On 6/25/2020 11:29 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 25 Jun 2020, at 20:02, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 6/25/2020 8:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
From your irreducible material universe in which you seem to believe?
Where did I say "irreducible"? I'm not in the belief business. I'm in the
finding out business.
A scientist can only propose a theory, and means of verification, and a finite
number of evidences for it. Someone doubting the interest of the theory must
either refute it, or find something simpler, or something with wider range of
explanations. I think we agree on all this.
No we don't. It's not sufficient to be simpler unless it also has the same or greater
scope of predictions that are at least as accurate. "Explanations" are a dime
dozen. Prediction is the gold standard.
Prediction of what? You seem again to confuse physics and metaphysics, which is
the Aristotelian metaphysics.
On the contrary, you are the one claiming to discover physics via
metaphysics...but never making a prediction.
Practically, we predict only number relation. Prediction is necessary, as I
said, but a simplet theory with a greater range of explanation is always better
in the fundamental science,
Then you should be happy with, "God did it." which explains everything
and anything...perfect for everythingism.
Brent
and that is the case for Mechanism in metaphysics, and perhaps in physics too
in some far future. In metaphysics, physicalism is basically incomplete, if not
refuted, as it needs to abandon Mechanism, (and thus Descartes, Darwin, etc.
Bruno
Brent
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