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[catalogued under 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes]

Full Idea

We can find a solution to philosophical problems only if we succeed, by a reversal of our mental habits, to see in mobility the only reality that is actual. Immobility is but a picture taken of reality by our mind.

Gist of Idea

We only solve problems once we see that all of reality is mobile

Source

Henri Bergson (works [1910], III:560), quoted by Nicholas Rescher - Process Metaphysics 01.08

A Reaction

Rescher presents Bergson, along with the pragmatists and Whitehead, as a founder of process philosophy. Heraclitus, of course. Begson's view is undeniable at the atomic and subatomic level. But approximate immobilities dominate our world.

Book Reference

Rescher,Nicholas: 'Process Metaphysics' [SUNY 1996], p.17