apokrisis

A very odd take. Laws appeal to symmetries. So they are grounded in mathematical logic. The third law seems a good example where no one would much thi...

Like wow. Who woulda thunk? Speaking here for the anthropological and psychological science that provided the evidence that might have disturbed the d...

What bollocks. Abduction starts the game of pragmatic reasoning as you have to have a belief to doubt. All abduction is saying is that we can pick up ...

But the larger reason for this is that a rationally structured world is based on the logic of counterfactuality. An intelligent system is based on bei...

But in the OP you also said… …so naturally I thought that was the direction you might explore. The systems perspective. Causality as so much more than...

Which bit are you disagreeing about? Reduction to efficient cause is a mindset based on certain metaphysical presuppositions. You say the logical effi...

But biology in fact depends on the mechanical harnessing of quantum causes. An enzyme is a clamp to lock organic molecules into positions where quantu...

Not sure what your question is. But if we are talking about the epistemic issue of the pragmatic usefulness of our causal models of the world, then un...

As ontology to epistemology. A two for one deal. You have the sign relation as an account of how an organism models its world. And then you have this ...

I hear you. But quantum physics does raise the issue of retrocausality as part of its holism. In some restricted sense, the future does act backwards ...

Evolvability itself evolves, Organisms can tune the rate of their variability. Some genes are far more conserved than others. And then selection acts ...

Sure. But the system’s approach can deal in grades of teleology. Minds can form purposes, bodies can shape functions and then the physical realm can h...

I would suggest that what we call an accident is the opposite of what we call a necessity. So the more fundamental dichotomy is chance and necessity. ...

Both things can be true. We do impose our epistemology on Nature. We are creating a narrative. But also Nature is there to be spoken about. We can hop...

So what is natural selection but a constraint on genetic variety? Biology relies on its evolvability as its primary cause. It creates the possibilitie...

That’s it. Between the downward constraints and the bottom up construction, the reality that emerges inbetween as the dynamical balance. This is the g...

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Yes. This is a point very specific to Peircean semiotics and hierarchy theory. But a relational view of reality is already more irreducibly complex th...

Triple dare? But you haven’t moved on from tautology. Love is love. Good is good. Unity of being is … well, unity I guess. And the being thereof. A pr...

Now you are just making babbling noises. But never a topic I raised. And now you don’t want to have to provide an answer. Curious. Wishful thinking. I...

And I am saying that if this is going to be a useful distinction – one that has dichotomistic rigour – you need to be able to tell me "as opposed to w...

I thought you were talking about love. Why the sudden change of topic? Does good and bad seem to make more sense if we are speaking generally about Na...

I simply point out the lack of any argument in your post. Not even any poetry as some kind of evidence. Just some mutterings about sex as rape and pra...

Yep. The kind of facts one finds in Hallmark cards. And PF apparently.

All this talk of love spoken through gritted teeth. Something's up. :up:

So why just two parents? Why this complementary thing of a penis and a vagina, a sperm and an egg, the birth of a girl or a boy? And if love makes the...

Yep. It finally seems clear. You feel the notion of causality is too simple to deal with the complexities of reality. Applying its simple rules quickl...

Competition-cooperation is the balancing act necessary to live as a society. Although humans are then also still shaped by the dominance-submission hi...

But right there you point to the core dynamic that organises society - a balance between competition and cooperation - and then shrug your shoulders a...

But if every action is matched by an equal and opposite reaction, then who actually pushed whom Newton? What happens when you are an astronaut and thr...

I hear you. You coulda been a contender. But yah couldna be bothered. :up:

Don't be insulted. Even a rag bag of fragments is not only as far as most folk get in knitting together their lives into some sort of semblance of a c...

Peirce had a theory of tychism or objective chance. And that justified his "propensity" approach to probability. The claim is that chance or indetermi...

And there will be those who just love such an answer. But there is a reason why pragmatism describes it as the natural state of the newborn helpless b...

Not sure if we even live on the same planet. :up: So you have differential equations. And you have a notion of a world populated by objects. A world o...

And yet maths tells us that even chaos is a structured pattern. One never arrives at the sound of the one hand clapping. The clapping just get weaker ...

And the other response would be – it depends where you find it? So what are these many other choices that you have in mind? Isn't it odd how when you ...

Peirce had his model of tychism or the probability of propensities. Popper recapitulated it. So the idea has been taken seriously.

The mistake would be to not expect some well justified dichotomy to emerge where one can point to a disagreement. So if I am successfully taking thing...

Bingo. :lol:

But that is the metaphysical architecture that sets up the dynamic interplay over time. It is boiling causality down into the logical account rather t...

What’s with the twee NPC soliloquies?

So you self-publish on Amazon and try to drum up attention on some random philosophy forum with aggressive demands for definitions of “what is a syste...

I knew what it meant from the systems science perspective. And also just in having grown up in Asia and seeing it as part of the daily social habit, w...

I will state the obvious in that we have this freedom as a right and then the responsibility to exercise it as a fact. Modern society reformed itself ...

If that is a thought that comforts you, OK.

It's not a debate when you equivocate and waffle. If you want to believe that it is antagonism you face rather than rigour, then OK.

Mechanical forces are quite a particular subset of physics. They depend on the simplistic ontology of atoms in a void. Particles that have mass, shape...

There is a boundary between philosophy as making rational sense of the world and philosophy as making shit up. Philosophy is critical thinking. And it...

But my argument is that time is generated from rotation. The first time that something could go around in a circle and so be different from the first ...