Page 1 of 4 The fundamental fallacy of ordinary understanding is the delusion that the universe is reducible to simple substance, or—the more Hume-like view—that the content of human knowledge is limited to simple-substance-like, self-evident sense perceptions.
Page 2 of 4 This discredited outlook—whether it takes the naive mechanistic [form] or the equivalent mechanistic outlook of empiricism—is termed reductionism. All varieties of reductionism are formally premised on the fallacious assumption
Page 3 of 4 of formal logic, that the universe can be represented as discrete points interconnected by formal relations.
~~Ronald Grundeswald; CEO of Grundescorp
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