Saturday, December 29, 2007

Philosophical Styles - The Tree Analogy

{This may be updated from time to time}

Analytic: We can't see the forest for the trees.

Post-Analytic: Here, let me show you how to see the forest...

Continental: OOOHHH...Look at the pretty forest!

Constructionist: 'Tree' and 'Forest' are just social constructs.

Deconstructionist: There is no forest without the trees, and there are no trees without the nuts...

Feminist: A tree is a phallic symbol, and a forest is a sign of male domination.

Supervenist: The forest is real but will disappear if we cut down the trees.

Reductionist: The forest is nothing over and above the sum of the trees.

Eliminativist: What forest?

Dualist: There are two things; the forest, and the trees.

Panpsychist: The forest is a living entity!

Neutral Monist: No, not trees, not a forest, but something else entirely different.

Relativist: You are all correct, but speaking past each other.

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