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Whiteheadian /ˌwʌɪtˈhɛdɪən/adjectiveOf, relating to, or characteristic of A. N. Whitehead or his work.- Whitehead (1861–1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher who worked in the fields of symbolic logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. His theory that the ultimate components of reality are events rather than substances gave rise to the school of process philosophy..
Origin 1920s; earliest use found in Journal of Philosophy. From the name of Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher + -ian. |