(March 2, 2020 at 4:24 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: Hydrogen atoms are not actually the 'Cause' for any sun. Other factors also apply.
Hydrogen atoms are included in what Aristotle called the "material cause." You're right that other factors are necessary.
Quote:There might be a 'Clear' definition for a diety. having such a thing fdoes not actually make such a thing exist. We hca clear defintions for Unicorns, Pixies, Leannan Shyde, etc... such things are not beholden to exist because we have definitions for them.
Yes, that's true. I am only claiming, contra Rahm127, that such definitions exist.
Quote:Our minds can not define reality into existance Bel. Reality will do what ever the fek it wants and dayum hominids to extinction if randomness descides it be so.
That's right. Nor have I argued otherwise.
Quote:As for your "For uranium to decay.." bit? It just has to be a certain isotope of Uranum to fall apart at a certain frequency. 'Depleted' uranium still falls apart. So does Throium. They just do it at such a way/level/ 'Time rate' as to be rather seeming 'inert' to our monkey brains.
Right. Though there appears to be no cause in the modern sense, the laws of nature apply, and those isotopes have ways that they are, which are not other ways. Therefore, in the way that Aristotle used the word, there are causes.
Quote:Now, as for the 'Why is reality the way it is?' ? Yah, that's a question, in-it?
Science can tell us what the laws are, but not the why. This is the field of metaphysics. It starts with observations of the world, and uses logic to attempt explanations that cannot be included in science.