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RE: Science and Metaphysics
SUBTOPIC: What does contemporary metaphysics explore?
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In its simplest form (the least complex), explanation → Metaphysics delves into the nature of reality. Metaphysics explores the framework and structure of “what things are real” and “what components are necessary to define what is meant by real.” It also examines the aspects that make one thing inside the framework of existence - versus - nonexistence. Much of the understanding of Reality deals directly with the “philosophy of science” (that which can be explored utilizing the scientific method). In understanding Metaphysics, there must be some recognition that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) might lead to more than one solution, more than one method of determining probabilities, and - extended opinions. → Methodologies in Metaphysics all come form the structure behind that which stands up the philosophical treatises. Additionally, there are multiple approaches to the examination of causal relationships uncovered and the correlation with observations.
It should not be overlooked that Metaphysics has both a Spiritual content as well as the more Scientific Notions that intersect in the zone of reality. One does not trump the other. Neither can one prove nor disprove itself - or the other. In dealing with exchanges relative to the explanation of the Supernatural,
The idealization of the notions that determine which pathways the relations between types and kinds of possibilities take and classes of possibilities that can be considered must not be over-exaggerated. The logical content of the possibilities, from a Metaphysical view, can not be made by mere inductive logic without the reasonable construct necessary to stand up against justifying proof is derived by the Scientific Method. There must be a certain measure of “validity.” The validity, again from a metaphysical viewpoint, is exemplified by the necessity of the Cosmological Constant on one scale, versus the Principle of the First Cause.
References
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Theory and Reality, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 © 2003 by The University of Chicago Published 2003
Metaphysics - The Basics 2ed, by Michael Rea, © 2021 Published by Routledge, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Metaphysics and the Cognitive Sciences as Edited by Alvin I. Goldman and Brian P. McLaughlin, Published © Oxford University Press 2019 - 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016,
Six Easy Pieces (The Essentials of Physics) By Richard Feynman Copyright ©, 2011 by the California Institute of Technology, Published by Basic Books,
Consciousness and the Universe (Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind) Editors Sir Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, M.D., Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, OklahomaCopyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, Cosmology Science Publishers, Cambridge, MA.
What is consciousness?: (Three sages look behind the veil) Copyright 2016 © by Ervin Laszlo, Jean Houston, and Larry Dossey; -- First Edition, published by SelectBooks, Inc., New York, New York.
Most Respectfully,
R
SUBTOPIC: What does contemporary metaphysics explore?
⁜→ et al,
{ Truncated Position to Open the Discussion. }
In its simplest form (the least complex), explanation → Metaphysics delves into the nature of reality. Metaphysics explores the framework and structure of “what things are real” and “what components are necessary to define what is meant by real.” It also examines the aspects that make one thing inside the framework of existence - versus - nonexistence. Much of the understanding of Reality deals directly with the “philosophy of science” (that which can be explored utilizing the scientific method). In understanding Metaphysics, there must be some recognition that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) might lead to more than one solution, more than one method of determining probabilities, and - extended opinions. → Methodologies in Metaphysics all come form the structure behind that which stands up the philosophical treatises. Additionally, there are multiple approaches to the examination of causal relationships uncovered and the correlation with observations.
It should not be overlooked that Metaphysics has both a Spiritual content as well as the more Scientific Notions that intersect in the zone of reality. One does not trump the other. Neither can one prove nor disprove itself - or the other. In dealing with exchanges relative to the explanation of the Supernatural,
The idealization of the notions that determine which pathways the relations between types and kinds of possibilities take and classes of possibilities that can be considered must not be over-exaggerated. The logical content of the possibilities, from a Metaphysical view, can not be made by mere inductive logic without the reasonable construct necessary to stand up against justifying proof is derived by the Scientific Method. There must be a certain measure of “validity.” The validity, again from a metaphysical viewpoint, is exemplified by the necessity of the Cosmological Constant on one scale, versus the Principle of the First Cause.
References
_________________________________
Theory and Reality, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 © 2003 by The University of Chicago Published 2003
Metaphysics - The Basics 2ed, by Michael Rea, © 2021 Published by Routledge, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Metaphysics and the Cognitive Sciences as Edited by Alvin I. Goldman and Brian P. McLaughlin, Published © Oxford University Press 2019 - 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016,
Six Easy Pieces (The Essentials of Physics) By Richard Feynman Copyright ©, 2011 by the California Institute of Technology, Published by Basic Books,
Consciousness and the Universe (Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind) Editors Sir Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, M.D., Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, OklahomaCopyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, Cosmology Science Publishers, Cambridge, MA.
What is consciousness?: (Three sages look behind the veil) Copyright 2016 © by Ervin Laszlo, Jean Houston, and Larry Dossey; -- First Edition, published by SelectBooks, Inc., New York, New York.
Most Respectfully,
R
