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Re:So You Want to Learn Physics (2016) by wnoise on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:09AM (#18380015)
It's not universally accepted that it is fallacy. And for whatever it misses, reductionism is a hell of a tool that has been incredibly useful in understanding the world.

Of course, so are chemistry and biology, so blithely dismissed in the parent comment.

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Re:So You Want to Learn Physics (2016) by naasking on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:45AM (#18382238)
> Of course, so are chemistry and biology, so blithely dismissed in the parent comment.

I didn't dismiss them at all, I explicitly said they are epistemically useful, but that doesn't entail we should accept them into our core ontology.

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