I can believe that quarks are ultimately responsible, but I’m not obligated to do so by a priori logical necessity.
This is a slippery concept. With some tiny probability anything is possible, even that 2+2=3. When philosophers argue for what is logically possible and what isn’t, they implicitly apply an anthropomorphic threshold. Think of that picture with almost-the-same atoms but completely different message.
The extent to which something is a priori impossible is also probabilistic. You say “impossible”, but mean “overwhelmingly improbable”. Of course it’s technically possible that the territory will play a game of supernatural and support a fundamental object behaving according to a high-level concept in your mind. But this is improbable to an extent of being impossible, a priori, without need for further experiments to drive the certainty to absolute.
Of course it’s technically possible that the territory will play a game of supernatural and support a fundamental object behaving according to a high-level concept in your mind. But this is improbable to an extent of being impossible, a priori, without need for further experiments to drive the certainty to absolute.
Not quite sure what you’re saying here. If you’re saying:
1)”Entities in the map will not magically jump into the territory,” Then I never disagreed with this. What I disagreed with is your labeling certain things as obviously in the map and others obviously in the territory. We can use whatever labels you like: I still don’t know why irreducible entities in the territory are “incredibly improbable prior to any empirical evidence.”
2)”The territory can’t support irreducible entities,” you still haven’t asserted why this is “incredibly improbable prior to any empirical evidence.”
This is a slippery concept. With some tiny probability anything is possible, even that 2+2=3. When philosophers argue for what is logically possible and what isn’t, they implicitly apply an anthropomorphic threshold. Think of that picture with almost-the-same atoms but completely different message.
The extent to which something is a priori impossible is also probabilistic. You say “impossible”, but mean “overwhelmingly improbable”. Of course it’s technically possible that the territory will play a game of supernatural and support a fundamental object behaving according to a high-level concept in your mind. But this is improbable to an extent of being impossible, a priori, without need for further experiments to drive the certainty to absolute.
Not quite sure what you’re saying here. If you’re saying:
1)”Entities in the map will not magically jump into the territory,” Then I never disagreed with this. What I disagreed with is your labeling certain things as obviously in the map and others obviously in the territory. We can use whatever labels you like: I still don’t know why irreducible entities in the territory are “incredibly improbable prior to any empirical evidence.”
2)”The territory can’t support irreducible entities,” you still haven’t asserted why this is “incredibly improbable prior to any empirical evidence.”