To take a mere " description " as having primary reality is to commit the " fallacy of misplaced concreteness ".
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What is ordinarily conceived of as a single person, for instance, is philosophically described as a continuum of overlapping concrete ( what Whitehead calls the " fallacy of misplaced concreteness " ).
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To think otherwise, stated Bateson, was to be guilty of what Alfred North Whitehead called the " fallacy of misplaced concreteness . " There was no singular or self-evident way to understand the Iatmul naven rite.
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Yale's Michael Coe likes to talk about what he calls " the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, " the tendency among Mormon theorists like Sorenson to keep the discussion trained on all sorts of extraneous subtopics . . . while avoiding what is most obvious : that Joseph Smith probably meant " horse " when he wrote down the word " horse ".