So was he speaking metaphorically or literally? Does "tended to associate" mean logically derived from first principles, or useful for introducing a b...
Yes. But then so is all matter ... in the pansemiotic view. That is, if we want the ultimate category that underpins reality, it is a logic of relatio...
That treats the categories as an accurate model of human perception. The brain models it’s world by imposing cognitive structure top down. Even to see...
It makes sense to start with an analysis of the structure of experience as an epistemic necessity. Kant shows that. It becomes nonsense to then claim ...
Surely they have to transcend the phenomenal to avoid a mere reduction to idealism. This is where the pragmatism comes in. Experience can be organised...
This emphasises the triad as a series of relations of expanding dimensionality. It is a reductionist version in the spirit of Euclidean geometry or Ne...
Remember that cosmology relies on the kinetic explosion of the Big Bang being exactly balanced by the gravitational potential of all the crud being fl...
If you want to attack the foundations of physics, get published in a major journal. A physics forum is not going to be the place. It is for explaining...
It certainly does. In a pragmatic sense. You're the one that gets banned from physics forums, not me. And this is a philosophy forum. The ability to s...
I've talked about it in every post ever. From Anaximander to Peirce to modern systems science. The immanence of self-organisation. The triadic process...
You misunderstand the pragmatism on which the scientific method is based. Hah. I got philosophy banned on Physics Forum and yet was not banned myself....
As usual, you agree even though you disagree. You first assert your position as the expert, and then start mumbling into your fingers. Like a cat snif...
Sure. You call the length 2. If it is 1.99999... in actuality, you also call that 2. And if 2 is in fact only 2.0000... - that is, a fact still be to ...
Ok. You give me an example from maths and not from physics. :roll: But the complex plane is a good example of how maths works its way backwards by rem...
Oh it's just you again "Marco". :razz: Let's hear again how you waste your education with a turn towards crackpottery.... Yup. The expected panicked f...
But to call them real could be just to compound the error of calling them unreal. That way lies a sterile debate where both sides are wrong because th...
Do you mean in the models of dynamical systems? Which models exactly? Chaos theory is a good example of how this issue is fudged. The shadowing lemma ...
Are gravitons even real, rather than virtual calculational devices? And gravity increases in effective strength as you shrink the scale factor. As the...
Sure. We can construct a machinery that homes in on a fixed point, a singularity. The square root operation can be modelled as an infinite series of i...
Sure. So is semiosis. Code leads to mechanisation. A system of logical switching behaviour is imposed on the entropic flows of the world. But even as ...
It is unbound possibility. So not about an actualised duration. Vagueness is defined as that to which the principle of noncontradiction fails to apply...
And even 1 is 1.00000.... (and claimed to be indistinguishable from 0.9999....) :smile: All modelling is questionable. But the main question that need...
I really like Wheeler as a bold and holistic thinker. The anthropic principle is also an obviously powerful argument when it comes to the cosmological...
So geometry then injects just enough physical reality into the mathematical abstraction to raise the problem? Zeno's paradoxes were another route into...
If you are interested, this is why biologists distinguish between the mortal body and the immortal stem line. So it was a feature of sexual reproducti...
There is no clear question in the OP, but I'm happy to speculate. :grin: As a minor point, geometry and algebra are dual descriptions of nature as Mic...
Like science, this is us humans reaching for the objectivity of a measurement. So all games have rules and scoring. Even figure skating has scoring. A...
Yep. And unlike the conventional notion of a computer – the representational understanding - meaning arises semiotically. What is significant is the b...
So simulated annealing? Hebbian gradients? Do you want pointers to scientific models of recognition? What you seem to want to say is just the usual wa...
No comparison to what? I agree, no comparison of any merit to a Turing Machine. But why not of some comparison to a neural network? If your argument i...
You mean not like a Turing Machine, or not like any kind of machine architecture, including neural networks that try to mimic the brain? It is unclear...
Is there a good reason to claim this? Cognitive neuroscience would tell us that the ability to recognise - the ability to make a qualitative judgement...
The OP is heading in the right direction. But life is in fact entrained to the second law and serves it by accelerating universal entropification. Bar...
Same old chestnut. Same old answer. Realism is wrong to the degree it neglects that all such speech acts have some pragmatic purpose. So the world isn...
As a telos, it would be a material tendency rather than a sentient purpose - what Salthe calls teleomaty rather than teleology. And rather than just b...
If in a general way you take an evolutionary or process view of reality - what exists is what is self-stabilising - then symmetry principles explain w...
Yep. That is the creation of concrete possibilities by the preparation of a system. It is like carving a die with six sides. You constrain things so t...
I’m fine with methodological naturalism as a fallback position. But it is a little much to claim the virtues of being both objective and instrumental....
Yep. But unfortunately a further dichotomy is built into that - one that Peirce was still working on. Just as there is a Aristotelian distinction betw...
Systems with pressures and temperatures are examples of this general way of thinking. But one of the other things I would point out here is the “weird...
Yep. Your post got me thinking that this is another way into the interpretation issues. The first step is to drop the monistic demand that something i...
The Galton board is a good example. But doesn’t it illustrate the way that micro chance and macro determinism are yoked together? The board engineers ...
Oddly enough, Peirce wound up thinking Spinoza was the nearest to being a proper pragmatist like himself - on the basis of being a realist rather than...
In fact I take the opposite position that something exists because everything was not possible. Reality is what is left over after all the other possi...
You’ve misunderstood. My point was that methodological naturalism is fine, but too often that is taken to mean a classical notion of physical reality ...
With enough practice, one might learn. Some folk can add up a column of figures almost by glancing. So you might master the mathematical task to the l...
Or rather, that our brains “process” by predicting the general flow of the world and its events, and then revert to particular attentional focus to th...
Classical metaphysics is that familiar Newtonian concoction of determinism, materialism, atomism, monism, mechanicalism and locality which we all so l...
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