On 20 May 2014 06:47, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another major logical problem with this, I mentioned a while back in an > earlier thread. The whole position that matter is non-primary or non-real > or whatever, is effectively trivial and redundant UNLESS and UNTIL that > hypotheses produces major scientific developments. Until then it has the > value of "seed idea" simply because, it does not tell us about something > that is therefore different in physical law as we find it. Therefore > notionally we can accept the hypothesis but immediately having done so, we > have to put in place where physical law was until just a moment ago, a > proxy object with identical features. So it's meaningless for just itself. > It needs to produce or "hello proxy, or are you the other one?" >
I don't think major scientific developments tend to come from metaphysical assumptions, either the assumption of materialism or whatever, do they? It's all models and hypotheses at least until some of the assumptions get reified. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
