The doctrine of internal relations is the philosophical doctrine that all relations are internal to their bearers, in the sense that they are essential to them and the bearers would not be what they are without them. It was a term used in British philosophy around in the early 1900s.G E Moore, 'External and Internal Relations', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society ( 1919-20 ); reprinted in G E Moore, Philosophical Studies (1922)Russell ‘Pragmatism’ (1909) and ‘The Monistic Theory of Truth’ ( 1906-07 ) "This material is in itself the ultimate substance. Evolution, on the materialistic theory, is reduced to the role of being another word for the description of the changes of the external relations between portions of matter. There is nothing to evolve, because one set of external relations is as good as any other set of external relations. There can merely be change, purposeless and unprogressive. But the whole point of the modem doctrine is the evolution of the complex organisms from antecedent states of less complex organisms. The doctrine thus cries aloud for a conception of organism as fundamental for nature. It also requires an underlying activity -- a substantial activity -- expressing itself in achievements of organism."Whitehead, 1925, pages , 151-152. In the 1925 (first) edition of Whitehead's " Science and the Modern World " the cited paragraph is on p. 135.
The doctrine of internal relations is the philosophical doctrine that all relations are internal to their bearers, in the sense that they are essential to them and the bearers would not be what they are without them. It was a term used in British philosophy around in the early 1900s.G E Moore, 'External and Internal Relations', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society ( 1919–20 ); reprinted in G E Moore, Philosophical Studies (1922)Russell ‘Pragmatism’ (1909) and ‘The Monistic Theory of Truth’ ( 1906–07 ) "This material is in itself the ultimate substance. Evolution, on the materialistic theory, is reduced to the role of being another word for the description of the changes of the external relations between portions of matter. There is nothing to evolve, because one set of external relations is as good as any other set of external relations. There can merely be change, purposeless and unprogressive. But the whole point of the modem doctrine is the evolution of the complex organisms from antecedent states of less complex organisms. The doctrine thus cries aloud for a conception of organism as fundamental for nature. It also requires an underlying activity -- a substantial activity -- expressing itself in achievements of organism."Whitehead, 1925, pages 151–152. In the 1925 (first) edition of Whitehead's Science and the Modern World the cited paragraph is on p. 135.
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