Anyone thinking wholes and parts are ontic categories is either a fraudester or a stupid philosopher (i.e. doubly fraudster). There is no such ontic categories. You construct new wholes to reveal the underlying fragments, you glue the fragments to uncover new wholes ad infinitum.
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The point is that we should avoid such prioritizations, because even if they were, they obstruct the progress of science i.e. how things hang together in the broadest possible sense.
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This is not just about the hypostatization of parts and wholes. Even the notion of reality is fundamentally unhelpful. This is why scientists hardly ever use such concepts.
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yes, but it's an evidentiated theory, and I don't think such evidence has been much contested
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