The creators of physics sought to construct it like Euclidean geometry, where a few mathematically formulated axioms, laws, opens the possibility an unlimited number theorems, conclusions concerning specific situations, verified by special observations, experiments. idea this program cognition, not necessarily quite consciously, arose from what may be called Biblical Platonism, synthesis Pythag...

Abstract Let Nomological Bound be the thesis that there is nothing objectively possible beyond what physically possible. has struck many as a live hypothesis. Nevertheless, in this article I provide novel argument against it. Yet even though claim false, argue boundaries of objective possibility can still characterized intimately terms physical necessity. This philosophically significant, for o...

What is Love? Is it identifiable? or learned by living? It not as easy one might think to give a coherent answer these questions. Scientists, thinkers and artists have defined love in different ways tried explain it. Scientists say that the motive of begins with birth. This an important starting point terms revealing source love. From this view, will contribute our saying existence first human ...

This is the concluding paper in my series [Wells (2011c, d)] on the metaphysical problem of knowledge representation. Its objective is the statement of the general problem to be solved in order to develop mathematical solutions for mind-body knowledge representation. With such a problem definition, the transition from metaphysics to empirical science proper is made. The task of formulating spec...

The metaphor of a branching tree of future possibilities has a number of important philosophical and logical uses. In this paper we trace this metaphor through some of its uses and argue that the metaphor works the same way in physics as in philosophy. We then give an overview of formal systems for branching possibilities, viz., branching time and (briefly) branching space-times. In a next step...

Disputes are multiplied, as if every thing was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain. A puzzle about progress in philosophy In what does philosophical progress consist? Let us start by distinguishing, by attention to certain extrema, two ways in which progress in a given field might proceed. The first presupposes a single standard para...

Why care about what emergence is, and whether there is any? To start, many complex entities of our acquaintance—tornados, plants, people and the like—appear to be composed of less complex entities, and to have features which depend, one way or another, on features of their composing entities. Yet such complex entities also appear to be to some extent autonomous, both ontologically and causally,...

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