...That the potentiality for being an element in a real concrescence of many entities into one actuality is the one general metaphysical character attaching...it belongs to the nature of a 'being' that it is a potentiality for every 'becoming.' This is the 'principle of relativity.'103 The observed efficacy...

...character attaching to all entities, actual and non-actual [ie, to actual entities and eternal objects]. Every item in its universe is involved in each concrescence....'becoming.' This is the 'principle of relativity.' It asserts that the notion of an 'entity' means 'an element contributory to the process of becoming.'...

..."that the potentiality for being an element in a real concrescence of many entities into one actuality, is the one general metaphysical character attaching to all entities, actual and nonactual" [PR 33]. This means that each actual occasion, once it has become and reached its satisfaction, loses...

...this understanding of perspective can enable us to understand Whitehead's principle of relativity: "It belongs to the nature of a 'being' that it is a potential for every 'becoming' " (PR 22). To be is to be a constituent of some becoming and to be a potential for other becomings....

...That the potentiality for being an element in a real concrescence of many entities into one actuality, is the one general metaphysical character attaching...'becoming'. This is the 'principle of relativity'. (PR 33) Whitehead's own comments on the significance of this category will help to further our understanding...

..."the potentiality for being an element in a real concrescence of many entities into one actuality, is the one general metaphysical character attaching...in its universe is involved in each concrescence" (PR 33). If we understand this approach as constituting a strategy for explaining why the universe...

...needs to be acknowledged as well that he denies self-sufficient perfection to beings as well. Rather, it belongs to the nature of a 'being' that it is a potential for every 'becoming' (PR 22). As Christian notes, Every possibility is a possibility of actualization. Every actuality is...

...relations with other things. The most general statement of this fact is the principle of relativity: "It belongs to the nature of a 'being' that it is a potential for every 'becoming' " (category of explanation iv). This principle must be taken together with the principle of process:...

...Earlier in Process and Reality (33/22) he defines this principle as his Fourth Category of Explanation: "it belongs to the nature of a 'being' that it is...'becoming.' This is the 'principle of relativity.'" As Whitehead himself observes, the claims entailed in the Principle of Relativity are identical to...

...(being) pueden pasar todas las cosas; todo ser es un potencial para todo advenimiento o acaecimiento, «it belongs to the nature of a "being" that it is a potential for every "becoming"»(p. 33); lo cual equivale, como se explicó en su lugar correspondiente, a poder hacer...