From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 00:58:56 MST
Edd111@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/20/00 2:28:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> clintodell@visto.com writes:
>
> << Some people think they insult themselves if they accept the
> truth. We indeed are nothing more than a complex arrangement
> of physical properties and their effects.>>
>
> To 'The Atheist from Denver'
>
> Clint, what you espouse or may not be true...
Reductionism, Ed, always involves a peculiar conflation of the
"is" of predication and the "is" of identity.
All reductionism, in one way or another, asserts:
"Something is nothing but something else."
Bob
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