Actual Entity and Actual Occasion: Are These Terms Interchangeable or Quite Different?

Process Studies 46 (2):270-284 (2017)
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In this article I argue against the claim that “actual entity” and “actual occasion” are synonymous in Whitehead. My examination of these terms will help to illuminate the role of “society” in Whitehead’s philosophy and to prepare the way for a fruitful comparison of process thought and contemporary systems theory in the sciences.

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10.5406/processstudies.46.2.0270

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