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Relations without Relata?
The subtitle of Ladyman's "Every Thing Must Go" is "Metaphysics Naturalized." This emphasizes that Ladyman and others are motivated by scientific concerns, especially those of ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
I am surprised no one has mentioned Popper's and Penrose's 3 universes.
Popper's 3 Worlds
From wikipedia
World 1
The realm of states and processes as studied by the natural sciences. These include ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Cogito, we should abandon the old idea of divvying up the world into things that exist and things that don't exist. Instead go Meinong's way and construct new categories for *"exists" e.g. ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Following on from @AnoE, you also need to define the word "unicorn". During the renaissance, collectors would buy unicorn horns, which were, in fact, the tusks of narwhals. We could argue ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
It is well possible that the universe is literally infinite.1
In that case, literally everything and anything that is possible — however improbable — also exists, including things nobody ever thought ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
When you say, "exists", it seems in your question that exist implies materially exists, as in, you can sense it with the 5 basic human senses. Hence you get answers that respond to material ...
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deductive reasoning and first principle
Reductionism is not holism. Holism is not Reductionism. A or Not A . Unless A and Not A have the same conclusion.
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deductive reasoning and first principle
Reasoning from axioms to conclusions uses deductive reasoning, but that does not mean that all forms of deductive reasoning are from axioms. For instance, we know that all dogs have four legs. If we ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
I would argue that the greek concept of universe encompasses platonic concepts, which could be said to exist in the same sense that meromorphic functions on the complex plane exist. But beyond that ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Universe = "Cosmos and all within".
QUESTION: Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Do unicorns exist? No. Are unicorns "within the cosmos"? No....
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
The existence of the word "multiverse" implies that there is more than one universe, in which case the universe cannot contain everything there is, even without considering mythical beasts.
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
There's two competing definitions of universe.
1 is everything that exists, period.
Another is, everything that exists in this same space-time as us.
The second definition is what many people mean ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
The key to questions like this is to define what every word really means to you. Then you check the definitions against each other using some logic you are familiar and that you deem appropriate; and ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Well, one could define universe as whatever he wants it to be, but when we talk about the universe we usually think of a physical universe, something like : all existing matter and space considered as ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
Nothing exists permanently. Things arise , change while persisting and vanish. Universe contains all those things which arise or had arisen in the past or will arise in the future. It includes both ...
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Does the universe include everything, or merely everything that exists?
The universe is defined as all that exists. "Unicorn" is a fictitious animal. It is a name without a referent.
The name and the concept of a unicorn exist in the universe, but a ...
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If someone doesn't believe in "the" theory of category mistakes
Category-Error equivalents across fields
It is remarkable to note that from Aristotle on and through Kant, fundamental categories has been a staple of philosophy but philosophy has not dealt with ...
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If someone doesn't believe in "the" theory of category mistakes
You ask:
To the extent that some (possible) person (possibly) doesn't believe in the concept of "making category mistakes," is it even possible for that person to make category mistakes?
I ...
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What are reasonable counter objections to the argument that materialism is incoherent because it conceptually separates Being and Mentality?
Being is such a general term that you hardly find any ontological entity which does not deal with being (= existent)
things.
Physicalism (taken as a neutral word better better than the fighting
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What are reasonable counter objections to the argument that materialism is incoherent because it conceptually separates Being and Mentality?
David Bentley Hart
I have a feeling David Bentley Hart will be agreeable to you.
Note: The book seems to be written by a traditional Christian theologian but from the very subtitle itself — Being ...
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What are reasonable counter objections to the argument that materialism is incoherent because it conceptually separates Being and Mentality?
In short, (monistic) materialism doesn't separate being and mentality.
Dualism makes such a separation. The emergence you have in mind (which would be separate) sounds like emergent materialism (...
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What are reasonable counter objections to the argument that materialism is incoherent because it conceptually separates Being and Mentality?
One reasonable counter argument is that that's potentially the opposite of the truth, Materialism is a type of monism, which means all of it is wrapped up in this place we call the physical world.
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What are reasonable counter objections to the argument that materialism is incoherent because it conceptually separates Being and Mentality?
X is a body iff X exists and X is divisible.
X is a point particle iff X exists and X isn't divisible.
Therefore, by the propositional calculus
X is a point particle or X is a body iff X exists.
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Emergent Behavior: Observer-Constructed or Observer-Independent behavior of systems
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Are there theoretical perspectives that support this observer-centric interpretation of emergent phenomena? If so, which authors should I research to learn more?
Undoubtedly yes. In ...
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How does viewing all human creations as 'corporations' align with or challenge existing philosophical frameworks?
You can define anything however you want. All nonstandard definitions do is change what language you are speaking.
However, you'll need another nonstandard definition for "seek" if you want ...
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Emergent Behavior: Observer-Constructed or Observer-Independent behavior of systems
This answer will be a criticism of your premise rather than references endorsing it.
When you state:
The emergent behaviors claimed to be observed in certain phenomena are not inherent to the ...
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Emergent Behavior: Observer-Constructed or Observer-Independent behavior of systems
The emergent behaviors claimed to be observed in certain phenomena are not inherent to the phenomena themselves but are artifacts of the mental representations and interpretations of researchers, who ...
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Emergent Behavior: Observer-Constructed or Observer-Independent behavior of systems
The emergent behaviors claimed to be observed in certain phenomena are not inherent to the phenomena themselves but are artifacts of the mental representations and interpretations of researchers, who ...
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Is Stephen Hawking's denial that gods exists founded on a misunderstanding?
Yes. He conceives of God as a "first cause" and that always leads to the question "who created God?" ad infinitum. Hawking sets up the question poorly because he has an agenda and ...
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Is Stephen Hawking's denial that gods exists founded on a misunderstanding?
Dipok didn't quote Hawking, and didn't mention what particular program or interview they watched, and Hawking gave a lot of interviews, so there's no way to be sure what prompted this question. But ...
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
You ask:
Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies.
I think your question is prescient, but I think the terminology &...
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
The question seems to combine several methodologies in inappropriate ways.
Starting with the primacy of experience -- is phenomenalism. Phenomenalism can, with great effort, be formulated to be semi-...
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Is there a category even more general than "thing"?
There is a more general category: the Tao. ...Or something like that. Break down the unity of the Tao, and you have yang (things) and yin (flows). And "from two begot three, and from three ...
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
The OP’s post claims that “our specific conscious experience is a distinct thing in the universe, determined by some features and patterns in the brain, not by our wishes, frameworks, or worldview.”
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
You say :
Thus, our specific conscious experience is a distinct thing in the
universe, determined by some features and patterns in the brain, not
by our wishes, frameworks, or worldview.
Conscious ...
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Can we know anything about the "outside", if we are in a simulation?
The simulation hypothesis only appears plausible because of universal computation: the ability of universal computers to simulate any physical system including any other computer. There is a very wide ...
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
One of the seminal authors on “western” Marxism, Georg Lucaks, wrote a powerful (and angry!) critique on Existentialism in which he gives this broad classification of philosophies:
We see clearly ...
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Can we know anything about the "outside", if we are in a simulation?
If we look at simulators today, we dont actually compute the laws of physics precisely to simulate an environment. We use heuristics to approximate laws of physics, saving an awful lot of compute in ...
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