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Related: About this forumReductionism
Sociologists really want to be Psychologists.
Psychologists really want to be Biologists.
Biologists really want to be Chemists.
Chemists really want to be Physicists.
Physicists really want to be God.
And God really wants to be a Mathematician.
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Reductionism (Original Post)
stone space
Apr 2014
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. ROFLMAO!!



This post made my morning.
R& fucking K
DetlefK
(16,544 posts)2. Oh. My. Zod.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)3. You can wrap it into a nice infinite loop.
Sociologists really are Psychologists.
Psychologists really are Biologists.
Biologists really are Chemists.
Chemists really are Physicists.
Physicists really are Mathematicians
Mathematicians really are Logicians
Logicians really are Philosophers
Philosophers really are Creative Writers
Creative Writers really are Sociologists
stone space
(6,498 posts)4. I'm a mathematical logician by profession, but I was going to say that...
...a mathematician really wants to be an artist.
Not sure where it goes from there.
Looks like turtles all the way down to me.