On Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 12:27:31 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:15 PM Bruno Marchal <mar...@ulb.ac.be > <javascript:>> wrote: > > >>You can't do metaphysics with a scientific attitude, if you could it >>> wouldn't be metaphysics, it would just be physics. Metaphysics means >>> unscientific speculation about physics. >> >> > > *>That is why I prefer the term theology.* >> > > That's pretty silly, metaphysics is a vastly better word to use in > philosophical speculation. Both metaphysics and theology are unscientific > but theology necessarily implies God while metaphysics doesn't. > > >> > *Of course I always mean “fundamental science”.* >> > > Theology isn't science, fundamental or otherwise. > > >> *> The original question of the greeks* [......... >> > > Sorry, I didn't hear what you said after that, I fell asleep. > > John K Clark > > >
Those in the pragmatist tradition of *Richard Rorty* [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rorty ] (if a decade is enough for a "tradition" to be established) might say if physics (or scientific theories generally) is [useful] fiction, metaphysics is fictional criticism. - pt -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
