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- Title
Reifying things or relations: substantialism versus functionalism.
- Authors
Strauss, Danie
- Abstract
Our awareness of a diversity of things as well as a multiplicity of relationships took shape in the history of philosophy and the various academic disciplines, embodied in a constant struggle between allegedly independent substances or encompassing relations. Viewing entities as independent (self-sufficient) substances dominated Greek and Medieval philosophy. Since the Renaissance, a definite shift towards the primacy of relations has taken place. Kant claims that our knowledge about matter is limited to knowledge about relationships. Entities are not independent substances, because through the universal modal aspects in which they function they are related, as embodied in the wave-particle duality.
- Subjects
DIVERSITY in education; COLLEGE curriculum; PHILOSOPHY; ANCIENT philosophy; MEDIEVAL philosophy; RENAISSANCE philosophy; WAVE-particle duality
- Publication
Acta Academica, 2013, Vol 45, Issue 2, p262
- ISSN
0587-2405
- Publication type
Article