Hi Ian, I see the confusion now. I do not think that reductionism is something restricted to SOM. Reductionism is simply the reduction of all quality to static quality. It is the choice to break quality up a certain way. All static quality is the result of reductionism. Therefore I see reductionism as something unavoidable and important.
What do you think? On Thursday, 7 April 2011 at 6:26 PM, Ian Glendinning wrote: > Probably best if I use an example David (H). > > I like Steven Pinker's "The genes ate my homework" example. > > Reductionism is OK as part of the explanatory process, the process of > understanding and arriving at explanations. > The history of dog evolution and dog genes definitely have something > to do with why dogs chew things they get hold of, and the chemistry of > their DNA is behind that somewhere. The "full" SOMist / reductionist > explanation invloves a great stack of things right back to quarks and > strings and fundamental physical laws in this world. > > But it's unlikely our Pirsigian English teacher would accept the > "genes" excuse as an "explanation" for why you're not handing in your > assignment. Am I right ? He'd probably expect your explanation to > involve some socio-intellectual patterns. > > PS Nice move with the Hamish Essentialism thread. > I wish I had time to watch ;-) > > Ian > What's so funny 'bout ... > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:54 PM, David Harding <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > Reductionism is OK as part of the > > > explanatory process, but not as the answer, the explanation itself - > > > eg to a question of definition for example. > > > > Can you please rephrase this concluding sentence? I am having trouble > > understanding exactly what you mean. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
