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Koshkin on Feb 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)

By the same logic economics is applied physics. This fallacy is called "reductionism".

scrrr on Feb 21, 2018 [–]

Your comment prompted a web search and I ended up here: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-reductionism-a-logical-fallacy

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