Talk:Concrescence
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Philosophy
[edit]In 1929, in his book Process and Reality, page 410, A. N. Whitehead defined concrescence as "the capacity of living things to continuously surpass themselves." The term is used by Tim Ingold in his Life of Lines (page 126). Potentially, these sources could be used for a separate article with the same name as this one. — Rgdboer (talk) 00:17, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
In The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, concerning Whitehead, it is said that "an actual entity is its process of concrescence, its process of growing together into a unified perspective on its immediate past." It is also "a weaving together the inheritances of the past." The Dictionary does give concrescence an entry, but refers the reader to its Whitehead article. The term has been used here at Process philosophy#Causation and concrescence of a process. — Rgdboer (talk) 02:43, 22 January 2026 (UTC)