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"The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact."

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About Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher known for co-authoring Principia Mathematica and for developing process philosophy. He later taught at Harvard University. He died in 1947.

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