By Schubert Ogden
According to Whitehead, "[t]he useful function of philosophy is to promote the most general systematization of civilized thought" (PRc: 17 [25 f.]). "After the initial basis of a rational life, with a civilized language, has been laid, all productive thought has proceeded either by the poetic insight of artists, or by the imaginative elaboration of schemes of thought capable of utilization as logical premises. In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious" (9 [14]).
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