Naturalism is a philosophy that looks to science to fill in the details. It is based on putting becoming before being, contrary to the classical and Christian assertion that being precedes becoming. We have to know what or who something is before we can understand how it got that way, or what we’re even talking …
Reductionism goes beyond naturalism to say that biology is reducible to chemistry which is reducible to physics. The acid of reductionism turns fixed kinds into temporary kinds and differences in kind into differences in degree. The paradigmatic example of differences in kind is the periodic table of elements. This structure is fixed and unchangeable. But …
The dialectic of extremes and means is a method of reasoning whereby one begins with extremes and reasons to means or vice versa. If one begins with means, these are considered as unanalyzed entities, attributes, propositions, etc. The goal is to work out the implications of them as principles or to analyze them into their …
