On 1/13/2014 1:29 PM, LizR wrote:
On 14 January 2014 10:17, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 1/13/2014 10:54 AM, L.W. Sterritt wrote:
Isn’t this just the reification fallacy? From Wikipedia: Reification
(also known
as concretism, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of
ambiguity,
when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated
as if it
were a concrete, real event, or physical entity. In other words, it is the
error of
treating as a concrete thing something which is not concrete, but merely an
idea.
Like reifying arithmetic.
I do indeed!
:-)
Fallaciously? ;-)
In your model of the world, with chairs and tables and planets and people, where is the
number 2?
Brent
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