Hi David, > Sometimes your responses really puzzle me Brent. What you say above almost > makes it sound as though you just don't get the distinction Telmo is > pointing to. But based on what you have said at other times I think you do > get it, but because you also know that there's really no explicating that > distinction in a purely third person way, you sometimes want to say that > that's as far as explanation can legitimately go and the rest is just woo.
Thanks for saying. This puzzles me too. It's not just Brent, I know a lot of smart people that do exactly the same. > Cute but irrelevant. As has been said when we've discussed Telmo's point in > the past, the fact of the matter is that ontological reduction *just is* > ontological elimination. That's the whole point of the reductive project and > precisely therein lies its explanatory power. But somehow that same > ontological reduction doesn't entail *epistemological* elimination. There's > the rub. Precisely. For me, and for these reasons, emergentism in its current form is woo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
