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The mechanical philosophy is a case of being victimized by metaphor. I choose Descartes and Newton as excellent examples of metaphysicians of mechani… - Colin Murray Turbayne
" "The mechanical philosophy is a case of being victimized by metaphor. I choose Descartes and Newton as excellent examples of metaphysicians of mechanism malgré eux, that is to say, as unconscious victims of the metaphor of the great machine. Together they have founded a church, more powerful than that founded by Peter and Paul, whose dogmas are now so entrenched that anyone who tries to reallocate the facts is guilty of more than heresy.
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About Colin Murray Turbayne
Colin Murray Turbayne ( 7 February 1916 - 16 May 2006) was an Australian-American philosopher who specialized in the writings of the empiricist George Berkeley while lecturing for over three decades at the University of Rochester. He is also noted for his research into the use and abuse of the linguistic metaphors in the historical writings of several other noted philosophers and scientists of the western tradition in his book The Myth of Metaphor.
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(Berkeley) gave the impression that he too was a victim, that he took the assertion "Mind is a substance" in a literal sense, that he thought that the soul was actually a "substance" "in" which ideas "inhere" and which "supports" the ideas, ect. hence the expression "in the mind".... Berkeley had a purely substantivalist conception of the mind, confirmed by his private utterances.
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