Mr. Ayache argues that the practical problems reflect a basic philosophical error.
Or, perhaps, it will be clear by then that the supposed unity of mind and of value were outgrowths of a philosophical mistake, understandable in the context of a particular stage of scientific development, but an error nonetheless.
They very rarely point out the philosophical error of a person's way of thinking.
This philosophical error is called "essentialism", and it is a supreme irony that Mayr, the opponent of essentialism about individual species, was held in thrall to essentialism about taxonomic concepts.
Finally, wound up with these two strands is the philosophical error that misunderstands concrete, relational processes as fixed, simple abstractions (1997, 147).
(The appearance of this inclination in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, for example, is well mapped by Fogelin [1976, Ch. IV].) And it is characteristic of Wittgenstein to talk of philosophical error in terms of nonsense.
The principal philosophical error that led to the reification of universal properties as independent existents is the conflation of the objects of conception with the objects of perception (EIP 4.1, 302 3).
He intends in this part to combat a range of philosophical errors incompatible, as he sees it, with the Christian faith.
These "errors" are hardly small mistakes, particularly for a liberal economist of the Keynesian school; they verge on philosophical errors.
In Socratic style, he leads the intrepid and presumably naive group expertly through the minefields of philosophical errors and rhetorical ploys – the first half of the book – until they, and we his readers, are judged ready to join him, via a long detour into computer programming, in an assault on his traditional opponents.
