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Professor of physiology Benjamin Libet cautions that there are some things that are still better explained by some form of dualism that cannot be explained reductionistically.
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Neither those who approach the mind reductionistically, nor those who assume that new properties require new substances, will be able to do justice to the need for different sorts of description on different levels.
ID & Ego James F. McGrath 2009
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Neither those who approach the mind reductionistically, nor those who assume that new properties require new substances, will be able to do justice to the need for different sorts of description on different levels.
Archive 2009-07-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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We describe time as a dimension because we reductionistically describe it as linear, yet is it?
Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory Sean 2008
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If you reductionistically measured only the plane at which these two fields meet, those phenomena would only appear as spots on the plane.
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Religion as I perceive and practice it is more of a poetic, artistic work of the imagination, attempting to integrate as many aspects of our experience as possible in a way that allows us to think about the unthinkable and relate to the unknowables, in a way that allows us to perceive the world not merely reductionistically but in ways that take transcendence and meaning seriously.
Leaving God Behind James F. McGrath 2008
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Human dignity and the wide range of individual differences is not served well by treating people reductionistically according to their plumbing functions.
"Why Women Aren't Funny." Ann Althouse 2006
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Do the theobiologists imagine that evolution postulates individual components whether genes or organisms evolve “reductionistically”?
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I realized long before that I was not going to read Scripture reductionistically.
Latest Articles 2009
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P.S. Lest I sound reductionistically pragmatic (I'm not), let me affirm that every part of our ecclesiology and missiology must be biblically rigorous.
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