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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics' and 'Process and Reality'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
7719 European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification
10656 With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
15389 In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity
490 Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
9073 Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]
9074 Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]
9072 Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
15247 Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
16962 Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine]