Nonsense. One is an exaggerated ontic claim, the other a modest epistemic fact of neurocognitive processes, easy to demonstrate. You conflate them. Bu...
But there is a difference between there being an "observer problem" as a general epistemic issue and then making it the motivation of some strong onti...
Tosh. It is what allows a human to impose a subjective notion of measurement on the world. A logic of counterfactuality which is then confounded when ...
How does reading off a number make a difference to what the dial has recorded? Be as precise as you like. You claim there is some difference but then ...
This gets tricky as vagueness has to be beyond even quantum indeterminacy as it is usually modelled. One thing to note though is that quantum field th...
Aristotle wasn't the final word on the systems view. He was notable for getting the debate properly started. It is not logically a compound if underst...
It is based on thermo-maths but of the "far from equilibrium" kind of a self-organising dissipative structure. So it is the hierarchical model that an...
A sharp point. Therefore the pragmatic approach to notions of "correct action" is to recognise the need for a separation in terms of global constraint...
To dissect in more detail, matter and form are terms needing more clarification here. But they are certainly equal partners in the deal as they arise ...
Fine. But then if you cross over into a science-constrained metaphysical discussion, you have to take more account of what the science actually says. ...
But this is simply nothing like how physics talks. You are projecting. It is your central misunderstanding. An ontology of "stuff" is medieval science...
Perhaps I am too use to the cut and thrust of academia. Polite agreement is never the helpful response. That is like standing on a tennis court weakly...
But what is the plan? Beyond being polite and amiable to your fellow human? I mean that is a practical personal plan. If things work out, then you are...
You mischaracterise science which in fact progresses by resolving the world into its metaphysical strength dichotomies. Quantum theory first dissolved...
Who is this "we"? I've put a lot of effort into the literature that exists to explain history, politics and society this way. I could give you a readi...
Fine. But the OP set it out this way.... So a grander view was being asked for than a parochial one. Then Bono unhelpfully heaped on his confusion wit...
No. I’m not arguing for open-ended dialectics. I’m arguing for arriving at some suitably definite dichotomy where just is defined with precision in te...
But in what sense? What context? Can you define these terms as you contextually understand them. The slippery use of language shows folk are uncertain...
That’s right. Which you can see is putting us into the frame of being growth predicated organisms. And yet then confusing things by pretending that th...
Enough with the bully tactics meant to show that your audience stands with you in judgement of me. Either give proper answers to fair questions or bog...
Nope. That is just you making shit up after I specified that I was talking about systems that grow, evolve and change ... as is possible in a metaphyi...
Why would I have to treat these as antithetical rather than complementary? You haven't even said clearly if you view equal and fair as different, let ...
My description was of how things are fundamentally constrained. There are pragmatic limits that shape our individual degrees of freedom. So is/ought i...
Your one trick. Pretend there have been no answers so as to cover your own failure to respond in good faith. You introduced fair vs equal as some kind...
Except we have to live together in the actual world and so that roots any utopias in the realities of thermodynamics. Any action we take is going to h...
But I asked you to present your case in your words. As usual, that is far too risky. And now you are resorting to your usual defence of "everyone who ...
My impression is he just wants to be a metaphysics basher and to avoid at all costs having then to address the metaphysical inconsistencies that are b...
This is a quite normal political question. Any fool would say we want a society that is balanced, fair, equal and just. The question then becomes well...
But you have to clear up why your saccharine image illustrates anything in the first place. You say it is something about distributions. And I agree. ...
You and your eternal whinging. Just answer the question. What argument do you think your cartoon makes about "distributions" that might be dichotomous...
Clean out your ears. This was the OP that I was addressing. I was pointing to the third option of the pragmatic/semiotic view that stands beyond the i...
Yep. And I pointed to how this reflects the two kinds of equilibrium distributions in statistical mechanics – Gaussian and Scalefree. Folk were object...
My point was that the basic issue is self-organisation. Reductionist science had the metaphysics that order is random accident. Religion said order wa...
You are making a confused argument. Anaximander posited the Apeiron as that from which a dichotomously structure ream of material complexity arises, b...
That isn't my argument. My argument is that it is the metaphysical principles which matter. The structural or architectural principles. So it is more ...
But then this "equality" is itself dichotomised in thermodynamics. There is the conventional reductionist metaphysics of Boltzmann that is a closed sy...
Yep. The holistic ecological perspective brings into focus our real world ethical concerns of today. The obvious one is whether humans have some kind ...
The reason why the hylomorphic dichotomy of matter and form splits into four causes is because the further distinction of particular-general or local-...
Or indeed, exactly what I've always said. As it happens Deacon is a serial offender when it comes to picking up good ideas and recycling them in his o...
You do not appear to have even argued for them. So how could I know what you have in mind? You never joined. And so won't be missed. Oh yeah. A classi...
Doing the usual? Offering judgement and having no argument. Standing on the sideline, pretending you are winning when you aren't even in the game. :ya...
Nature should be our instructor for sure. Unless you are indeed a theist or idealist. But Darwinian competition was the first draft of science. It was...
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