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Suspended judgment in Whitehead
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Whitehead allows a proposition to enter conscious comparison without being affirmed or denied. This place for suspended judgment differs from a general skeptical discipline or a method of bracketing experience.
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Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world · Lesson 7 of 9
How can a possibility matter without being true?
For Whitehead, a proposition can engage us whether or not it is true. The lesson compares affirmation, denial and suspended judgment without making usefulness the test of truth.
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Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world
An experience receives a world it did not make, yet becomes something that was not there before. How can both be true? Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality builds a philosophy around that difficulty, asking us to begin with occasions of becoming and to explain enduring things, perception, judgment and value through their relations.