Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. (Alfred North Whitehead)

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Alfred North Whitehead

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