Such a conception is paradoxical if you will persist in thinking of the actual world as a collection of passive actual substances with their private … - Alfred North Whitehead

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Such a conception is paradoxical if you will persist in thinking of the actual world as a collection of passive actual substances with their private characters or qualities. In that case, it must be nonsense to ask, how one such substance can form a component in the make-up of another such substance.