(October 31, 2021 at 12:49 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 30, 2021 at 4:33 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Personally, I think Hylomorphism is a crock; it's a band-aid that covers the gaps in our knowledge of efficient processes. But I admit that I'm pretty ignorant about it.
I appreciate and can respect your strong feelings sinceI know they are based on careful reflection. At the same time, I am suspicious of bankrupt theories issuing promissory notes. What you exclude by design up-front, never fits on the backend...whether it is idealism or materialism. As the joke goes No matter; never mind.
I still don't understand the issue.
If you have a bronze sculpture and you melt it down and make a cannon, you've changed the same matter to a different form. If you have a bit of matter in the form of a piece of paper, and you burn it, the same matter has changed to the form of smoke and ash.
Nothing about this is "a band-aid that covers the gaps" in anything. Nothing about it conflicts with what science tells us.
Has someone been suggesting that hylomorphism demands something else?