Explorations in Whitehead's Philosophy ISBN: 0823211029 Authors:Lewis Ford George Kline Label: Fordham University Press Hardcover 353 pages, Edition: List Price: $45.00 [I woudn't. (WPT)]Found "on line" (Internet) :
". The Importance of being Inconsistent
Whitehead makes a significant distinction between inconsistency and incoherence: logical contractions, except as temporary slips of the mind -- plentiful, though temporary -- are the most gratuitous of errors; and usually they are trivial. Thus, after criticism, systems do not exhibit mere illogicalities. They suffer from inadequacy and incoherence. (Process 6)
I find that Whitehead�s final vision is remarkably free from inconsistency, though it does suffer from one major incoherence. He writes, "Incoherence is the arbitrary disconnection of first principles" (Process 6" etc.
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Was it really so, Mr. Philosopher ?