Whitehead’s concepts are articulated in such a way that no cause, even God as a cause, has the power to define how it will cause. Nothing has the power to determine how it will matter for others. Leibniz’s injunction, ‘dic cur hic’, say why, on this occasion, you have your situation mattering in this way, has become, for any and every actual entity, ‘decide why here’, decide how what must be taken into account will enter into your constitution and become the reasons why you will be what you will be. “How an actual entity becomes constitutes what that actual entity is” (PR 23).
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| — | Isabelle Stengers, “Thinking With Deleuze and Whitehead,” in Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections, ed. Keith Robinson (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). page 40. |
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