What underlies the ways people function?

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Is a preference for analogy and reification (e.g., 'the mind') in Psychology an illustration of the fact that we have no good idea about what underlies the ways that people function?

-- linda holland (hollandj@ozemail.com.au), August 10, 2001

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Hi Linda, I think your phrasing "no good idea about what underlies the ways that people function" is (what?) over stated, as functioning in people takes on a wide variety of activities and for many of these we have very good ideas about what underlies them. Can you give me an example of a human function which we are clueless to explain and for which we risk explainations of poetry or metaphysics? Best, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), August 22, 2001.

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