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Metaphysics is a philosophy of concurrence; the set of compatible and cross-supporting answers to all "What is the nature of?" questions.

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:04 pm Metaphysics is a philosophy of concurrence; the set of compatible and cross-supporting answers to all "What is the nature of?" questions.

Suffering is a real consequence, however suffering is an arbitrary and therefore illusory cause.

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:04 pm Metaphysics is a philosophy of concurrence; the set of compatible and cross-supporting answers to all "What is the nature of?" questions.

You cannot explain the nature of things. It is what it is. Therefore you are wrong.

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Metaphysics is a philosophy of concurrence; the set of compatible and cross-supporting answers to all "What is the nature of?" questions.
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You cannot explain the nature of things. It is what it is. Therefore you are wrong.
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But i can, and i do.

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:16 pm

bahman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:38 pm

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:04 pm Metaphysics is a philosophy of concurrence; the set of compatible and cross-supporting answers to all "What is the nature of?" questions.

You cannot explain the nature of things. It is what it is. Therefore you are wrong.

But i can, and i do.

What is the nature of mass? Why do things with mass absorb each other?

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You cannot explain the nature of things. It is what it is. Therefore you are wrong.
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But i can, and i do.
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What is the nature of mass? Why do things with mass absorb each other?
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Things are a set of boundary conditions in a mind. I do not have an exhaustive knowledge of all possible things. That's ridiculous. Also that's a physics question. This here is philosophy territory, ya varmint!

More directly, metaphysics is made of two realities: 1. The Abstract Reality, where perception is resolved by zero or infinity, or in terms of +/_ 0, and 2. The Empirical Reality, where perception is perceived in terms of +/_ some value. re: what Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico Politico Theologico Philosophicus” implies. This notion seems to make it imperative that Metaphysics be regarded as the umbrella under which is everything else of philosophy and science reside. -D.J.Sprague

Phoenix wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:10 am More directly, metaphysics is made of two realities: 1. The Abstract Reality, where perception is resolved by zero or infinity, or in terms of +/_ 0, and 2. The Empirical Reality, where perception is perceived in terms of +/_ some value. re: what Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico Politico Theologico Philosophicus” implies. This notion seems to make it imperative that Metaphysics be regarded as the umbrella under which is everything else of philosophy and science reside. -D.J.Sprague

Empirical Reality is covered by Science and other empirical-based framework and system of knowledge.

Metaphysics is confined to areas that are meta-empirical which cannot be verified empirically but yet possess some degrees of rationality, as such is not contradictory.
In this case Metaphysics cannot be related to reality but merely speculative and is nevertheless useful in various limited ways.

For example perfect and ideal things cannot be rationalized in abstraction and they can be useful to guide the empirical practices.
For example in Geometry we have unconditional perfect circles, squares, triangles but none of these can ever be found in the conditional empirical world, but these ideals are used as universal standards.

Metaphysics can be useful but we know its limits with the condition what is metaphysical cannot be claimed to be real at all.

From the above, it is Philosophy-proper that overrides [ as the umbrella] Science and Metaphysics to ensure they are adopted rationally and applied morally.

Advocate wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 2:39 am

bahman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:20 pm

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:16 pm But i can, and i do.

What is the nature of mass? Why do things with mass absorb each other?

Things are a set of boundary conditions in a mind. I do not have an exhaustive knowledge of all possible things. That's ridiculous. Also that's a physics question. This here is philosophy territory, ya varmint!

"What is mass?" is a question in the domain of philosophy of science.

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What is the nature of mass? Why do things with mass absorb each other?
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Things are a set of boundary conditions in a mind. I do not have an exhaustive knowledge of all possible things. That's ridiculous. Also that's a physics question. This here is philosophy territory, ya varmint!
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"What is mass?" is a question in the domain of philosophy of science.
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It's an empirical question. All languages are descriptive of reality, including the language of science.