The fallacies of simple location and misplaced concreteness are the cardinal sins of mechanistic philosophy because they fail the test of empirical adequacy, as these abstractions are inadequate to concrete experience.

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Whitehead Lecturer

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there's nothing that could be said about you that's worse...you engage in the fallacy of simple location or the fallacy of misplaced abstraction those are the unpardonable sin philosophical...they fail the test of empirical adequacy

Source

A History of Philosophy | 63 Whitehead's "Science and Modern World"wheatoncollege
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