RE: Actual Infinity in Reality?
February 15, 2018 at 8:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 8:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 15, 2018 at 7:20 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 1:30 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: IMHO logic is prescriptive since what is being described could not be otherwise. It transcends any particular circumstance and applies universally regardless of the type or degree of any particular thing.
That seems a little flip. Logic can be predictive but I don't see why you'd say prescriptive. Logic applied correctly and hooked up to solid premises, can yield a correct prediction. The logic dictates nothing, and its predictive power is entirely dependent upon a correct assessment of the salient factors. Logic is a tool, nothing more.
It’s not flip. It is calculated to so invert the order reality and model as to appear to create an basis to argue that not just some intelligent agent must have come up with with the model first and then made reality accordingly. From there he can slide greasily towards asserting that the agent must have later fucked his own mother to himself birth and then ended up nailed to a cross.
The fact we don’t know why certain models appear to describe all we’ve observed is not grounds to argue reality was made to order to conform to the model. It simply means we are not yet in a position to ascertain at a fundamental level why the model conforms so well to such reality as yet known.