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It's not universally accepted that it is fallacy. And for whatever it misses, reductionism is a hell of a tool that has been incredibly useful in understanding
by wnoise 8y ago
It's not universally accepted that it is fallacy. And for whatever it misses, reductionism is a hell of a tool that has been incredibly useful in understanding the world.
Of course, so are chemistry and biology, so blithely dismissed in the parent comment.
- naasking 8y ago> Of course, so are chemistry and biology, so blithely dismissed in the parent comment. I didn't dismiss them at all, I explicitly said they are epistemically useful, but that doesn't entail we should accept them into our core ontology.