(August 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm)theVOID Wrote: Making a claim based on unproven assertions and untestable assumptions is not a reasonable hypothesis, especially when your argument contains less reality and more practically useless conceptual descriptors to explain properties that may or may not exist.You would have to actually point to what you mean with "practically useless conceptual descriptors" in my argument.
For instance, how is it useless to distinguish between a potential reality and an actual reality?
It might be potential for lake to evaporate, since water can evaporate given enough energy; but does that make it so that the lake, right now, has actually evaporated? No, because that is only potential, not actual, and for it to become actual, it would require a certain amount of energy (actuality).
Whereas, you might look up at a or climb up a tall scyscraper building or a mountain and, does that mean that the scyscraper or mountains existence is only potential, not actual? No, because it actually exists, though it didn't exist always, it was a potential reality before it became actual, and since it now is actual, it's not just a potential but an actual thing now.
I gave also Heisenbergs example in quantum mechanics, of the probability function, which represents several potentialities out of which a certain potentiality will become actual; and the act of observation and subsequent wavefunction collapse, in which a certain potentiality becomes actual, and not certain other potentiality which remained merely potential.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton