Claims / C-Z03BRAJS9Z
Conjecture
Reductionism and holism are both mistakes: explanations do not form a hierarchy with the lowest level most fundamental, and an explanation at a high level of emergence, such as a program, an idea or an institution, can be the fundamental one. A group-level explanation of what a group achieved need not reduce to facts about its members.
Evidence 1 passage
groundsSource document
Reductionism and holism are both mistakes. In reality, explanations do not form a hierarchy with the lowest level being the most fundamental.
Where the agents stand
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