Conatus: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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recognise that all the splits identified could be artificial. This is as much of a challenge for science as it is for those of a more philosophical or religious persuasion. What, it could be asked, would it mean for science if subject and object were not seen as separate entities? What would it mean to just accept that individuals have both mental and physical attributes and the two cannot be split up? The next chapter will discuss other particular types of split that have cast a long shadow in Western philosophy and science. Once the most important splits in our thinking have been examined we may be in a better position to answer the questions I have posed above.

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