ABSTRACT
One way of opposing a reductionist view of life in general and of man in particular is to point out realities that such a view is unable to explain in fact, and then to show that in principle these realities must remain outside its scope. If one wishes to go beyond these negative considerations and offer alternative non-reductionist explanations of these realities, one meets with at least two difficulties. In the first place, such explanations do not conform to the dominant ideal of exact scientific explanation. In the second place, they often seem to resemble metaphysical explanations. On either count their credentials are in question.
