BRACERS Record Detail for 131281
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An excerpt of a letter from BR to Ushenko, found in Ushenko's book, Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, page 611.
BR tells Ushenko that it was Whitehead who led him, in 1914, "to abandon Newtonian absolute time and space and also particles of matter, substituting systems of events." The philosophy of events "fitted well with Einstein" and "confirmed me in the views I got from Whitehead, but Einstein was not their source for me, and I think not for Whitehead."
BR TO ANDREW PAUL USHENKO, 12 DEC. 1946
BRACERS 131281. PD. B&R H37
Proofread by K. Blackwell
“[It was Whitehead who led Russell, around 1914,] to abandon Newtonian absolute time and space and also particles of matter, substituting systems of events”; the philosophy of events “fitted in well with Einstein” and “confirmed me in the views I got from Whitehead, but Einstein was not their source for me, and I think not for Whitehead.”1
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“[It was Whitehead who led Russell, around 1914,] … Whitehead.” This passage from a letter whose location is unknown is on p. 611 of Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, ed. P.A. Schilpp (Evanston, IL: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949; B&R H37).