Are some parts of reality more fundamental than others? Physics is often said to be more fundamental than biology, because the physical facts are thought to explain the biological facts. But is the world really divided into levels in this way? Naomi Thompson argues that, in fact, we project this structure onto reality, rather than discovering it there. This structure tells us about our ways of understanding and explaining the world, but it does not tell us about reality as it is in itself.
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