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Being a reductionist

“Being a reductionist is a bit like being a logical positivist or a member of the Old Left – an aura of doctrinaire naivetΓ© hangs over him.”

– Jaegwon Kim (1989, p. 32). The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 63(3), 31-47

 

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