John, List
Yes! Like a weasel! Anyway I didn´t understand, what is wrong with a weasel. I propose it for mascot. Ok, only this thread´s one.
03. August 2021 um 22:18 Uhr
"John F. Sowa"
wrote:
Helmut> "Emergence" for me seems to be a not yet logically fully explained phenomenon.
John, Edwina, Jon A., List
"Emergence" for me seems to be a not yet logically fully explained phenomenon. My temporal assumption (not belief, in which I don´t believe) is, that it is individuation and downscaling. Meaning for the example of emergence of life, the universe is a living organism
Edwina, List
As often, this discussion merely is a misunderstanding of a term, in this case "explanation". I was arguing in a way, that might be understood such, like that an explanation only is valuable, and could justifiedly be called "explanation", if it is complete, including close
Edwina, List
Nothing is problematic about that, the way you have put it. It surely is a fact of reality, and of empirical observation. But I think, there always should be mentioned what you have added, the WHY-question.
Jon´s weasel-reference I do understand. There are galore pseudoscientific
Edwina, List
I am absolutely not against using the term, but against stopping at for example: "Life has emerged due to nature´s intention to form higher complexity". This would be using something, in this case "intention", that is a trait of life. So it is a tautology, like Peirce´s
Jon, Edwina, List
It becomes a weasel, if people use it for explaining something else, instead of treating it as a yet not fully explained phenomenon. Then it is like the "dormative virtue" of Opium (Peirce). A pseudo-explanation.
Best
Helmut
02. August 2021 um 18:48 Uhr
"Jon
