SUO: *Date 20 Mar 2002 -- Non Causa Pro Causa
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just show us a new idea they say, in the world of /dev/null/a -- hey!
just play us a new idea they say, the players of /dev/null/a -- hey!
just try and unfix our fixe idée, the pipers of /dev/null/a -- hey!
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| I shall in subsequent lectures endeavour to show that this spatialisation
| is the expression of more concrete facts under the guise of very abstract
| logical constructions. 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". This fallacy is the
| occasion of great confusion in philosophy. It is not necessary for the
| intellect to fall into the trap, though in this example there has been
| a very general tendency to do so.
|
| ANW, SMW, pages 50-51.
|
| Alfred North Whitehead,
|'Science and the Modern World',
| Lowell Lectures 1925,
| Free Press, New York, NY, 1967.
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