Crosby, Donald A.  “Whitehead on the Metaphysical Employment of Language.”  Process Studies 1, no.1 (Spring 1971): 38-54.

Abstract

Six criteria guiding Whitehead in his derivation of a technical metaphysical vocabulary are discussed.  Then three implications of these criteria for understanding Whitehead are brought out: (1) they shed light on his dictum that "philosophy is akin to poetry"; (2) they help to specify the sort of interpretive spirit with which he apparently hoped his work would be approached; (3) they render questionable the claim that discriminations expressed in one philosophical idiom are real ones only if they admit of translation into any philosophical idiom.  [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]