[lit-ideas] red grice
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:18:14 +0200
I am not intaking oxygen waiting for the gricean chemical approach
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:32 AM, cblists@xxxxxxxx <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 03 Oct 2014, at 23:57, Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm with Nagel. Materialist physical reductionism is almost certainly
> > wrong: wrong as science; wrong as philosophy. It is our current error, a
> > hidden religion inside science, especially as it is presented to
> > laypeople.
>
> I'm in your and Nagel's camp - perhaps at the fanatical forefront. (Is
> that a mixture of metaphors?) 'Fanatical'- in that I would leave out the
> 'almost'.
>
> Physical reductionism is wrong. By that I mean (i.e., would argue), when
> we restrict ourselves to accounts of the world in which 'materialist
> physical reductionism' is 'the only language game in town' (now that's MORE
> than just a mixture of metaphors), we impose an unacceptable (at least in
> my fanatical opinion) restriction on our 'form of life'.
>
> (My - no doubt heretically twisted - Wittgensteinian roots are showing, I
> know.)
>
> In my opinion, the error arises because people forget that 'science' is
> and will ever remain 'natural philosophy'; when that is forgotten that your
> 'hidden religion' arises.
>
> Chris Bruce,
> still celebrating
> Enlightenment's birthday,
> in Kiel, Germany
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