activity over substance
process over product
change over persistence
novelty over continuity
A process philosopher, then, is someone for whom such processes are metaphysically pivotal, someone for whom temporality, activity, and change of alteration, striving, passage, and novelty emergence are the ontologically, or at least hermeneutically, most salient dimension of the real.
– Nicholas Rescher, Process Metaphysics, An Introduction to Process Philosophy