Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality

By contrast, on the non-reductionist view, the collapse of the towers was a loss to reality, ontologically speaking. Such a reductionist would be saying, in effect, that what gets insured are particles-in-certain-arrangements.\ng., artifacts, artworks, economic items (certificates of deposit, credit...

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Published inThe Monist Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 313 - 333
Main Author Baker, Lynne Rudder
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford The Hegeler Institute 01.07.2006
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Astronomical objects
Certificates of deposit
Credit cards
Eliminative materialism
Evaluation
Existence
Function words
Habeas corpus
Linguistic ambiguity
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Molecules
Motivation
Ontology
Philosophical object
Philosophy of mind
Reality
Reductionism
Terrorism
United States
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Summary:By contrast, on the non-reductionist view, the collapse of the towers was a loss to reality, ontologically speaking. Such a reductionist would be saying, in effect, that what gets insured are particles-in-certain-arrangements.\ng., artifacts, artworks, economic items (certificates of deposit, credit cards), consumer goods, documents. It also excludes such varied properties as being philanthropic, being in debt, being employed, being drunk, being conscientious, having a banking system, breaking a treaty, suspending habeas corpus, and on and on.
ISSN:0026-9662
2153-3601
DOI:10.5840/monist200689314