Originally Posted by
Mott the Hoople
Well that or so many categories of theory and experimental evidence overlap that you can’t place a specific phenomena within a specific category of theory.
Much of biology is that way. You can’t understand biology from just a mechanistic (categorical) standpoint. You need to understand a holistic (non-categorical) point of view also because so much of the understanding we have of biology are not described by competing categories but by overlapping categories (theories).
For example you cannot understand fully how a living system works unless you understand how cell theory, evolution, genetics, ecology and homeostasis overlap in when actually determining how a living system works. Which is decidedly non-categorical thinking.
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