The Three Conventions (Classic Reprint): Metaphysical Dialogues, Principia Metaphysica, and Commentary: Metaphysical Dialogues, Principia Metaphysica, and Commentary (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Three Conventions

So long as we conceive the world to be only in the process of Becoming, so long will it be inevitable that all our world-conceptions be in constant ?ux. A world that never is but always to be cannot remain stable enough for a single moment to allow even of description, let alone of definition and interpretation; and a statement approximately true. Today may be anything but true tomorrow. Metaphysics and Phi 1050phy, in these circumstances, are not so much as even guesses at truth, since the truth about a process of Becoming, if it be no more than that, can only be known when the process is complete, that is to say, when all life has ceased. They are, at best, a kind of meteorological prediction, but in a field vastly more complex than that of weather and, in consequence, at a vastly greater disadvantage than common mete orology. If, as is too. Generally assumed by modern science, what we call life is only Becoming, there is small wonder that Metaphysics and Philosophy proper should be regarded as fancies unworthy of serious attention.

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