“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”
Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
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Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 6.
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