question: What did Whitehead believe were essentially the only things that truly exist ?
answer: discrete `` occasions of experience '' that overlap one another in time and space , and jointly make up the enduring person or thing
turker_answer: Whitehead believed that discrete `` occasions of experience '' that overlap one another in time and space , and jointly make up the enduring person or thing .
rule-based: Did Whitehead believe essentially the only things that truly exist were discrete `` occasions of experience '' that overlap one another in time and space , and jointly make up the enduring person or thing .