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en-wikipedia-org-379		Process philosophy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6751	783	53	Philosophers who appeal to process rather than substance include Heraclitus, Karl Marx,[4] Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Nail, Alfred Korzybski, R. In his book Science and the Modern World (1925), Whitehead noted that the human intuitions and experiences of science, aesthetics, ethics, and religion influence the worldview of a community, but that in the last several centuries science dominates Western culture. For Whitehead's ontology of processes as defining the world, the actual entities exist as the only fundamental elements of reality. This is in perfect agreement with the viewpoint of the Einstein theory of special relativity and with the Minkowski geometry of spacetime.[24] It is clear that Whitehead respected these ideas, as may be seen for example in his 1919 book An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge[25] as well as in Process and Reality. Commentary on Whitehead and on process philosophy[edit] Regarding Whitehead's use of the term "occasions" in reference to "God", it is explained in Process and Reality Corrected Edition that 	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-379.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-379.txt