whitehead
Speech parts
1. whitehead - Noun
2. Whitehead - Proper noun
Meaning
The blue-winged snow goose.
The surf scoter.
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Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase-"climate of opinion." The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command assent or not depends less upon the logic that conveys them than upon the climate of opinion in which they are sustained.
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness."
[Alexander North] Whitehead is supposed to have said of [Bertrand] Russell: "Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.”.
As Whitehead has said "If it were easy, the book ought to be burned; for it is cannot be educational. In education, as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place."
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.
[A]lthough my attempted reconstruction of the view of Whitehead and Russell overcomes, I think, many of the difficulties, it is impossible to regard it as altogether satisfactory.