What's the point of philosophy any more?

[The Grand Nudger]

Temperature isn't really a thing or a property of a thing except at the macro level, so let me skip that.

Could the same not then be said of some other thing..like your experience?  This is all I hope to achieve in a thread about the point of philosophy, lol.  Regardless of whether or not we agree that some x is truth, we could both agree that consistency is a base requirement of our positions on truth. This is something we learned from philosophy.

Electricity, though. . . that is something very interesting indeed.  We can catalogue massive amounts of data around and near it.  But the thing itself-- that is more elusive than ever before.

-and yet no less discernible or detectable.  Voltmeters work.  A painometer would be no different.  

It is my belief that science, good hard science, has reached a point where it's much better at telling us what reality ISN'T than what it IS, n'est-ce pas?  I can say that to a very large degree my ideas about mind and the Universe are closely connected to my first inquiries into QM maybe 30 or so years ago, and that newer science seems to be taking us farther and farther into a wilderness of uncertainty.

That may be, maybe we live in a fundamentally uncertain universe, at least on some level, even.  The truth of this..though, wouldn't and doesn't endanger the truth of things on what you referred to as "the macro level". Assuming fundamental uncertainty or randomness or even lack of cause at the smallest level of organization, at larger levels...many possibilities or probabilities reduce and reduce and reduce to the point of improbability or impossibility. Too many blocked roads..as it were, and the remaining open paths describe the distribution of the states of affairs that we then see.