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

A. N. Whitehead

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

Synopsis

Rhythm matters: how patterns fuse sameness with novelty to give life its shape. This section explains how rhythm isn’t just repetition; it’s the balance between a pattern and the differences that reveal its true character. It also shows how living life depends on stable yet evolving relations among objects and events.

The discussion connects the idea of rhythm to everyday objects, scientific concepts, and the way we perceive the world. It traces how physical objects gain meaning through their place in events, how science names those relationships with objects like electrons, and how perception binds ideas of space and time into a single world. The content invites readers to see how life, matter, and change fit together in nature’s ongoing flow.


  • What makes rhythm more than a pattern, and how unity and novelty contribute to life.

  • How objects are tied to events and how life-bearing entities differ from mere patterns.

  • How scientific concepts express the causal relations that shape perception and nature.

  • How space, time, and perception combine to form our view of the world.



Ideal for readers curious about philosophy of science, the nature of objects, and how rhythm underpins both physical phenomena and living systems.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

Modern speculative physics with its revolutionary theories concerning the natures of matter and of electricity has made urgent the question, What are the ultimate data of science? It is in accordance with the nature Of things that mankind should find itself acting and should then proceed to discuss the rationale of its activities. Thus the creation of science precedes the analysis of its data and can even be accompanied by the acceptance of faulty analyses, though such errors end by warping scientific imagination.

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November 27,1898 toM arch 13,1918 Killed in action over the Foret de Gobain giving himself that the city of his vision may not perish. The music of his life was without discord, perfect in its beauty.
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