...the process of understanding the world and of generalization, he is inevitably led to 'the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of...terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted'.3 Moreover, it is not simply a question of synthesizing the sciences. For the analysis...

...an integrative view of all systems and sciences: Cf. WHITEHEAD (1929): "Metaphysics is an endeavour to frame a coherent logical, necessary system of general...every element of our experience can be interpreted". Cf. also THORPE 1978: 1 f. As to situation as the minimum cell of the universe, cf. KOCH 1971. Cf.,...

...alternatives, Whitehead opts for experience rather than reality: "Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of...every element of our experience can be interpreted" (PR 4, italics added). He repudiates the efforts of classical metaphysics on two fronts: its insistence...

...exhaust the space of intelligibility and meaningful inquiry. "Speculative philosophy," says Whitehead, "is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary...every element of our experience can be interpreted" (Process and Reality, part I, chap. 1, sec. 1). Reason must make that endeavor, even though foregoing...

...neutral with respect to such interpretations or possible ontological inferences. Whitehead stated that "speculative philosophy is the endeavor to frame a...every element of our experience can be interpreted." Similar criteria of logic and coherence are the final tests of our interpretive schema. As noted above...

...remember in this regard that, for Whitehead, metaphysics or speculative philosophy "is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of...every element of our experience can be interpreted" (PR 4). Now, in respect to this definition, 'coherence' means that the fundamental ideas, in terms...

...indicated above in the discipline of ethics generally. Whitehead defined metaphysics as the "endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of...every element of our experience can be interpreted." 5 It follows that any system of "general ideas" that lies at the heart of a fundamental component of...

...Whitehead and other exponents of this point of view. Notes 1. "Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element in our experience can be interpreted" (Alfred North Whitehead. Process and Realitv. p. 4). 2. Ibid.,...

...cosmos. Metaphysics is clearly the more general and risky enterprise. In Whitehead's terms, metaphysics "is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary...every element of our experience can be interpreted." 9 In short, it is the search for some kind of interrelated unitary view of our natural and cultural...

...meaning, according to Whitehead's Process and Reality (whose subtitle is An Essay in Cosmology): a scheme "of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted" (PR 3). Now, why not keep together the two meanings, astronomical and metaphysical? Let us say that...