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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

A. N. Whitehead

 
9781440067532: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Rhythms of Reality explores how sameness and novelty shape objects, perception, and the flow of nature.

This concise examination reveals how patterns become life through the ongoing fusion of repetition and change, from atoms to living systems. The book frames a bold view of nature, where every object is tied to its events and their rhythm. It explains how scientific concepts express the causal relations that connect perception, matter, and the evolution of reality.

  • Understand how rhythm is built from both pattern and difference, and why mere repetition dulls it.
  • Learn how objects are defined by their relations to events and how life-bearing objects differ from simple patterns.
  • Explore how perception, scientific objects, and causation interlink to describe the world we observe.
  • Grasp the idea of transmission, action at a distance, and the dual sides of nature: creative advance and permanence.
Ideal for readers of philosophy of science and metaphysics, this edition helps clarify how rhythm, objects, and life contribute to our understanding of reality.

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Excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Originally published in 1919, and first republished in 1925 as this Second Edition, this text ranks among Whitehead's most important works; forming a perspective on scientific observation that incorporated a complex view of experience, rather than prioritising the position of 'pure' sense data.

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