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Whitehead's Intuitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
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At the beginning of Process and Reality, as he engages in a preliminary discussion of the Category of the Ultimate, Whitehead makes a crucial statement: “The sole appeal is to intuition.” (P.R. 32). In like fashion he says in Adventures of Ideas: “All knowledge is derived from, and verified by, direct intuitive observation.” (A.I. 228) He makes laudatory reference to the “complete concreteness” of intuitive experience and the absence of “analytic divorce from the total environment.” (S.M.W. 94, 279)

Type
Critical notices/Études critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 166 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1978

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