hyp. Limitations of Reductionism. While reductionism is a useful tool for predicting the behavior of individual components of a system, it falls short in explaining Emergent Phenomena and the complex behavior of systems as a whole. To gain a more complete understanding of the world, it is necessary to incorporate multiple perspectives and embrace the complexity of Emergent Phenomena.
analytic truth. It is what we know to be true of the universe through empirical methods of arriving at truth [=ways of knowing]. This is where the ball stops for practitioners of Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword.
Mr. Marsh: “You can’t measure it, though; is there an experiment?”