传统西方哲学认为变化的现实世界中存在的不受时间束缚、永不变化的理念才是真正的实在,独立存在并保持不变。怀特海的过程—关系哲学却一反传统,认为世界在流变中生成,并存在于一定的关系之中,由此引发了对关联性思维的探讨。作为一种认知方式,关联性思维认为客观实在是一种动态相关性,而非传统哲学之静态二元论;客观实在并非是存在的,而是生成的,是 The concept of timelessness and immutableness that the traditional western philosophy considers in the real world of change is the real reality, exists independently and remains unchanged. Whitehead’s process - the philosophy of relations is an anti-tradition, that the world is generated in the changing, and exists in a certain relationship, which led to the discussion of relevance thinking. As a cognitive way, the associative thinking holds that objective reality is a kind of dynamic correlation rather than the static dualism of traditional philosophy. The objective reality is not the existence, but the generation