"Is not a call for?"
"To say that it is an emergent property of the brain is not a call for magic or pseudoscience..."
What does "is not a call for ~" mean in this context,
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"A call for (something)" is an appeal for it, a forceful request for it. " To call for (something)" is to create a need for it. In my opinion, the writer fell between the two chairs.
- "A call for (something)" is an appeal for it, a forceful request for it.
- " To call for (something)" is to create a need for it.
- In my opinion, the writer fell between the two chairs.
- He meant that to speak of emergent properties of the brain does not necessarily entail or even suggest the validity of magic or pseaudoscience.
- (It really does, though.
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"A call for (something)" is an appeal for it, a forceful request for it. "To call for (something)" is to create a need for it. In my opinion, the writer fell between the two chairs. He meant that to speak of emergent properties of the brain does not necessarily entail or even suggest the validity of magic or pseaudoscience. (It really does, though. Mysticism by the back door.)
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