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We may directly answer the question of the day as follows:

The real, as distinct from the merely verbal, issues between Whitehead and "the great tradition of philosophical speculation" either are or are entailed by two basic and interrelated issues. (Indeed, these issues are so closely related that one might well say, instead, "one basic twofold issue.") On the one hand, and most basically, there is the epistemological issue whether sense perception – or perception—or perception in the mode of presentational immediacy – is immediacy—is or is not fundamental. On the other hand, and deriving from the first issue, there is the metaphysical (or ontological) issue whether an actual entity is or is not a substance characterized by both essential and accidental properties and enduring through time as numerically one.

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