From: Mitchell Porter (mitch@thehub.com.au)
Date: Tue Dec 17 1996 - 16:20:44 MST
> "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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