Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Assumption

Quotes about: Assumption

• Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Parent, Criticism, Generations

• "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Math, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.62, Open Road Media

• There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Numbers, People

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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