Abstract:One should understand that an empirical and materialistic holism does exist that has nothing to do with vitalism, but is directed towards a non-reductive approach of science. "Functional explanations as they are used in biology have neither anthropomorphic nor vitalistic implications. That is, when biologists state that a certain item or activity
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