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57302d8ea23a5019007fcf05 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | How long did Whitehead and Russell think it would take them to complete Principia Mathematica? | {
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83
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57302d8ea23a5019007fcf06 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | How long did it actually take Whitehead and Russell to complete Principia Mathematica? | {
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"ten years"
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127
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57302d8ea23a5019007fcf07 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | How many volumes was Principia Mathematica? | {
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"three"
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202
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57302d8ea23a5019007fcf08 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | How many pages was Principia Mathematica? | {
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"2,000"
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246
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57302d8ea23a5019007fcf09 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | Who paid to publish Principia Mathematica? | {
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"Cambridge University Press"
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398
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} |
573326c84776f4190066071c | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | How long did Whitehead and Russell expect to spend creating Principia Mathematica? | {
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"a year"
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83
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} |
573326c84776f4190066071d | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years. To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that... | How long did it actually take to complete Principia Mathematica? | {
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"ten years"
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127
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57302ed0947a6a140053d242 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | The ultimate substantive legacy of Principia Mathematica is mixed. It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be ... | When was Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem? | {
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"1931"
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136
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57302ed0947a6a140053d244 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | The ultimate substantive legacy of Principia Mathematica is mixed. It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be ... | Godel couldn't have come to his conclusion without what book? | {
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"Principia Mathematica"
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511
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57302ed0947a6a140053d245 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | The ultimate substantive legacy of Principia Mathematica is mixed. It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be ... | Besides logic and epistemology, what else did Principia Mathematica connect? | {
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"metaphysics"
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793
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} |
57332caa4776f41900660744 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | The ultimate substantive legacy of Principia Mathematica is mixed. It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be ... | What is the general consensus of the axioms and inference rules declared in Principia Mathematica? | {
"text": [
"mixed"
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60
]
} |
57332caa4776f41900660745 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | The ultimate substantive legacy of Principia Mathematica is mixed. It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be ... | Who discovered the incompleteness theorem of 1931? | {
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"Kurt Gödel"
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97
]
} |
5730303c04bcaa1900d7731b | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was p... | What year was The Aims of Education and Other Essays published? | {
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"1929"
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51
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} |
5730303c04bcaa1900d7731c | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was p... | What was the Aims of Education and Other Essays comprised of? | {
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"numerous essays and addresses"
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117
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5730303c04bcaa1900d7731d | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was p... | What teaching did Whitehead caution against teaching? | {
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"inert ideas"
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443
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} |
57332e96d058e614000b576c | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was p... | When was "The Aims of Education and Other Essays" published? | {
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"1929"
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51
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} |
57332e96d058e614000b576d | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was p... | During what periods of time were the essays and address contained in "The Aims of Education and Other Essays" composed? | {
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"between 1912 and 1927"
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185
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} |
57303159a23a5019007fcf51 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Rather than teach small parts of a large number of subjects, Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts that the student could organically link to many different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life. For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisc... | Whitehead's education style was to teach what? | {
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"a relatively few important concepts"
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90
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} |
57303159a23a5019007fcf52 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Rather than teach small parts of a large number of subjects, Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts that the student could organically link to many different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life. For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisc... | What should Whitehead's students organically link due to his teaching methods? | {
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"different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life."
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174
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} |
57303159a23a5019007fcf53 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Rather than teach small parts of a large number of subjects, Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts that the student could organically link to many different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life. For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisc... | Whitehead believed education should be the opposite of what? | {
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"value-free school model"
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330
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} |
573330eb4776f41900660762 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Rather than teach small parts of a large number of subjects, Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts that the student could organically link to many different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life. For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisc... | What did Whitehead believe regarding the variety of subjects in education? | {
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"Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts"
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61
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} |
57303233a23a5019007fcf57 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead did not begin his career as a philosopher. In fact, he never had any formal training in philosophy beyond his undergraduate education. Early in his life he showed great interest in and respect for philosophy and metaphysics, but it is evident that he considered himself a rank amateur. In one letter to his fri... | What is the highest Whitehead was trained in philosophy? | {
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"undergraduate"
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120
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} |
57303233a23a5019007fcf58 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead did not begin his career as a philosopher. In fact, he never had any formal training in philosophy beyond his undergraduate education. Early in his life he showed great interest in and respect for philosophy and metaphysics, but it is evident that he considered himself a rank amateur. In one letter to his fri... | What did Whitehead consider himself as a philosopher? | {
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"rank amateur"
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282
]
} |
57303233a23a5019007fcf59 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead did not begin his career as a philosopher. In fact, he never had any formal training in philosophy beyond his undergraduate education. Early in his life he showed great interest in and respect for philosophy and metaphysics, but it is evident that he considered himself a rank amateur. In one letter to his fri... | What is the relationship between Whitehead and Russell? | {
"text": [
"friend and former student"
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317
]
} |
57303233a23a5019007fcf5a | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead did not begin his career as a philosopher. In fact, he never had any formal training in philosophy beyond his undergraduate education. Early in his life he showed great interest in and respect for philosophy and metaphysics, but it is evident that he considered himself a rank amateur. In one letter to his fri... | What was Whitehead considered as a metaphysician? | {
"text": [
"one of the 20th century's foremost metaphysicians."
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"answer_start": [
631
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} |
573332b94776f4190066077f | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead did not begin his career as a philosopher. In fact, he never had any formal training in philosophy beyond his undergraduate education. Early in his life he showed great interest in and respect for philosophy and metaphysics, but it is evident that he considered himself a rank amateur. In one letter to his fri... | With what friend and former student did Whitehead correspond regarding the goals of science? | {
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"Bertrand Russell"
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"answer_start": [
343
]
} |
5730938d069b53140083219d | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead was unimpressed by this objection. In the notes of one his students for a 1927 class, Whitehead was quoted as saying: "Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics. What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized." In Whitehead's view, scientists a... | What do philosophers do, in Whitehead's view? | {
"text": [
"make metaphysical assumptions about how the universe works"
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"answer_start": [
336
]
} |
5730938d069b53140083219e | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead was unimpressed by this objection. In the notes of one his students for a 1927 class, Whitehead was quoted as saying: "Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics. What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized." In Whitehead's view, scientists a... | Assumptions of how the universe works are difficult to see precisely because of what? | {
"text": [
"they remain unexamined and unquestioned"
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"answer_start": [
468
]
} |
5730938d069b53140083219f | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead was unimpressed by this objection. In the notes of one his students for a 1927 class, Whitehead was quoted as saying: "Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics. What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized." In Whitehead's view, scientists a... | What did Whitehead ask people to reimagine in order for philosophy to make progress? | {
"text": [
"basic assumptions about how the universe works"
],
"answer_start": [
690
]
} |
5730938d069b5314008321a0 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead was unimpressed by this objection. In the notes of one his students for a 1927 class, Whitehead was quoted as saying: "Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics. What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized." In Whitehead's view, scientists a... | What did Whitehead regard as essential to good science and good philosophy? | {
"text": [
"metaphysical investigations"
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"answer_start": [
883
]
} |
5730956e396df919000961c2 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fund... | What idea states that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter? | {
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"Cartesian idea"
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89
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} |
5730956e396df919000961c3 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fund... | Whitehead rejected the Cartesian idea in favor of what? | {
"text": [
"an event-based or \"process\" ontology"
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"answer_start": [
243
]
} |
5730956e396df919000961c4 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fund... | Whitehead believed instead of matter existing independently of each other, it did what? | {
"text": [
"interrelated and dependent"
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330
]
} |
5730956e396df919000961c5 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fund... | Whitehead believed that reality should be regarded as what? | {
"text": [
"experiential"
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451
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} |
5730956e396df919000961c6 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fund... | Whitehead's system as "philosophy of organism" became widely known as what term? | {
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"process philosophy"
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937
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} |
573338734776f419006607a6 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Perhaps foremost among what Whitehead considered faulty metaphysical assumptions was the Cartesian idea that reality is fundamentally constructed of bits of matter that exist totally independently of one another, which he rejected in favor of an event-based or "process" ontology in which events are primary and are fund... | How did Whitehead identify his system of metaphysics? | {
"text": [
"\"philosophy of organism\""
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"answer_start": [
869
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} |
573096d2396df919000961d4 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | In all of the western canon, what is Whitehead's work considered? | {
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"the most difficult to understand"
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"answer_start": [
148
]
} |
573096d2396df919000961d5 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | Who also struggled to follow Whitehead's writings? | {
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"professional philosophers"
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215
]
} |
573096d2396df919000961d6 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | When did Whitehead delivery the Gifford lectures? | {
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"1927–28"
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426
]
} |
573096d2396df919000961d7 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | Following Arthur Eddington's lectures, what did Whitehead publish? | {
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"Process and Reality"
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"answer_start": [
536
]
} |
57333a74d058e614000b579f | Alfred_North_Whitehead | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | What lectures did Whitehead present in 1927-28? | {
"text": [
"Gifford lectures"
],
"answer_start": [
406
]
} |
57333a74d058e614000b57a0 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | This is not to say that Whitehead's thought was widely accepted or even well-understood. His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon. Even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writings. One famous story illustrating the lev... | Under what name were those lectures later published? | {
"text": [
"Process and Reality"
],
"answer_start": [
536
]
} |
5730976a069b5314008321b9 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | Who was frustrated in Whitehead's books but still interested? | {
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"Mathews"
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"answer_start": [
9
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} |
5730976a069b5314008321ba | Alfred_North_Whitehead | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | What school recognized the importance of Whitehead's work? | {
"text": [
"Chicago's Divinity School"
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"answer_start": [
154
]
} |
5730976a069b5314008321bb | Alfred_North_Whitehead | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | Who was invited to the Chicago Divinity school as one of Whitehead's only experts? | {
"text": [
"Henry Nelson Wieman"
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"answer_start": [
361
]
} |
5730976a069b5314008321bc | Alfred_North_Whitehead | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | When was Henry Nelson Wieman invited to the Chicago Divinity school? | {
"text": [
"1927"
],
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301
]
} |
5730976a069b5314008321bd | Alfred_North_Whitehead | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | What happened after Henry Nelson Wieman gave a lecture about Whitehead? | {
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"hired"
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499
]
} |
57333c754776f419006607b8 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | However, Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest. In fact, there were numerous philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School that perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications. In 1927 they invited o... | What expert on Whitehead delivered a lecture at the school to explain Whitehead's ideas? | {
"text": [
"Henry Nelson Wieman"
],
"answer_start": [
361
]
} |
573098542461fd1900a9cedb | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Wieman's words proved prophetic. Though Process and Reality has been called "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century," it has been little-read and little-understood, partly because it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions ... | Which publication is considered the most impressive metaphysical text? | {
"text": [
"Process and Reality"
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"answer_start": [
40
]
} |
573098542461fd1900a9cedc | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Wieman's words proved prophetic. Though Process and Reality has been called "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century," it has been little-read and little-understood, partly because it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions ... | Who thought Process and Reality was little-read because the reader has to separate them from normal thought? | {
"text": [
"Isabelle Stengers"
],
"answer_start": [
236
]
} |
573098542461fd1900a9cedd | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Wieman's words proved prophetic. Though Process and Reality has been called "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century," it has been little-read and little-understood, partly because it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions ... | What philosophy in the west was challenged by Whitehead? | {
"text": [
"how the universe works"
],
"answer_start": [
444
]
} |
573098542461fd1900a9cede | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Wieman's words proved prophetic. Though Process and Reality has been called "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century," it has been little-read and little-understood, partly because it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions ... | What was Whitehead's philosophy able to anticipate for the 21st century? | {
"text": [
"scientific and philosophical problems"
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"answer_start": [
534
]
} |
573098542461fd1900a9cedf | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Wieman's words proved prophetic. Though Process and Reality has been called "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century," it has been little-read and little-understood, partly because it demands – as Isabelle Stengers puts it – "that its readers accept the adventure of the questions ... | What was the outcome of anticipating the scientific and philosophical problems Whitehead proposed? | {
"text": [
"novel solutions"
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"answer_start": [
584
]
} |
5730991d2461fd1900a9ceed | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | Concepts such as quality, matter, and form fail to account for what? | {
"text": [
"change"
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151
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} |
5730991d2461fd1900a9ceee | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | What concepts overlook the experiential nature of basic elements? | {
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"quality\", \"matter\", and \"form\""
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45
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} |
5730991d2461fd1900a9ceef | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | What are the concepts quality, matter, and form considered? | {
"text": [
"\"classical\" concepts"
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99
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} |
5730991d2461fd1900a9cef0 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | Instead of being a single person, what does Whitehead view a person as? | {
"text": [
"continuum of overlapping events"
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425
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} |
5730991d2461fd1900a9cef1 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | What does Whitehead call experiences that are progressively connected? | {
"text": [
"society"
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"answer_start": [
692
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} |
57333fbad058e614000b57d2 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | What basic concepts did Whitehead believe were questionable? | {
"text": [
"\"quality\", \"matter\", and \"form\""
],
"answer_start": [
44
]
} |
57333fbad058e614000b57d4 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | How did Whitehead classify what is usually seen as an individual person? | {
"text": [
"a continuum of overlapping events"
],
"answer_start": [
423
]
} |
57333fbad058e614000b57d5 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blo... | How did Whitehead refer to the combination of a person's separate experiences? | {
"text": [
"a \"society\" of events"
],
"answer_start": [
689
]
} |
57309b8f396df91900096206 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | The idea that people are unchanging and stay the same even through changes is considered what? | {
"text": [
"defining essence"
],
"answer_start": [
68
]
} |
57309b8f396df91900096207 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | In Whitehead's cosmology, what are the only things that fundamentally exist? | {
"text": [
"occasions of experience"
],
"answer_start": [
518
]
} |
57309b8f396df91900096208 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | Where do occasions of experience overlap? | {
"text": [
"time and space"
],
"answer_start": [
571
]
} |
57309b8f396df91900096209 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | In Whitehead's view, identities do not define people, but what? | {
"text": [
"people define identities"
],
"answer_start": [
913
]
} |
57309b8f396df9190009620a | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | Instead of having an enduring essence, what does Whitehead believe? | {
"text": [
"all things flow\""
],
"answer_start": [
1060
]
} |
573344744776f419006607dc | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | Regarding the idea that individuals or objects don't fundamentally change, what terms can be used to describe what an object or individual actually is? | {
"text": [
"\"defining essence\" or a \"core identity\""
],
"answer_start": [
67
]
} |
573344744776f419006607dd | Alfred_North_Whitehead | To put it another way, a thing or person is often seen as having a "defining essence" or a "core identity" that is unchanging, and describes what the thing or person really is. In this way of thinking, things and people are seen as fundamentally the same through time, with any changes being qualitative and secondary to... | In that line of thinking, how are changes described? | {
"text": [
"qualitative and secondary to their core identity"
],
"answer_start": [
292
]
} |
57309dbb8ab72b1400f9c5f0 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it ... | What did Whitehead believe was a culprit in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking? | {
"text": [
"limitations of language"
],
"answer_start": [
25
]
} |
57309dbb8ab72b1400f9c5f1 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it ... | Why couldn't each moment of each person's life be given a different proper name? | {
"text": [
"limitations of language"
],
"answer_start": [
25
]
} |
57335187d058e614000b5854 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it ... | What did Whitehead believe was one of the biggest reasons materialistic thinking endured? | {
"text": [
"limitations of language"
],
"answer_start": [
25
]
} |
57335187d058e614000b5857 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it ... | What did Whitehead state about the belief that a person is exactly the same from moment to moment? | {
"text": [
"it is not philosophically or ontologically sound"
],
"answer_start": [
940
]
} |
57309e35069b5314008321c9 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | A second problem with materialism is that it obscures the importance of relations. It sees every object as distinct and discrete from all other objects. Each object is simply an inert clump of matter that is only externally related to other things. The idea of matter as primary makes people think of objects as being fu... | What obscures the importance of relations according to Whitehead? | {
"text": [
"materialism"
],
"answer_start": [
22
]
} |
57309e35069b5314008321ca | Alfred_North_Whitehead | A second problem with materialism is that it obscures the importance of relations. It sees every object as distinct and discrete from all other objects. Each object is simply an inert clump of matter that is only externally related to other things. The idea of matter as primary makes people think of objects as being fu... | What does Materialism see each object as? | {
"text": [
"distinct and discrete"
],
"answer_start": [
107
]
} |
57309e35069b5314008321cb | Alfred_North_Whitehead | A second problem with materialism is that it obscures the importance of relations. It sees every object as distinct and discrete from all other objects. Each object is simply an inert clump of matter that is only externally related to other things. The idea of matter as primary makes people think of objects as being fu... | How is each object related to other things? | {
"text": [
"externally"
],
"answer_start": [
213
]
} |
573352f9d058e614000b585c | Alfred_North_Whitehead | A second problem with materialism is that it obscures the importance of relations. It sees every object as distinct and discrete from all other objects. Each object is simply an inert clump of matter that is only externally related to other things. The idea of matter as primary makes people think of objects as being fu... | What is another issue that Whitehead had with materialism? | {
"text": [
"it obscures the importance of relations"
],
"answer_start": [
42
]
} |
57309ede396df91900096219 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In fact, Whitehead describes any entity as in some sense nothing more and nothing less than the sum of its relations to other entities – its synthesis of and reaction to the world around it. A real thing is just that which forces the rest of the universe to in some way conform to it; that is to say, if theoretically a ... | If an object made no difference to any other entity, what could be said about it? | {
"text": [
"not be said to really exist."
],
"answer_start": [
430
]
} |
57309ede396df9190009621a | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In fact, Whitehead describes any entity as in some sense nothing more and nothing less than the sum of its relations to other entities – its synthesis of and reaction to the world around it. A real thing is just that which forces the rest of the universe to in some way conform to it; that is to say, if theoretically a ... | If relations are not secondary to what a thing is, what is it? | {
"text": [
"they are what the thing is"
],
"answer_start": [
507
]
} |
57309ede396df9190009621b | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In fact, Whitehead describes any entity as in some sense nothing more and nothing less than the sum of its relations to other entities – its synthesis of and reaction to the world around it. A real thing is just that which forces the rest of the universe to in some way conform to it; that is to say, if theoretically a ... | What makes up the sum of relations to an entity? | {
"text": [
"rld around it"
],
"answer_start": [
176
]
} |
57309ede396df9190009621c | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In fact, Whitehead describes any entity as in some sense nothing more and nothing less than the sum of its relations to other entities – its synthesis of and reaction to the world around it. A real thing is just that which forces the rest of the universe to in some way conform to it; that is to say, if theoretically a ... | A real object forces the universe to do what? | {
"text": [
"in some way conform to it"
],
"answer_start": [
258
]
} |
57309fa8396df91900096222 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | It must be emphasized, however, that an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them. For Whitehead, creativity is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of novelty in how it responds t... | An entity is a sum of relations, a valuation of them and what else? | {
"text": [
"reaction to them."
],
"answer_start": [
118
]
} |
57309fa8396df91900096223 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | It must be emphasized, however, that an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them. For Whitehead, creativity is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of novelty in how it responds t... | Most entities do not have what? | {
"text": [
"consciousness"
],
"answer_start": [
434
]
} |
57309fa8396df91900096224 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | It must be emphasized, however, that an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them. For Whitehead, creativity is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of novelty in how it responds t... | All entities, being unable to predict behavior, are because of what? | {
"text": [
"the fundamental creativity/freedom of all entities"
],
"answer_start": [
762
]
} |
57309fa8396df91900096225 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | It must be emphasized, however, that an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them. For Whitehead, creativity is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of novelty in how it responds t... | Not being able to predict what any entity is going to do is what principle b Whitehead? | {
"text": [
"creativity is the absolute principle of existence"
],
"answer_start": [
151
]
} |
573358f2d058e614000b58aa | Alfred_North_Whitehead | It must be emphasized, however, that an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them. For Whitehead, creativity is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of novelty in how it responds t... | What did Whitehead believe regarding creativity? | {
"text": [
"creativity is the absolute principle of existence"
],
"answer_start": [
151
]
} |
5730a0a98ab72b1400f9c614 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | What term did Whitehead describe that perception is not limited to the living? | {
"text": [
"prehension"
],
"answer_start": [
209
]
} |
5730a0a98ab72b1400f9c615 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | What language does the term "prehensio" come from? | {
"text": [
"Latin"
],
"answer_start": [
243
]
} |
5730a0a98ab72b1400f9c616 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | What does the word "Prehensio" translate into? | {
"text": [
"to seize"
],
"answer_start": [
269
]
} |
5730a0a98ab72b1400f9c617 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | What entities does the term prehension apply to? | {
"text": [
"conscious or unconscious"
],
"answer_start": [
343
]
} |
5730a0a98ab72b1400f9c618 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | How many modes does perception occur in according to Whitehead? | {
"text": [
"two"
],
"answer_start": [
872
]
} |
57335ac6d058e614000b58ce | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | What is the origin of the word "prehension"? | {
"text": [
"comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning \"to seize.\""
],
"answer_start": [
228
]
} |
57335ac6d058e614000b58d0 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Since Whitehead's metaphysics described a universe in which all entities experience, he needed a new way of describing perception that was not limited to living, self-conscious beings. The term he coined was "prehension", which comes from the Latin prehensio, meaning "to seize." The term is meant to indicate a kind of ... | What is a basic description of the theory of representative perception? | {
"text": [
"the mind only has private ideas about other entities"
],
"answer_start": [
519
]
} |
5730a11b2461fd1900a9cf11 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the su... | What is the term for the experience dominating primitive organisms that have a sense for fate? | {
"text": [
"causal efficacy"
],
"answer_start": [
20
]
} |
5730a11b2461fd1900a9cf12 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the su... | What is the other term for "pure sense perception"? | {
"text": [
"Presentational immediacy"
],
"answer_start": [
369
]
} |
5730a11b2461fd1900a9cf13 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the su... | What is it called if you mistake a reflection in a mirror for the real thing? | {
"text": [
"Presentational immediacy"
],
"answer_start": [
369
]
} |
57335d8dd058e614000b5920 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the su... | How do the senses affect causal efficacy? | {
"text": [
"unmediated by the senses"
],
"answer_start": [
343
]
} |
5730a33f8ab72b1400f9c628 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In higher organisms (like people), these two modes of perception combine into what Whitehead terms "symbolic reference", which links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it. By way of illustration, Whitehead uses the example of a person... | What is Whitehead's term for the two modes of perceptions combining? | {
"text": [
"symbolic reference"
],
"answer_start": [
100
]
} |
5730a33f8ab72b1400f9c629 | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In higher organisms (like people), these two modes of perception combine into what Whitehead terms "symbolic reference", which links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it. By way of illustration, Whitehead uses the example of a person... | What does symbolic reference link appearance with? | {
"text": [
"causation"
],
"answer_start": [
149
]
} |
5730a33f8ab72b1400f9c62a | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In higher organisms (like people), these two modes of perception combine into what Whitehead terms "symbolic reference", which links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it. By way of illustration, Whitehead uses the example of a person... | What dominates more basic mentality in symbolic reference? | {
"text": [
"causal relationships"
],
"answer_start": [
1126
]
} |
5730a33f8ab72b1400f9c62b | Alfred_North_Whitehead | In higher organisms (like people), these two modes of perception combine into what Whitehead terms "symbolic reference", which links appearance with causation in a process that is so automatic that both people and animals have difficulty refraining from it. By way of illustration, Whitehead uses the example of a person... | What does having sense perceptions conclude about a person? | {
"text": [
"higher grade mentality"
],
"answer_start": [
1263
]
} |
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