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Woodsy
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07-26-2009 7:30 AM 		Reply to: Message 20 by New Cat's Eye
07-26-2009 1:23 AM

Re: Four responders, four different answers.
To an outsider, this reeks of old-fashioned essentialism and reification. Why do people insist on talking about processes as if they were things?
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Life is a process that occurs in suitable assemblages of matter.
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The intangible force that causes the vital functions of the body
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Do people really still think like this in the modern world? I thought vitalism was out of fashion.
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Spirits and souls are fictions used to terrify the gullible into obeying the priests.
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