[MD] Through a glass darkly

[MarshaV]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:56 PM, david buchanan wrote:

> dmb:
> ... Common sense is made up of those static patterns that work so unproblematically that they larger go unexamined. But when common sense concepts are taken up by more abstract intellectual pursuits like science and philosophy all sorts of problems seem to emerge.
> 
> Chief among these problems is reification, the error of treating an abstract concept as if it were an actual entity. Plato's forms are the classic example and that's why they call it Platonism...


Marsha:
This seems right...   
 
 
 
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