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Single Idea 24395

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

Full Idea

Process philosophy insists that processes themselves both instantiate and transmit structural patterns. …That is denied is the exclusive prevalence of inevitable preestablished patterns that make prediction unfailingly possible.

Gist of Idea

Processes instantiate and transmit patterns, though these are not predictable

Source

Nicholas Rescher (Process Metaphysics [1996], 3.2)

A Reaction

I include this because it offers a link to the idea of mathematics (in Resnik's phrase) as 'the science of patterns'. What then links the enduring nature of mathematics to unpredictable patterns is functions, which are multiply realisable.

Book Reference

Rescher,Nicholas: 'Process Metaphysics' [SUNY 1996], p.76