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Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

— Alfred North Whitehead Adventures of Ideas (1933)

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In all philosophic theory there is an ultimate which is actual in virtue of its accidents.

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