But Shannon, process doesn’t underlie all nouns.
Actually, I would argue that it does.
Example: there is a white ceramic bowl sitting on my countertop. Contrary to our normal way of seeing, this bowl is not a static thing.
Once, it was minerals within layers of the earth. Today it is a white ceramic bowl full of gazpacho. Later it might be gravel in my driveway. Eventually dust. Maybe someday it will form particulate in a cloud and fall as drops of rain.
Or if that’s not your thing, we can zoom in to the atomic level: the bowl is a patterning of atoms, constantly in motion, held together by electromagnetic forces.
Perhaps it’s not that the bowl has process underlying it. Perhaps the bowl is process. All the way down.
As Leigh Brasington says: “Nouns are just verbs moving very slowly.”
Your thoughts?
