Water is not, in fact, H20.<\/a> Our reductionist culture will, sooner or later, have to abandon the myth that when you talk about what something is made of, you are talking about what it is.<\/p>\nIf so simple a thing as water is not merely what it is made of, how much less is a human being subject to the brainless reductionism of the materialist?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Think again. Water is not, in fact, H20. Our reductionist culture will, sooner or later, have to abandon the myth that when you talk about what something is made of, you are talking about what it is. If so simple a thing as water is not merely what it is made of, how much less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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