RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 21, 2019 at 10:50 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 10:53 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 21, 2019 at 10:42 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(March 21, 2019 at 10:36 pm)bennyboy Wrote: —why such a framework exists at all.
Maybe that’s an inherently faulty question to even be asking.
Sure. You can say something like "You can't ask what caused the Big Bang, because causality is time-dependent, and the math breaks down in a singularity, which means there was no such thing as time before time. Asking what caused it is a broken question."
That's fine, but the fact is that there is a Universe, and we'd like to know why it exists. Saying that because a question clearly cannot be answered, the question is faulty, smells to me a lot like a philosophical Goddidit.
(March 21, 2019 at 10:48 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Science doesn't discover meta anything. Metaphysics is meant to be different than empirical whatsits. If anything is empirical, it's just physics. If we are not capable of making knowledge statements without reference -to- the empirical..to "discovery" then we have no valid conception of a meta anything..again, it's just physics.
Infinite regress is not a problem for physics, it's a problem for a system of generating answers that relies on a terminus that may not exist, an issue for an empty set.
Right. So if you have a question which is clearly metaphysical, then the study of physics is not going to answer it. Physics is bounded by the Universe, so if you ask questions about why or how physics is a thing, you can't use physics to answer that question.