Process-Relational Philosophy - Whitehead

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         The philosophy of process is a venture in metaphysics, the general theory of reality. Its 
        concern is with what exists in the world and with the terms of reference in which this 
        reality is to be understood and explained. The task of metaphysics is, after all, to 
        provide a cogent and plausible account of the nature of reality at the broadest, most 
        synoptic and comprehensive level. And it is to this mission of enabling us to 
        characterize, describe, clarify and explain the most general features of the real that 
        process philosophy addresses itself in its own characteristic way. The guiding idea of its 
        approach is that natural existence consists in and is best understood in terms of 
        processes rather than things -- of modes of change rather than fixed stabilities. For 
        processists, change of every sort -- physical, organic, psychological -- is the pervasive 
        and predominant feature of the real.
      
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        Process philosophy diametrically opposes the view -- as old as Parmenides and Zeno and the 
        Atomists of Pre-Socratic Greece -- that denies processes or downgrades them in the order 
        of being or of understanding by subordinating them to substantial things. By contrast, 
        process philosophy pivots on the thesis that the processual nature of existence is a 
        fundamental fact with which any adequate metaphysic must come to terms.
      
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