Science and the Modern World¶
Whitehead, A. N. (1925). Science and the Modern World. Cambridge University Press.
Cited by¶
5 citations across 5 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- 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.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
Whitehead coins the named fallacy and frames it as an error of mistaking abstraction for concrete reality; the breadth-across-domains point is not made there.
“There is an error; but it is merely the accidental error of mistaking the abstract for the concrete. It is an example of what I will call the ‘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.
- 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.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
Whitehead names and defines the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness, one of the listed terms, but does not link it to commodity fetishism or the other terms as a single failure.
“mistaking the abstract for the concrete. It is an example of what I will call the ‘Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness.’”
- 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.
Mechanisms¶
- Projected-Entailment, Non-Mapping, and Causal-Overreach Audit
- … entailments it manages to enumerate, and the dangerous one is often the inference nobody wrote down; worse, a confident grade plus repetition can quietly harden a "generative hypothesis" into a "supported" fact — the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, mistaking a useful abstraction for the concrete thing it models.
This sourceNames the fallacy of misplaced concreteness as mistaking an abstraction for the concrete reality from which it abstracts.
- … entailments it manages to enumerate, and the dangerous one is often the inference nobody wrote down; worse, a confident grade plus repetition can quietly harden a "generative hypothesis" into a "supported" fact — the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, mistaking a useful abstraction for the concrete thing it models.
- Transformation Roadmap
- Unity Test Specification Sheet
- Its characteristic failure is reification
This sourceDefines reification through the fallacy of mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality.
- Its characteristic failure is reification
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 2 of 5 citations: 2 supported in part. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Links previously used in the corpus¶
Before the registry existed this work was also linked 4 other ways.
- https://archive.org/details/scienceandthemod033129mbp ×1
- https://archive.org/details/sciencemodernwor00whit ×1
- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/253801 ×1
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/68611/68611-h/68611-h.htm ×1
Registry ID ref:3b962c6b3d7f · see in the full table