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Or I am ascending towards the triadic sign relation view. As usual. Great. So if you can sum experience, it must be measurable. Now getting back to el...

So are you suggesting experience completes the physics here - supplying the collapse? Or does experience resemble the incompleteness of a quantum "eve...

So are you only willing to speak analogously here or are you willing to make some actual ontic claim? Why would we call it inter-experiencing and not ...

Feel free to define experience then.

I am responding to your characterisation here. You said they resembled quantum events. But there are no events without collapse. So there remains some...

Except that QM doesn't model the collapse to anything as concrete as an occasion. It only models the time evolution of a set of wavefunction probabili...

It makes sense to me to think of it in terms of smallest form or structure. So you could follow the condensed matter view that a particle is a quasipa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh–Bénard_convection

And neo-Aristotelianism? The supposed subject of your OP. What does that conclude?

What? You need to be scandalised all over again by the notion of a cosmic Heat Death? You've been reminded as you asked. Now squeal in horror.

The difference in my view boils down to the distinction between the general and the particular. So talk of material is talk of a general stuff with so...

But your Aristotelian holism falters as you are deliberately arguing towards some version consistent with a transcendent theism. It is true that mater...

I'm not sure what particular clarification you seek here. But I suppose one concern is to reduce the four to the two in some proper fashion. So my sys...

As epistemology, it doesn't much. But then I am a naturalist in my ontic expectations. So science is simply carrying forward that general project. And...

Nice. Not speaking for Whitehead, but for process thinking in general, the problem for the process view is how does "atomistic" individuation arise wh...

Thanks for that. An excellent paper. It shows that Aristotle's view evolved a lot. But also I would say that Plato's view evolved too, and is far from...

I am simply prodding you to make explicit your position. It ain't crystal clear. And I dispute that being a hard difference. My position is that they ...

A point to note about Peirce is that he was heavily influenced by Schiller. So the poetic or aesthetic is important as the "other" to any rationalism ...

That question has always interested me. What is your understanding of the difference?

If it is about the big old world out there, then sure it needs to be empirically based. What we believe would be constrained by the evidence of experi...

Whatever that means.

Bugger modesty. If that were truly in effect, you wouldn't be championing your laissez faire pluralism against my totalising unity of thought. You hav...

There has to be a difference between doing religion and explaining religion. Explaining is the meta story, the third person objective story. So sure. ...

If we can doubt them, then we can certainly be relatively certain. Epistemology as usual boils down to pragmatics. Doubt and belief ground each other ...

Them Ruskies are cunning. First it was always the left-wing - trade unions and students - as the way to undermine the UK establishment in the Cold War...

Two other stories deepen the impression of Putin exploiting useful right-wing idiots as part of his long-term geopolitical cold war. First, just as Tr...

Brains are optional? They don't evolve for a reason? Sounds legit.

Again, there might be a bunch of events. But you are talking about a pattern. And to even think there is a pattern is to hypothesise the existence of ...

That is the point. The trap had to be so clever that Trump sees himself as its central willing player. So it could be that Trump just consistently has...

You mean, the pattern of the causes? Let's get real. What do you even mean by "cause" here? What is your model of "a cause" - the "true" one? The OP s...

But you can't model the world predictively unless you are modelling the causes of its material patterns. That is what the mathematico-logical framewor...

If it is true that Russia managed to entrap Trump as described, then this raises new psychological questions. How could such a reckless narcissist bec...

Your emphasis is back to front. Science begins in observational description so as to proceed to the modelling that cashes out in predictions. The end ...

Great. You do things your way and I'll do them mine. We don't even have to compare outcomes.

Have you read this? It’s going to be bigger than Nixon or Clinton when the tale is finally told. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-pu...

One of us is a paid professional writer. Is that what makes you so butt-hurt?

So why did you say it? If you are so smart that you could boil it down into fewer words, great. But I think what you meant was that you are unaccustom...

Rather than looking for the hidden genetic advantage - which is always going to be a long-shot given the realities of neurodevelopment - it makes more...

But I don't. I confine it to pragmatic inquiry - that combination of theory and measurement that we would use to organise our experience in intelligib...

I’ve already made the arguments in this thread. Science is simply metaphysical speculation cashed out. Naturalism is what worked best in terms of redu...

It is certainly a waste of time when you both put forward the importance of faith as an act of measurement, a form of evidence for a belief, and then ...

Yeah. And so how will that happen except by not in fact just accepting locality rules as you seem to believe? You don't appreciate that you are constr...

But that would rule out pretty much everything science has discovered. If the needle of a compass spins, how does that magic happen - explained in ter...

It’s the OP. Send your complaint to the publisher. The maths might go backwards in time with no trouble, but we are talking about the physical event. ...

No. It creates a rationally predictive framework that encodes predictions as deductive necessities. So it is capable of being now actually a theory wh...

Let's stick to what I actually claim. I assert that a Peircean pragmatic/semiotic approach to metaphysics is the best. Best in terms of both its ratio...

And all I see is your assertion on that count. Yet the thread is about neo-Aristotelianism. And the criticism of reductionist science relates to its n...

To bring this back down to Earth, what do you mean by "particle"? Does the property of concrete atomistic particleness not develop in time due to the ...

Most of whom thought the world was flat and slavery ethical.

By definition or due to lack of any evidence for why it would need to be taken seriously. Sure, if you believe in reincarnation or the dangers of Hell...