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14948 | To be is to be a real pattern [Ladyman/Ross] |
Full Idea: To be is to be a real pattern. ....Real patterns carry information about other real patterns. ...It's patterns all the way down. | |
From: J Ladyman / D Ross (Every Thing Must Go [2007], 4.4) | |
A reaction: I've plucked these bleeding from context, but they are obviously intended as slogans. Is there pattern 'inside' an electron? Are electrons all exterior? |
14942 | Only admit into ontology what is explanatory and predictive [Ladyman/Ross] |
Full Idea: We reject any grounds other than explanatory and predictive utility for admitting something into our ontology. | |
From: J Ladyman / D Ross (Every Thing Must Go [2007], 3.7.3) | |
A reaction: Now you are talking. This is something like my thesis (which I take to be Aristotelian) - that without the drive for explanation we wouldn't even think of metaphysics, and so metaphysics should be understood in that light. |