On 11/8/2012 6:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
There are no accidents in Platonia.
There are also perfect parabolas, because
Platonia is the realm of necessary logic,
of pure reason and math, which are inextended.
Hi Roger,
There are no accidents in and all is perfect and there is no
extension or time Platonia because we define Platonia that way. But if
we are to take Platonia as our basic ontological theory we have a
problem, we are unable to explain the necessity of the imperfect world
of matter that has time and is imperfect. It is a utopia that, like all
utopias, is put up as a means to avoid the facts of our mortal coil. I
am interested in ontologies that imply the necessity of the imperfect
and not a retreat to some unaccessible perfection.
Thrown earthly objects are extended and
thus fly contingently, since spin, humidity and
dust particles can create flight imperfections
and no measurements of their flights can be perfect.
I am also told that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
does not depend on scale.
Roger Clough, [email protected]
11/8/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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Time: 2012-11-07, 19:45:05
Subject: Re: Communicability
On 11/7/2012 1:19 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 11/7/2012 5:52 AM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Again: we are still left without an explanation as to how the accidental
coincidence of a Platonic Truth and an actual fact of the world occurs.
Why do you write 'accidental'? Platonia is our invention to describe classes
of facts by abstracting away particulars.
Brent
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Hi Brent,
It seems to be that when we abstract away the particulars we lose the
ability to talk about particulars.
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Onward!
Stephen
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Onward!
Stephen
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