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Whitehead - Process and Reality

EDITORS' PREFACE
Process and Reality, Whitehead's magnum opus, is one of the major
philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of sec
ondary literature has developed around it. Yet surely no significant philo
sophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorable
a condition as has this one, with its many hundreds of errors and with
over three hundred discrepancies between the American (Macmillan) and
the English (Cambridge) editions, which appeared in different formats
with divergent paginations. The work itself is highly technical and far from
easy to understand, and in many passages the errors in those editions were
such as to compound the difficulties. The need for a corrected edition has
been keenly felt for many decades.
The principles to be used in deciding what sorts of corrections ought to
be introduoed into a new edition of Process and Reality are not, however,
immediately obvious. Settling upon these principles requires that one

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