u/OfLittleRelevance

Can I be both a process realist and a structural realist?

I don't want to have to choose one of assign priority between them, and find myself of mind a process realism is best steelmanned as equally being structural realism and vice versa.

Um... can I do that? I would like to hold that reality is fundamentally multi-aspectual, and can't be reduced down to a single concept like "structure" or "regularity" or "substance."

(Definitely don't want to import a full Whiteheadian metaphysics though, especially not the panexperientialism. I... suppose whether that's an option is it's own question.)

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u/OfLittleRelevance — 4 days ago

Can I be both a process realist and a structural realist?

I don't want to have to choose one of assign priority between them, and find myself of mind a process realism is best steelmanned as equally being structural realism and vice versa.

Um... can I do that? I would like to hold that reality is fundamentally multi-aspectual, and can't be reduced down to a single concept like "structure" or "regularity" or "substance."

(Definitely don't want to import a full Whiteheadian metaphysics though, especially not the panexperientialism.)

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u/OfLittleRelevance — 5 days ago