Whitehead’s categoreal scheme
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Whitehead’s categoreal scheme is the systematic set of fundamental metaphysical categories he developed to explain the basic structure and processes of reality in his process philosophy.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Whiteheadian process philosophy | 1 |
| Whitehead’s categoreal scheme canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Whitehead’s categoreal scheme Context triple: [Part I: The Speculative Scheme, setsOut, Whitehead’s categoreal scheme]
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Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories
Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories is the section in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason where he derives the fundamental pure concepts of the understanding (the categories) from the logical forms of judgment.
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On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
"On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" is a highly influential 1974 philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that critiques the distinction between conceptual schemes and empirical content, challenging forms of relativism in the philosophy of language and mind.
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
The Logical Basis of Metaphysics is a major philosophical work by Michael Dummett that develops his influential views on realism, anti-realism, and the role of language in metaphysical debates.
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The Logical Structure of the World
The Logical Structure of the World is Rudolf Carnap’s seminal 1928 work in which he develops a rigorous, formal reconstruction of all scientific concepts from a phenomenalist basis, serving as a foundational text of logical positivism.
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Target entity: Whitehead’s categoreal scheme Target entity description: Whitehead’s categoreal scheme is the systematic set of fundamental metaphysical categories he developed to explain the basic structure and processes of reality in his process philosophy.
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A.
Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories
Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories is the section in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason where he derives the fundamental pure concepts of the understanding (the categories) from the logical forms of judgment.
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B.
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
"On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" is a highly influential 1974 philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that critiques the distinction between conceptual schemes and empirical content, challenging forms of relativism in the philosophy of language and mind.
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C.
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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D.
The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
The Logical Basis of Metaphysics is a major philosophical work by Michael Dummett that develops his influential views on realism, anti-realism, and the role of language in metaphysical debates.
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E.
The Logical Structure of the World
The Logical Structure of the World is Rudolf Carnap’s seminal 1928 work in which he develops a rigorous, formal reconstruction of all scientific concepts from a phenomenalist basis, serving as a foundational text of logical positivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
category scheme
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component of process philosophy ⓘ metaphysical system ⓘ |
| aim |
to explain the basic structure of reality
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to systematize process philosophy ⓘ |
| concerns |
God in process philosophy
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actual entities ⓘ creativity ⓘ eternal objects ⓘ fundamental categories of existence ⓘ nexus ⓘ prehension ⓘ process ⓘ |
| creator | Alfred North Whitehead ⓘ |
| describedIn | Process and Reality ⓘ |
| developedIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
becoming over static being
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interconnectedness of all actual entities ⓘ |
| includes |
Categoreal Obligations
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Categories of Existence ⓘ Categories of Explanation ⓘ Category of the Ultimate ⓘ |
| influenced |
analytic process metaphysics
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ecological metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ process theology ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
God as primordial and consequent nature
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actual occasions as basic units of reality ⓘ concrescence ⓘ creativity as ultimate principle ⓘ eternal objects as pure potentials ⓘ nexus as societies of occasions ⓘ prehension as relation of feeling ⓘ process as fundamental metaphysical fact ⓘ |
| language | technical metaphysical vocabulary ⓘ |
| opposes | substance metaphysics ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
20th-century metaphysics
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process philosophy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
event ontology
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relational metaphysics ⓘ |
| statusInWhitehead | foundation of his mature metaphysics ⓘ |
| structure | hierarchical organization of categories ⓘ |
| usedFor |
analysis of experience
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cosmological explanation ⓘ reconciling science and philosophy ⓘ |
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