The Extensive Continuum versus the Extensive Dis-Continuum in Whitehead
In this article, I argue for the redundancy of Whitehead's Platonic notion of the extensive continuum, counterposing it to his related notion of an atomic ether of events. I argue that Whitehead's atomic ether is more compatible with orthodox general relativity than generally supposed an...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Illinois Press
[2018]
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Process studies
Année: 2018, Volume: 47, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 5-25 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Objet (Philosophie)
/ Continuum
/ Géométrie
/ Abstraction
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| Classifications IxTheo: | TK Époque contemporaine VA Philosophie |
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| Résumé: | In this article, I argue for the redundancy of Whitehead's Platonic notion of the extensive continuum, counterposing it to his related notion of an atomic ether of events. I argue that Whitehead's atomic ether is more compatible with orthodox general relativity than generally supposed and remarkably close to the contemporary idea of a discrete manifold in the causal set theory of quantum gravity. I argue that the method of extensive abstraction complements Whitehead's atomic hypothesis by demonstrating the ultimately fictive nature of any continuum. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/21 |