Anyone thinking wholes and parts are ontic categories is either a fraudester or a stupid philosopher (i.e. doubly fraudster). There is no such ontic categories. You construct new wholes to reveal the underlying fragments, you glue the fragments to uncover new wholes ad infinitum.
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And yes this is one of those pieces I have in mind among some others:https://jacobitemag.com/2019/07/15/disintegration/ …
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
do you actually think that's an argument against the physics this piece bases itself on?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade
You mean that the core thesis of the piece is against the principles of modern physics / scientific theories?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade
Can you elaborate a bit on this? I don't want to give you some vague response.
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universal expansion leads to galaxies being too far apart to be seen from each other. the rest of the argument follows from this.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade
I think ou are treating expansion as a metaphysical thesis, not a claim made within a scientific theory. For science such ontic or ontological prioritizations are trivial and misguided. They are essentially the fruits of theories and yes, they are rival theories in this case.
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The point is that we should avoid such prioritizations, because even if they were, they obstruct the progress of science i.e. how things hang together in the broadest possible sense.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade
This is not just about the hypostatization of parts and wholes. Even the notion of reality is fundamentally unhelpful. This is why scientists hardly ever use such concepts.
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