The fixed scientific cosmology presupposes 'irreducible brute matter'—unconscious, valueless, purposeless stuff spread through space—following a fixed routine imposed by external relations (relations that do not spring from the essential nature of things).

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Whitehead Lecturer

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the fixed scientific cosmology which presupposes the ultimate fact of an irreducible root matter...unconscious value purposeless...following a fixed routine imposed by external relations which don't spring from the nature of its being

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A History of Philosophy | 63 Whitehead's "Science and Modern World"wheatoncollege
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