Update 2025-decade-bifurcation.md

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 date: 2025-11-27
 location: "Leuphana University Lüneburg"
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-In his _Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge_ (1919), an incomplete and fragmented investigation written amid the sound of guns and during the air raids over London, Alfred North Whitehead addressed the “incurable poverty of language” in speaking about the difference between what is “perceived” and what is “_really_ perceived.” Receiving the first Tarner Lectureship the following year, Whitehead was given the opportunity to present an alternative exposition of his _Enquiry_ to a broader audience in a series of lectures that would become _The Concept of Nature_ (1920). It is here that Whitehead begins to speak of the fallacy of bifurcation, a term that would immediately be picked up by his contemporaries and become a crucial concept associated with Whithead’s oeuvre to this day.
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+[Full Programme Here](https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/portale/disruptive-contition/bifurcation_operation/bifurcation-operation-programme.pdf)
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+In his _Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge_ (1919), an incomplete and fragmented investigation written amid the sound of guns and during the air raids over London, Alfred North Whitehead addressed the “incurable poverty of language” in speaking about the difference between what is “perceived” and what is “_really_ perceived.” Receiving the first Tarner Lectureship the following year, Whitehead was given the opportunity to present an alternative exposition of his _Enquiry_ to a broader audience in a series of lectures that would become _The Concept of Nature_ (1920). It is here that Whitehead begins to speak of the fallacy of bifurcation, a term that would immediately be picked up by his contemporaries and become a crucial concept associated with Whithead’s oeuvre to this day. 
 
 Given its broad reception, it is perhaps surprising that the term largely disappears as he develops his philosophical thought throughout the 1920s. Even in _Science in the Modern World_ (1925), which covers similar ground and clearly addresses the same problematic, the term does not appear. Instead, he presents the issue as the Fallacy of Simple Location, which is itself discussed as part of the much broader Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness. In his mature philosophical work, _Process and Reality_ (1929), “bifurcation” is briefly referenced in a short section towards the end of the book, but is otherwise transformed into a different conceptual vocabulary.