From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Dec 20 1996 - 10:59:16 MST
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Mitchell Porter wrote:
> > "Downward causality"
> > is empty eristic; the causality of rhetoric and psychology and culture
> > is exactly the same kind of physical causality we know in other kinds
> > of phenomena in the world.
>
> "Eristic" = "wrangling, hair-splitting"? (That's a guess from the
> dictionary definition at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mweb, which lists the
> word as an adjective only.)
>
> -mitch
> http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch
>
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