How would the two of you respond to someone who invoked the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument and used it to argue that since this implies the existence of abstracts, therefore physicalism is false?
To Krauss, the idea of the universe as a quantum fluctuation isn’t exactly new, Edward Tryon first hypothesized it in 1973. But in his model both the energy and the sum total of certain other discreet quantities must all be zero. To do this he postulated the existence of equal amounts of antimatter and matter. How does your model get around this, or does it?
What’s the two of yours opinion on James Ladyman and Don Ross’s Ontic Structural Realism? (Dawkins was in a workshop with Ross, which is why I ask)
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How would the two of you respond to someone who invoked the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument and used it to argue that since this implies the existence of abstracts, therefore physicalism is false?
To Krauss, the idea of the universe as a quantum fluctuation isn’t exactly new, Edward Tryon first hypothesized it in 1973. But in his model both the energy and the sum total of certain other discreet quantities must all be zero. To do this he postulated the existence of equal amounts of antimatter and matter. How does your model get around this, or does it?
What’s the two of yours opinion on James Ladyman and Don Ross’s Ontic Structural Realism? (Dawkins was in a workshop with Ross, which is why I ask)
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