> On 14 May 2019, at 02:04, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 5/13/2019 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> It is Bruce who accuses Platonism of being a failure, even though he is not >> able to name any point where physicalism succeeds and Platonism fails. It >> goes without saying that all of modern science is compatible with Platonism. > > Because Platonism is theology. It's all "explanation" and no > prediction...just like "everythingism”.
That is plain false. > It has never succeeded anywhere because it never puts itself to the test. It has. I thought that physics refutes mechanism, until I discovered Everett. > It remains in a perfect Platonic world in which ours is a corruption or a > random incident. You show here you have not read or try to understand. Of course, it is the opposite. The physical reality become full of laws, becoming probably being laws, where physics can never decide if it is physical laws, or geographical laws. > As Sean Carroll puts it, "All human progress has been made by studying the > shadows on the cave wall.” We start from that, but the real progress is when we assume a reality beyond that, like Einstein (that is: even the Aristotelian agree on this). The progress is made by relating the shadows through first principles and equations. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/60b25baf-1b5e-07bb-3e1b-686c2cb6a8be%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7BCF6E5C-A9F0-4F00-8625-EB3AB89094BB%40ulb.ac.be.
