I may have mentioned this morning that this is probably important: http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/13465/print
Carl Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think of our discussions as cumulative, so here is somethat that was > discussed today that I would like to nail down. We isolated the > concept of "misplaced concreteness (Whitehead) which is a version of a > "category error" (Ryle) or the violation of a language game > (Wittegenstein) or the error of Hypostization. (spelling?)(source?) or > Reification (ditto). > > We will ALWAYS disagree when somebody says that to say that hunger is > IN the stomach is an example of misplaced concreteness, but we will > never again be confused or ignorant about what is being asserted: that > hunger is a complex set of relations that may involve the stomach > essentially, but also involves many other things. Even our use of > words like probabililty (I probably will go down town today) or > (there is a 50 percent chance it will rain today) or causality (guns > dont cause crime; people do) lays us open to accusations of misplaced > concreteness. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
