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JQuinton comments on Smart non-reductionists, philosophical vs. engineering mindsets, and religion - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JQuinton 09 August 2012 12:19:54AM 1 point [-]

To put this into a programming analogy, Feser thinks reductionism is an "object" in OOP. In reality, the object in OOP, isn't a "reduction" of whatever we instantiate from that object. Reductionism would be reducing that object in OOP to its individual lines of code (at the least).