The other great chains

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 07:46:48 CDT 2018


And of course, a Big One:
Binary reductionism. 
Either-Orness
Pervades and seen deeply by Our Author. 

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> On Mar 31, 2018, at 5:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Linearity.
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> Related: that history progresses to an End. 
> (Subverted, arguably, in M & D) 
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>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lovejoy, in The Great Chain of Being, says that hierarchical scheme has been “one of the half-dozen most potent and persistent presuppositions in Western thought.”
>> 
>> Anybody care to nominate some of the others? Any we see in M&D?
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