This little quiz is in honor of my fellow blogger, Jeff Bell.
"Anything which possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected by another even for a moment, however trifling the cause and however slight and momentary the effect, has real existence; and I hold that the definition of being is simply power."
Guess the author? Is it Spinoza? Whitehead? Deleuze?
Plato! Sophist, 247de, quoted by Whitehead in Jowett's translation.
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