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Metaphysical theories for why physics has the structure it has
The immediate answer is that the models we have for predicting reality are the way that they are (really: work the way that they work) because they are approximations to a more fundamental model or ...
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Metaphysical theories for why physics has the structure it has
The anthropic principle has been formulated originally without reference to the multiverse hypothesis.
Namely: If the physical conditions were a bit different, then there would be no intelligent life ...
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Metaphysical theories for why physics has the structure it has
Yes. There are theories that are metaphysical that explain the structure of the universe. One famous philosophical theory is the many world interpretation of quantum mechanics. From WP:
The many-...
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What is the lack of anything (including nothing)?
For example, if there is "nothing" (not anything) other than coffee (including all of the coffee's atoms, and external substances like sugar) 2 inches in front of you, the "nothing"...
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What is the lack of anything (including nothing)?
If you ask the question from your comment
my question is what exists in a space without any "thing" existing?
then an answer could be: In empty space exists spacetime, or more precisely:
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What is the lack of anything (including nothing)?
As per your exchange with Conifold, nothing in an absolute sense equates to what you were trying to signify by []. You cannot describe it because it has no properties, and I suspect (although I have ...
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What is the lack of anything (including nothing)?
Lack of anything is Emptiness , but it needs to be realised. You can’t have a coffee and claim that there is nothing. Having knowledge of Nothing or Emptiness is one thing and having the consciousness ...
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Can you demonstrate the Moore's "here is an hand" argument proving that you are not me?
Let's suppose extreme skepticism is true. Then all of the extreme skeptics are figments of your imagination, so why are you wasting your time arguing with them?
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Can you demonstrate the Moore's "here is an hand" argument proving that you are not me?
If you can refine a definition for what you are, then I'll do as you ask.
You observe a stream of thoughts?
Do you observe the observation of such too?
I guess you could observe both those things.
But ...
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Circularity in definition of Real
You say :
I'm having a hard time understanding the adjective 'real'.
Well, you should, because no-one knows.
For example, if you go to Wikipedia to find out what is "earth" you will end up ...
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Circularity in definition of Real
OP: How can we define Reality = {x: x ∈ Reality} and make it be informative?
Short answer: Actuality = {x: x ∈ Reality && x.exists}
Kant defines something as 'real' if it is possible, in ...
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Circularity in definition of Real
... to say that y is a real boy, is to say that y is a boy, and y is in the collection of things that are real.
You might find it useful to reflect on Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein: ...
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What is the definition of real?
"If a tree falls in a forest and no-one witnesses it, did it happen?"
Reality is that for which the answer is "yes".
Certainly a concept in philosophy exists for which the answer ...
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What is the definition of real?
What is the definition of real?
Strictly speaking, the definition of "real" is, and can only be, an ostensive definition.
You ostensively define what is real by pointing a finger at what ...
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What is the definition of real?
"Cogito, ergo sum."
I think, therefore I am. The only thing we can readily depend upon being real is ourselves.
Of course, this is tremendously unlikely and raises a whole host of other ...
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What is the definition of real?
I am going to assume that you mean real in the scientific sense. Classically science observes phenomena, not things in themselves, noumena. So, it could be argued that science does not allow us to ...
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What is the definition of real?
There is no one canonical and privileged definition of 'real'. However, in the most intuitive sense, it is anything that is independent of us and our existence and immediately apprehensible. This is ...
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What is the definition of real?
Paraphrasing Wikipedia on quantum mechanics, an object is real if outcomes of measurements of the object are well-defined prior to – and independent of – the measurements.
Considering your examples, ...
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Circularity in definition of Real
The statement that the set of real things contains real things obviously does not define "real".
I agree with Descartes, the overarching set is our Experience (all the things in our current ...
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Circularity in definition of Real
Some concepts are fundamental, in the sense that they cannot be explained in terms of anything simpler. For example, distance, time, mass and charge cannot be broken down into more fundamental ideas. ...
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Difficulty finding real life examples of the bad reasons fallacy, is this fallacy committed often?
I think that I may just have witnessed a bad reasons fallacy. In yet another JFK assassination documentary, someone stated that the wound in JFK's throat was obviously an entry wound, and the wound to ...
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Same vs identical vs equal objects
Your question is about the use of English, rather than philosophy.
Each of the words you have asked about has a range of meanings and they overlap in part.
Identical has the narrowest range of ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Heidegger's phenomenology is knocked sideways by Derrida's deconstruction, putting paid to a certain truth. In Heidegger's phenomenology beings come from Being and truth is the truth of Being. The ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
One way around your conundrum is to consider true to be a label invented by humans that is applied conventionally in certain circumstances. For example, in mathematics the label true is applied to ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Yes, there definitely is!
At least:
"You asked that question on this site". (At some "period in time"...)
("As long (...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Objectivity arises , changes and vanishes.
For example - consider the objective truth , food or fuel is always required for life or a machine to function properly. The truth is objective as it is true ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
I think objective absolutely exists. Whether we understand things or not, they will go on existing, they will be governed by laws of the universe.
One might say, well how do you know the laws of ...
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Is Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" just the "Allegory of the Cave"?
I did not read it very thoroughly, but my takeaway from it was, that it's not about the "source". It's kind of more about the motivation for doing things and how you place yourself in the ...
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