Metaphysica: Sparks of New Metaphysics and the Limits of Explanatory Abstractions

Hauer, Thomas

Creator: Hauer, Thomas Publication: Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024
URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024041215385630652195

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Metaphysica

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Title:: Metaphysica

Publication:: Berlin: de Gruyter

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ISSN:: 1874-6373

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Sparks of New Metaphysics and the Limits of Explanatory Abstractions

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Author:: Hauer, Thomas

Title:: Sparks of New Metaphysics and the Limits of Explanatory Abstractions

Publication:: Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024

Language:: English

Information:: Abstract: Physical reality as an explanatory model is an abstraction of the mind. Every perceptual system is a user interface, like the dashboard of an aeroplane or the desktop of a computer. We do not see or otherwise perceive reality but only interface with reality. The user interface concept is a starting point for a critical dialogue with those epistemic theories that present themselves as veridical and take explanatory abstractions as ontological primitives. At the heart of any scientific model are assumptions about which things exist, how they are related, and how we can know them. Scientific models take our knowledge beyond ordinary experience toward explanatory abstractions. The main problem with veridical models lies in why we cannot express our theories and the explanatory abstractions associated with them other than through classical perceptual interface symbols. This study analyses the limits, possibilities and constraints of explanatory abstractions.

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Keywords:: knowledge ; reality ; model ; perception ; explanatory abstraction ; science

Classification:: Philosophie; Sonstiges

URN:: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024041215385630652195

Collection:: Philosophie; Sonstiges

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