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
Here reza, have a bone to gnaw on: "ontic differentiation is not itself anything ontic."
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @chrish420
Are you implying that distinguishing revisable ontic categories is an epistemic affair. If so, that's what I was implying.
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No Im implying that the act of distinguishing is exactly not an epistemic affair.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @chrish420
Radical nominalism perhaps? Any kind of scientific theory includes this kind of pointing towards external phenomena, including matter and the relations between matter. In order to compare our abstract categories with reality, we must "name" it.
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not unlike how a painter names different curves and shades through the act of imitating their reference.
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Replying to @NicolasDVillar1 @chrish420
This is neither the matter of how a painter names different curves, nor is it a matter of corroborating claims with reality. Science doesn't need the notion of reality to progress. In fact all such notions create a cognitive fog which is unhelpful? What do you mean by reality ...
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...Like some underlying stuff out there on to which we project structures (the most perceptive form of realism). Realism should designate neutral stuff, but then if it is about neutrality then why sweat over it?
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