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Re: SUO: Continuants and Occurrents in 4D




>Please do you know any URL to his work or around it ?

Leonid,

Whitehead's major work on ontology is "Process and Reality",
which was published in 1929.  I don't know of any version
on the web.  However, his earlier book "Concept of Nature",
which is easier to read, since it does not use as highly
technical a vocabulary, is a good introduction.

I scanned a few pages into a file, which illustrates the
point I was making about processes as more fundamental
than objects:

   http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/ontology/anw_obj.htm

But I just tried using Google to find more references, and I
came across a web site that has the whole book.

   http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/Whitehead/White1_pref.html

You might start with the shorter excerpt on my site to get an
idea of his general approach before going to the full book.

John Sowa