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Ideas for David J.Chalmers, Michael Jubien and Kevin Aho

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

20736	Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho]
	Full Idea: Crucial to the scientific method is the ability to abstract out the subjective qualities that we give to things - such as beauty, meaning, purpose, and value - and focus only on the objective qualities of things, which can be measured and quantified.
	From: Kevin Aho (Existentialism: an introduction [2014], 1 'Emergence')
	A reaction: This seems to me exactly right. People who deny the primary/secondary distinction, like Hume, are usually correspondingly pessimistic about science. And Hume was wrong about that.

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

2396	Reductive explanation is not the be-all and the end-all of explanation [Chalmers]
	Full Idea: Reductive explanation is not the be-all and the end-all of explanation.
	From: David J.Chalmers (The Conscious Mind [1996], 1.2.2)