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Authoritarian, paternalistic, xenophobic, rabble rousing, anti-intellectual ... not really spotting the fascist boxes that Trump's not ticking.

I agree in that a continuum is the continuity of a habit or global constraint. But a wrinkle may be that I'm avoiding treating a continuum as causally...

Again, this way of thinking is only true if you are locked into standard issue reductionism. In a holist, four cause, view of causality, existence bec...

A real possibility is an intelligible, or non contradictory, particular. So it speaks to the reality of constraints or generals. A real possibility is...

Yeah. The first rule of Metaphysical club is that you never talk about Metaphysical Club.

A few of the actual top guys missing. Aristotle makes it on, but not Anaximander or Peirce. Heraclitus should get a mention. And no atomists??

Again, I used "brute fact" in it is usual philosophical sense. And it would also apply in the Peircean sense because my point is that laws, symmetries...

My point - in response to mtheory largely - was that they are as much a brute fact of existence as the material particulars which they govern. But the...

Yep. Ideals like perfect circles, or the principle of relativity, represent bounding limits. They are as real as it gets in terms of bounding material...

It is a rational hypothesis about the nature of reality. We presume - because of the success of earlier models - that the reality is best described in...

Relativity is a theory precisely because it could be violated. And it is especially celebrated as a theory because the equations can fit on a t shirt....

Given that all of science is conducted under this kind of pragmatism, yes, it has produced results.

The important contribution this makes in modelling theory is that it makes it clear that models involve a reduction in information. If our goal is to ...

Thanks for your appreciation.

The problem with this kind of old fashioned cognitivism is that it is based on a simplistic computational model of mind and reasoning where states of ...

The first two are proper constants of nature - nature being ultimately dissipative or growth based processes. To call them abstractions is misleading ...

Good luck with your tale of infinite regress.

And who commands/institutionalises the individual commanders. Cmon, this ain't so hard.

Yep.

You are confusing what was a simple point. Under hierarchy theory, the whole is more than the sum of its parts because it has the power to make the pa...

It may help if the individuals don't actively resist. But the army is what has the idea of what it needs the individuals to be. Point one. And the red...

And if one's beliefs are constrained by empirical correspondence AND rational coherence, then one has truly arrived at the pragmatist's nirvana of it ...

Being unconstrained by any demand for consistency, one can indeed claim to believe anything.

But my constraints approach to form would simplify this so that particular forms are simply more constrained versions of general forms. So even a part...

An entertainingly blunt assessment of this kind of "strict individualism" is www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/o'hara/csp-plato.htm It talks...

Yep. And a telltale fact from hierarchy theory is how wholes act to simplify their parts. Wholes refine their components so as to make themselves ... ...

The various difficulties being raised disappear if you treat finality as a global constraint. To have a goal is to accept a constraint towards which a...

The One can be pretty much be read as the argument for vagueness or Apeiron as the foundation for dichotomous or dialectical being. For contrarieties ...

It is transparent that you are adopting the tactic of wasting my time by demanding definitions of the obvious. Respond to my original point - that wik...

So you didn't mean the usual Lockean distinction between primary and secondary qualities? :-}

Well we got there in the end. You understand my point. So what was your clear and precise reply?

Sorry. I was fooled by your pretence at having some familiarity with the topic in question.

So what causes the experience of motion if it isn't necessarily actual motion?

So motion is both a primary and secondary quality?

So illusory motion and real motion look the same, but your primary and secondary quality distinction holds? Sounds legit.

So then, is motion a primary quality if what we experience doesn't have to be what is really there? a-HAH!

So how do we experience motion illusions under this kind of property dualism?

Yep. Materiality is free possibility. And it becomes concrete stuff by "fitting in". The point in relation the OP is that most folk want the world to ...

Yep. :) And the human brain is as far from being a memoryless process as you can get. So any residual spontaneity is going to be highly constrained. S...

Peirce did not use the word, but he clearly employed the concept. In talking about the token~type distinction, for instance, he said: So it is all abo...

The quantum quandry is that you can neither ultimately tell if one thing is the same with itself, or if two things are indeed different. Both identity...

That's fine. It is obvious that processes seem separable. So they can be both wholes, in being some particular species of a process, and yet develop i...

The Planck scale. Don't you know the first thing about quantum physics?

I don't see that as abduction. I would agree that Peirce failed to be completely satisfactory in accounting for abduction. But it is not that type of ...

But quantum mechanics says that "discoverable" is now the issue. On a short or hot enough scale of "discovery", or measurement, everything could be an...

So you think the discovered facts of reality oughtn't inform contemporary metaphysics? You don't think the truth of things ought to act as a constrain...

That's why universals are best understood as constraints. (And why habits too are best understood as constraints.) The puzzle arises because it is cle...

So then nominalism is now disproven by quantum mechanics? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_particles Note how at the quantum level, identical...

But my point is that this is to speak of the substantial actuality - following Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphic form and other such tradititional t...

No. This just repeats the metaphysical mistake of encountering a dichotomy and trying to turn it into a monism where one pole of being is primary or f...