section_path: Views/Modern philosophy/Whitehead (1861–1947)
section_name: Whitehead (1861–1947)
paragraph_text: Whitehead (1861–1947)
  
  Alfred North Whitehead, a British mathematician who became an American philosopher, said: "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil".
  
  The logical progression or connection of this line of thought is to conclude that truth can lie, since half-truths are deceptive and may lead to a false conclusion.