Science and the Modern World¶
Whitehead, A. N. (1925). Science and the Modern World.
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- Fallacy Of Misplaced Concreteness
- The same structural critique underlies ecological-fallacy warnings, mereological-confusion arguments, and use-mention distinctions in logic — misplaced concreteness is the general parent.
This sourceCoins the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness" — mistaking an abstraction for a concrete reality — and identifies it as a recurrent error of reasoning about the world through simplified constructs.
- The same structural critique underlies ecological-fallacy warnings, mereological-confusion arguments, and use-mention distinctions in logic — misplaced concreteness is the general parent.
- Reification
- The prime makes visible a single epistemological failure that many separate fields have noticed under separate names: commodity fetishism, map-territory confusion, hypostatization, concretism, misplaced concreteness, theme reification, validity-without-construct.
This sourceNames the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness" — mistaking an abstraction for the concrete reality it summarizes.
- The prime makes visible a single epistemological failure that many separate fields have noticed under separate names: commodity fetishism, map-territory confusion, hypostatization, concretism, misplaced concreteness, theme reification, validity-without-construct.
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