“Whitehead’s “fallacy of misplaced concreteness” is perhaps his single most relevant concept for diagnosing the rhetoric of contemporary scientism. The fallacy involves taking mathematical models developed for certain purposes under certain idealizations and insisting that whatever does not fit inside them is unreal.”
—Matthew Segall, Heaven Save Us from Metaphysics in Denial
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/heaven-save-us-from-metaphysics-in
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