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Process and Reality
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<p><i>Process and Reality</i> is a book by <a href="/facts/Alfred_North_Whitehead/7KuylmP3">Alfred North Whitehead</a>, in which the author propounds a philosophy of organism, also called <a href="/facts/Process_philosophy/5wDEIev2">process philosophy</a>. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the <a href="/facts/Gifford_Lectures/IX11SXMy">Gifford Lectures</a> he gave in 1927–28. </p> <blockquote><p>We diverge from <a href="/facts/Descartes/ohqj6DMf">Descartes</a> by holding that what he has described as primary <i>attributes</i> of physical bodies, are really the forms of internal relationships <i>between</i> actual occasions. Such a change of thought is the shift from <a href="/facts/Materialism/VKAovnPt">materialism</a> to <a href="/facts/Organic_Realism/5wDEIev2">Organic Realism</a>, as a basic idea of physical science.</p>— <i>Process and Reality</i>, 1929, p. 471.</blockquote>