.Y. Times 9 May br3/4 One other major Whiteheadian theme..is the persisting need for suspicion of the precisions of language. 1975 New Scientist 31 July 284/1 I tried to put the Whiteheadian outlook to actual use in particular experimental situations. 2008 Rev. Metaphysics 62 329 Whitehead ends up far closer to Dewey than Dewey recognized—and than most Whiteheadian commentators realize. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1928 |
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