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Whiteheadian, a.|hwaɪtˈhɛdɪən|
[f. the name Whitehead + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the English mathematician and philosopher A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947) or his ideas.
1943Mind LII. 68 The Whiteheadian attempt to reconcile permanence and flux, time and eternity. 1977Church Times 25 Feb. 6/5 Process theology has taken over the Whiteheadian scheme and used it as a means of expounding the Christian faith. 1978Christian IV. iv. 328 The last point..follows if it is true— as the Whiteheadian conceptuality to which I happen to subscribe would say—that ‘a thing is what a thing does’. |