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Although Whitehead himself, in Process and Reality, appears to maintain a correspondence theory of truth, at various points he also appears to hold that truth is a function of the process under consideration. This suggestion is considered and developed beyond Whitehead’s few examples. It is suggested that such a theory could be extended further and that it would be consistent with Whitehead’s natural philosophical tendency.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Ian Winchester

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Winchester, I. Truth as Process. Interchange 36, 209–214 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-005-2357-8

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