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Fair enough, I stand corrected. But I don't expect it to be resolved in my lifetime. Shame, it's the real substance of the thread.

This has already been referred to but it's always worth another mention, https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

Sure ain't bedtime reading. But notice this declaration in the second-last paragraph: So Anscombe is not, in criticizing Lewis, defending naturalism. ...

By whom? I enrolled in psychology as an undergraduate, but was eventually dissappointed by the subject. The orientation of the department at the Unive...

:clap: (You should have a look at this week's edition of PBS Spacetime. Excellent presentation on Wheeler's participatory universe. ) You mean, the 4%...

But I doubt you'd like the place. The Anscombe-Lewis debate was the former's criticism of the latter's presentation of the Argument from Reason. You'l...

It was a forum nickname of mine on some other forums. Always was a word I liked. I read the Anscombe article before I posted it. I didn't think it rea...

more like, a return to the quotidian.

shame it came to that. I'll take it as a hint to turn my attention to something other than philosophy forums for a while.

If this had happened under Labor the Libs would be howling blue murder.

Cancer comes from cells that don’t follow rules. There’s some physical causation for ya, of a most unpleasant kind.

You say that a lot. :wink:

So, you don’t like him? :yikes: Nothing to do with what you said previously, that the effectiveness of math is due to it being ‘fit’. As I said, cover...

I think the idea that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason has been superseded by Quine or subsequent science is plain wrong. I think it’s more likely that ...

The term I used was ‘physical causation’ by which I mean the identification of causes that can be understood in principle by the physical or natural s...

With respect to "the criterion of objectivity": I did some research on the word and found that it only comes into use in the early modern period. And ...

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But the particle is what appears. The wavefunction never appears but can only be inferred. 'Phenomenon' means 'what appears'. Fair enough. :chin:

From my understanding the Copenhagen interpretation simply observes that we can't know what sub-atomic entities are apart from how they appear to us w...

No proof is available in this respect, otherwise there would be no scope for interpretation.

As I'm not a physicist, I can't disprove that, but suffice to say that hidden variable theories are held by only a minority of scientists, to my knowl...

I've noticed and drawn attention to this book a few times over the years, with your interests you in particular might find it interesting Zen and the ...

I'm trying to stick with traditional and modern philosophy. I'm interested in the question of the nature of abstract objects. Actually I've bought a t...

This is where there are some philosophically difficult questions to consider. With respect to LaPlace's Daemon - the accepted wisdom is that Heisenber...

It's only that once these discussions begin to involve interpretations of quantum mechanics, then they tend to fall into holes from which there is rar...

This is another big digression, but those questions are very difficult from a philosophical point of view, aren't they? You seem to be attributing to ...

That's what Kant is denying - space is not any kind of 'stuff' or 'thing' or 'object' so is not 'made of' anything.

have now!

I have precisely zero idea of what you're on about. The salient points regarding time and space are laid out in the Transcendental Doctrine of the Ele...

There’s nothing ‘ghostly’ about mathematical logic applied to physical processes. That enables us to peer into the domain of pure possibility and actu...

That is really not a fair criticism, but then maybe you’re trolling, which you seem to be doing in many of your comments. Comparative religion is a pe...

Major digression, but very well. It's the general consensus today that ideas are a product of the mind, and so of the brain. That the explanatory chai...

The OP lays it out pretty clearly. Hume's analysis of causation and Kant's answer to Hume would comprise the basis for a semester. I did do the Hume s...

Do you think it would be recognised at all in the absence of machines? Does this principles manifest anywhere but in machines and organisms? You mean,...

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Why? I remember now where I came across Hoffmeyer, there's a sidebar in the Information Philosopher's entry on Pattee which links to his page. I can't...

I kind of agree on emotional grounds, but I'd like to come up with an argument that is harder for physicalism to simply shrug off. Where all of this s...

But it's also an empirical observation. The specifics of which ball, why it's moving (i.e. someone threw it) and so on are contingent, but the fact th...

But necessarily true propositions are those which are 'true in all possible worlds'. People nowadays conjecture that there are universes in which the ...

But why not? But it would be true in all possible worlds that the ball went through the window because it was moving. It would be a general statement,...

I'll step into that one. It has to do with the contingent, with dependent conditions. Everything in causal sequences is dependent on something else. H...

I see the connection when you say, using logic, that 'a' must be the explanation for 'b'. I wrote to a retired professor whose website I often read, h...

Ah, but does it. It's still an inference - that there must be a causal connection. The difficulty arises when you say what that causal relationship is...

That is precisely the assumption that David Hume calls into question in his 'Treatise on the Human Understanding'. He argues that even though we obser...

Mellaisoux is an advocate for what Kant would describe as transcendental realism - the conviction that the objective domain has an inherent or intrins...

Good observation, but the whole question of whether such relations can be described as 'logical' is what is at issue in this thread.

'Oedipus, schmedipus, what do I care, so long as he loves his mother!' - a line, I think from a musical, my mother used to repeat often. (Another was ...

If you want to think sensibly about it, then try to deflate the hysterically overblown figures of speech. Hume never said any such thing, his prose wa...