A Blueprint for a Non-Reductionist Theory of Reality
There can be no discursive justification for the belief that any particular kind of entities can be independent of all other kinds.
There can be no discursive justification for the belief that any particular kind of entities can be independent of all other kinds.
It is by the theories of philosophy and the sciences that we probe the deeper nature of, and construct explanations of, all that we experience. No such theory can fail to be regulated and guided by some religious belief or other.
Explicit or not, ontologies play a decisive role in the interpretation of any scientific theory.