An emergent property is a property which a collection or complex system has, but which the individual members do not have. In such a case, the whole system is sometimes said to have Gestalt. A failure to realize that a property is emergent, or supervenient, leads to the fallacy of division. For example, the taste of saltiness is a property of salt, but that does not mean that it is also a property of sodium and chlorine, the two elements which make up salt. Thus, saltiness is an emergent or a supervenient property of salt. Claiming that chlorine must be salty because salt is salty would be an example of the fallacy of division.
Read this link about tornadoes, depressions and bird flight.
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Good morning.. this is Anthony D'Angelo from your 540-810 class. I left early last class and would like to know what I need to go over and study.. Please email me
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We're doing Section, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3.
hi, The soul subject is very contoversial, because for what I understood its saying that the soul does not exist but it has not been proven that it does exist either.
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