The other great chains

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Ideas of the opposite — yes.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:47 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> And of course, a Big One:
> Binary reductionism.
> Either-Orness
> Pervades and seen deeply by Our Author.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Mar 31, 2018, at 5:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Linearity.
> >
> > 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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