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Noramon Ransibrahmanakul

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  • Such a division between a world of essential qualities (matter, form, shape and substance) and one of secondary qualities (colour, sound, taste, emotion, thought and so on) is what the philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, in the 1920s, called the ‘bifurcation of nature’. And it is through a fallacy, what he termed the ‘fallacy of misplaced concreteness’, namely, the ‘error of mistaking the abstract for the concrete’, that we have taken the world of the abstract – the world given to physics – as more real, the originator, and the cause for the second one
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