it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things should not prevent people from realizing that "material substances" or "essences" are a convenient generalized description of a continuum limitations of language it is not philosophically or ontologically sound limitations of language limitations of language each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago
Why did Whitehead think people continued to subscribe to materialistic thinking? What did Whitehead believe regarding factors that limit people's understanding of his concepts? What did Whitehead believe was one of the biggest reasons materialistic thinking endured? What did Whitehead state about the belief that a person is exactly the same from moment to moment? Why couldn't each moment of each person's life be given a different proper name? What did Whitehead believe was a culprit in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking? Whitehead's main philosophy on humans changing is what?
Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things, rather than constantly keeping in mind that each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago. Yet the limitations of everyday living and everyday speech should not prevent people from realizing that "material substances" or "essences" are a convenient generalized description of a continuum of particular, concrete processes. No one questions that a ten-year-old person is quite different by the time he or she turns thirty years old, and in many ways is not the same person at all; Whitehead points out that it is not philosophically or ontologically sound to think that a person is the same from one second to the next.
question: Why did Whitehead think people continued to subscribe to materialistic thinking?, answer: it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things | question: What did Whitehead believe regarding factors that limit people's understanding of his concepts?, answer: should not prevent people from realizing that "material substances" or "essences" are a convenient generalized description of a continuum | question: What did Whitehead believe was one of the biggest reasons materialistic thinking endured?, answer: limitations of language | question: What did Whitehead state about the belief that a person is exactly the same from moment to moment?, answer: it is not philosophically or ontologically sound | question: Why couldn't each moment of each person's life be given a different proper name?, answer: limitations of language | question: What did Whitehead believe was a culprit in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking?, answer: limitations of language | question: Whitehead's main philosophy on humans changing is what?, answer: each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago