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Alfred North Whitehead (19..)

Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesises. The many become one, and are increased by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness' is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition.
(Process and Reality, p. 26)

Alfred North Whitehead (1937+)

... Nedostatky mého publikovaného díla připadají pouze na můj vrub. Dovolím si jednu poznámku, jež se týká veškeré filosofické práce: – Filosofie je pokus vyjádřit nekonečnost vesmíru omezenými výrazy jazyka.
(Autobiografické poznámky, in: 3581, Matematika a dobro aj., Praha 1970, str. 18.)
(Anglicky: Essays ..., New York 1948.)

Alfred North Whitehead (1937+)

Filosofie je rozsáhlá, špatně vymezená disciplína, která k rozvoji lidstva přispívá mnohými službami.
(Dewey a jeho vliv, in: 3581, Matematika a dobro aj., Praha 1970, str. 45.)
(Anglicky: Essays ..., New York 1948.)

René Descartes (před 1650)

Omnem igitur collocabit industriam in distinguendis & examinandis illis tribus cognoscendi modis, vidensque veritatem proprie vel falsitatem non nisi in solo intellectu esse posse, sed tantummodo ab aliis doubus suam saepe originem ducere, ……
(pag. 66)
Zaměří tedy veškeré úsilí na rozlišení a prozkoumání těch tří způsobů poznání, a když uvidí, že pravda či nepravda může ve vlastní smyslu být pouze v samotném intelektu, zatím co v oněch dalších dvou má často jen svůj původ, …
(str. 67)
(7192, Regulae ad directionem ingenii – Pravidla pro vedení rozumu, Praha 2000, str. 66 a 67.)

Tomáš Akvinský (1224/5-1284)

Articulus quartus
Quarto quaeritur utrum sit tantum una veritas qua omnia sunt vera. Et videtur quod sic: Anselmus enim dicit in libro De veritate31 quod sicut tempus se habet ad temporalia ita veritas ad res veras; sed tempus ita se habet ad omnia temporalia quod est unum tempus tantum; ergo ita se habebit veritas ad omnia vera quod erit tantum una veritas.
(5845, Von der Wahrheit – De veritate, Quaest.I; F.Meiner, Hamburg 1986, S. 24.)