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Against Teleology and Abstraction

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Is There a Perfect House?

A house is just done when you stop building it, right? That's the etymology of perfect. But darwin m says that we as individuals come to think of perfection as something abstract. So rather than perfect just meaning this is done by the person who's making it, it starts to mean something abstract. And he thinks that the further mistake that we make is to assume that nature is like human stuff.

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