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Full Idea
Whitehead tried to avoid points, and make do with extended regions and sets of regions.
Gist of Idea
Whitehead replaced points with extended regions
Source
report of Alfred North Whitehead (Process and Reality [1929]) by Willard Quine - Existence and Quantification p.93
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ontological Relativity and Other Essays' [Columbia 1969], p.93
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| 15389 | In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons] |
| 15247 | Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden] |
| 16962 | Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine] |
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