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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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  1. The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity…
  2. In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Perman…
  3. There is a greatness in the lives of those who build up religious systems, a greatness in action, in idea and in self-subordination, embodi…
  4. Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites of its own freedom and its own…
  5. The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
  6. Error is the price we pay for progress.
  7. The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advanc…
  8. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

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  • metaphysics
  • theory
  • clarity
  • language
  • precision

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