SUO: *Date 19 Mar 2002 -- Modus Ponens
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Ontology As A Way Of Putting Things
| When you are criticising the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct
| your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it
| necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions
| which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously
| presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know
| what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever
| occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of
| types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems
| constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.
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| ANW, SMW, page 48.
|
| Alfred North Whitehead,
|'Science and the Modern World',
| Lowell Lectures 1925,
| Free Press, New York, NY, 1967.
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