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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Source: Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)0
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. by : Alfred N. Whitehead