An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING
THE PRINCIPLES OF
NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
BY
A. N. WHITEHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of
Applied Mathematics in the Imperial College
of Science and Technology
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1919
Contents
PART I. THE TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE
Chapter II: The Foundations of Dynamical Physics
Chapter III: Scientific Relativity
Chapter IV: Congruence
PART II. THE DATA OF SCIENCE
Chapter V: The Natural Elements
Chapter VI: Events
Chapter VII: Objects
PART III. THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION
Chapter VIII: Principles of the Method of Extensive Abstraction
Chapter IX: Durations, Moments and Time-Systems
Chapter X: Finite Abstractive Elements
Chapter XI: Points and Straight Lines
Chapter XII: Normality and Congruence
Chapter XIII: Motion
PART IV. THE THEORY OF OBJECTS
Chapter XIV: The Location of Objects
Chapter XV: Material Objects