Imitating Aristotle leads us to conclude that reality is in the middle. And we should imitate Aristotle. Down with reductionism and its opposite!
Tag: Reductionism
Idea: Reductionism is incompatible with one form of generalism, but not the other. Reductionists believe reality is at the bottom. You don’t really exist. You are just your parts,…
Idea: There are good reasons for believing that the more original a thing is, the realer it is. Let’s call reality-is-at-the-top-ism in general, “generalism.” The…
There’s a mix of reasons for believing that larger, more inclusive things are realer. Some of them seem perfectly reasonable. Others are questionable.
Idea: There are four good reasons for being a reductionist. At the cellular, molecular, or quantum level, you don’t exist. But it’s those lower levels of reality…