Re: [xtm-wg] The Nature of Things...

[Jack Park <jackpark@verticalnet.com>]

Hi Matthew, comments below...
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From: West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK <matthew.r.west@is.shell.com>
To: <xtm-wg@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: RE: [xtm-wg] The Nature of Things...


> Dear Jack,
>
> I do not mean the "framework" I present (mostly other peoples ideas
> collected into one place) to be reductionist. I agree fully with you that
> the way things are built up is of critical importance. Hence the section
> which is about "organisational levels". However, you need to identify the
> parts before you can try to explain how they fit together.
>
And I did not mean to imply that I was anti-reductionist but rather that
reductionist thinking can carry us only so far.  I agree fully with you that
one needs to identify the parts before trying to explain them.  I am just,
perhaps, amplifying your "organizational levels" section by pointing out
Rosen's work.

> I am also aware of other viewpoints, Armstrong's in particular. However,
in
> general I have found that the approach I have gravitated to is able to
> explain other viewponts, rather as general relativity can explain the
> Newtonian view of gravity.
>
> I am always open to challenge on specific points. I might learn something.
>
I like to think that my point was not offered as a challenge to anything you
wrote, rather to illuminate some scholarship that I do not think gets
exposed sufficiently.
Cheers
Jack


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