And yet things like God, transubstantiation, souls, the mind, goodness inherent in actions, purpose, a thing having a nature, telos, are all rejected in part on reductionist grounds.
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And the important thing to note here is that it is through the chair's objective, real-world, not embedded in the mind, functional relationship with humans that gives chairness its meaning, not some fact about the underlying collection of atoms or...
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... merely some facts about the psychology of humans
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Right, so while the concept of "chairness" may exist in a mind, it is transferable to another mind in the form of sub-concepts at a lower level of abstraction...
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Yes. I am merely claiming that “chairness” does not exist in the chair.
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