Concept
Process
Overview
A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.
Things called a process include:
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Lightning strikes and rives a tree or rock, and the resulting fragments take up and continue the process of interaction, and so on and on. But when phases of the process are represented by signs, a new medium is interposed. As symbols are related to one another, the important relations of a course of events are recorded and are preserved as meanings.
John Dewey, The public and its problems
States what Process is; names Process twice.
They likewise constitute a temporal flow, even though there be no sense of duration or of change as such. The different moments of these experiences are not mechanically juxtaposed, but blend together in much the same way as when the process is experienced as a process. In principle we have the same transition, the same becoming, the same growth from less to more, the same activity of continuous reconstruction.
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Process is; names Process several times.
By the "end" and the "means" a process is appropriated (--a process is _invented_ which may be grasped), but by "_concepts_" one appropriates the "things" which constitute the process. _Consciousness_ begins outwardly as co-ordination and knowledge of impressions,--at first it is at the point which is remotest from the biological centre of the individual; but it is a process which deepens and which tends to become…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Names Process several times; states what Process is.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Idealism.