John S., List: >From a Peircean standpoint, if mathematics is the science of possibility (1ns) and physics is the science of actuality (2ns), what is the science of regularity or habit (3ns)? Or is 3ns perhaps implicit in *any *notion of science that includes the study of *patterns *and *processes*? Where does philosophy--with its departments of Phaneroscopy, Normative Science (including normative logic/semeiotic), and Metaphysics--fit into this picture?
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:10 AM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Summary: The topmost level of an ontology should make one fundamental > distinction that has an open-ended range of implications: > > 1. Physics is the science of actuality. It includes everything > observable by any means as well as the space-time that contains > everybody and everything. Its quantified variables refer to > patterns of actuality in existing things and processes and/or > any regions of space-time surrounding or adjacent to them. > > 2. Pure mathematics is the science of open-ended possibility. > Its quantified variables range over unbounded infinities > of patterns that may or may not exist in actuality. The > infinities of mathematics include all actual patterns that > have existed, do exist, or will exist plus infinitely more > that may never exist in actuality. >
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