Note from Jay McDaniel: The process tradition is at its best when it resists sectarianism and avoids even the faintest hint of certainty about ultimate metaphysical principles. In this spirit, it welcomes critique—not with reactionary defensiveness, but with deep listening and with the recognition that the critique may, after all, be right. There is no need for combativeness. As Whitehead cautions: “There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.” (Process and Reality, Preface, xiv.)