So that for me is the meaning of metaphysics. The move from the particular to the universal. From the concrete to the abstract. From that which is true of some things to that which is true of all things. — apokrisis
but it leaves lower level intricacies inaccessible - particularly in real and complex analysis, the latter being very important in QT. — jgill
In what sense inaccessible? Do you mean that generalisation actually ends up cutting its connection to the particular? That shouldn’t happen if it is being done right — apokrisis
Schema Theory and the Dynamical Systems Theory are the predominant behavior theories that address how the nervous system produces a movement.
The Generalized Motor Program Theory (GMP) or Schema Theory and the Dynamical Systems Theory are the predominant behavior theories that address how the nervous system produces a movement. The debate of movement scientist and the contrasts of these theories centers on whether movement is created through hierarchical control in the nervous system (i.e., cortical control) or if movement control is distributed throughout cortical, subcortical, spinal, and even musculoskeletal levels of the nervous system. While compromise between these two theories may be possible, each theory has its respective adamant supporters who will argue for the support of one over the other. In this assignment, you will evaluate these theories to determine which theory you believe is the more plausible explanation.
You speak often of systems theory, and in math that begins with dz/dot=f(z,t) in the complex plane. Here the levels of vagueness are low, and chaos may grow out of these scenarios. — jgill
You must have noticed that I used "philosophy" within quotation marks. This indicates "philosophy-like" or "pseudo-philosophy" or even "actually, not a philosophy". And this because the word "philosophy" (quotation marks have a different meaning here) is quite abused. You just have to think how often you hear or read "My philosophy of/on/for this and that is ..." referring not to life, but to trivial things in life. And I just gave some examples of such trivial things.What would a philosophy of reading or cooking look like? — apokrisis
Is metaphysics a method of inquiry aimed at some goal, or is it merely a history of intellectual accidents? — apokrisis
I'd say that metaphysics -- especially post-Aristotle -- is more about justifying ethics than it is about truth, — Moliere
I'm specifically referring to late antiquity — Moliere
OK. I thought you were replying to my point that metaphysics speaks to a particular logic of being rather than being some kind of unmoored, pluralistic, history of free speculation — apokrisis
The phase you are calling “metaphysics as ethics” is just the application of this style of transcending inquiry to the practical job of forging a new technology of self. Ideas about justice, virtue, balance, etc, were the new universals by which society could start to organise itself and so scale a rational view of being. — apokrisis
On the whole I take the Aristotelian meta-philosophy, as I understand you to be pursuing, to be indicative of modern institutional philosophy: the quest for the ultimate answers about existence is a question for those informed of the sciences, trained by the institutions of knowledge -- themselves politically aligned to the elite of the world, training the future leaders of tomorrow. It very much fits along the lines of the Ivy League model of philosophy. And, internationally, a state college provides opportunities (hence why people travel internationally to attend them). — Moliere
So the question as to whether metaphysics subsumes ethics or ethics subsumes metaphysics is just another example of the interchangeability of those "above and below" perspectives, and the tension of the hierarchical problem of the aspirational "higher" that so bedevils and illuminates human life. — Janus
But then … the second law of thermodynamics. Pull back the curtain and once more we see who is boss. :smile: — apokrisis
Looking back, I've moved from seeing philosophy as serious play towards seeing it as plumbing. They're not mutually exclusive, though. — Banno
Serious play, plumbing -- yes! and.... — Moliere
I think you are mixing up Greek metaphysics with Roman civics here. — apokrisis
Is metaphysics a method of inquiry aimed at some goal, or is it merely a history of intellectual accidents? — apokrisis
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