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...this suffix down, any number can play-and do. A recent novel speaks of drinkingness (more pleasurable than drunkenness). One Texas preacher is currently using everything from thereness and scatteredness to gatheredness-which suggests that he owes a debt to togetherness, used in the 1920s by Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead long before Madison Avenue took it over. Another early ness-builder was Mr. Justice Holmes, who defended his decisions by saying: "I do accept a rough equation between isness and oughtness." Teacher Foote has spotted the malpractice as far back as a rare 16th century book that describes Fingal...
During the last seventy years Russell's thinking has formed an indelible imprint on his times. He grew up in the Cambridge of Whitehead, Moore, Broad, Wittgenstein, Eddington, Rutherford, and Keynes, and he has always seemed a product of the intellectual vigor of Cambridge undergraduate life at the turn of the century. Those were the days before an English University education had become part of the professional class's struggle for existence, and for Whitehead and Russell, Cambridge conformed almost exactly to the Platonic ideal of education; they divided their time between mathematics and free discussion with their friends...
Above all, Southern Rhodesia's government is showing signs of bending before the suasion of a largely antiracist world. Rising at the annual conference of his powerful United Federal Party, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead announced that if his party wins the election next year, his government will ban racial discrimination in most areas of life, a shift that would change the face of the nation. The local black African nationalists are unimpressed, insist on the grant of immediate universal suffrage, which Whitehead has not promised. Said one of their leaders: "We are not interested in the elimination...
Blanshard, currently professor of philosophy at Yale, utilized a well-known Whitehead dichotomy in discussing "Practical Reason...
According to Whitehead, human thought can be divided into the reason of Plato and the reason of Ulysses. The platonic thinker is a spectator all of the time, "a spinner of mathematical webs." Men of the Ulysses genre, on the other hand, possess the "wisdom of foxes...