Ideas from 'Process Metaphysics' by Nicholas Rescher [1996], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Process Metaphysics' by Rescher,Nicholas [SUNY 1996,0-7914-2818-4]].

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Truth is indeterminate in processes like coming to be and passing away

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

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Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances

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Process philosophy is either phenomenological or biological or physical

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Prefer activity to substance, process to product, change to persistence, novelty to continuity

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A process is a coordinated group of changes, linked causally or functionally

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Aristotelians say all processes are 'owned', and are thus subordinate to things

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The orthodox view sees processes as the manifestations of stable dispositions of things

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Processes without entities are possible, but there can't be entities without processes

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Processes instantiate and transmit patterns, though these are not predictable

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

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Maybe physical objects are stability-waves in a sea of processes

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Processes and events like storms are just as real as things like dogs

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

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The world contains many 'things' which are not substances

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 6. Knowing How

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A key form of knowing-how is knowing how to obtain and apply knowing-that

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

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Primary properties describe what it is; secondary properties underlie the impact and responses

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

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What has value for humans is quite separate from any ideas of endurance and permanency