#ontology — Public Fediverse posts

Is Bittner & Smith's formal ontology an account of being—or a method of accounting that presupposes substance as reality?

At what point does our methodology presuppose the answers we can derive?

The CoD asks this of every ontology, starting with itself.

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0370-bittner-smith.htm
#methodology #Ontology #Philosophy

Is Bittner & Smith's formal ontology an account of being—or a method of accounting that presupposes substance as reality?

At what point does our methodology presuppose the answers we can derive?

The CoD asks this of every ontology, starting with itself.

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0370-bittner-smith.htm
#methodology #Ontology #Philosophy

Is Bittner & Smith's formal ontology an account of being—or a method of accounting that presupposes substance as reality?

At what point does our methodology presuppose the answers we can derive?

The CoD asks this of every ontology, starting with itself.

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0370-bittner-smith.htm
#methodology #Ontology #Philosophy

Is Bittner & Smith's formal ontology an account of being—or a method of accounting that presupposes substance as reality?

At what point does our methodology presuppose the answers we can derive?

The CoD asks this of every ontology, starting with itself.

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0370-bittner-smith.htm
#methodology #Ontology #Philosophy

Is Bittner & Smith's formal ontology an account of being—or a method of accounting that presupposes substance as reality?

At what point does our methodology presuppose the answers we can derive?

The CoD asks this of every ontology, starting with itself.

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0370-bittner-smith.htm
#methodology #Ontology #Philosophy

The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/14/the-trouble-with-ockhams-razor/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.

#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor

The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/14/the-trouble-with-ockhams-razor/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.

#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor

The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/14/the-trouble-with-ockhams-razor/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.

#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor

The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/14/the-trouble-with-ockhams-razor/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.

#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor

The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/14/the-trouble-with-ockhams-razor/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.

#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor

#ColinMcGinn - Is #Consciousness #Irreducible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvIUEGmSy8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Metaphysics #Ontology #Irreducibility #Thinking #Qualia #Panpsychism #Materialism #Idealism #Dualism #Epiphenomenalism #Interactionism #Mysterian #Mysterianism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#ColinMcGinn - Is #Consciousness #Irreducible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvIUEGmSy8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Metaphysics #Ontology #Irreducibility #Thinking #Qualia #Panpsychism #Materialism #Idealism #Dualism #Epiphenomenalism #Interactionism #Mysterian #Mysterianism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#ColinMcGinn - Is #Consciousness #Irreducible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvIUEGmSy8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Metaphysics #Ontology #Irreducibility #Thinking #Qualia #Panpsychism #Materialism #Idealism #Dualism #Epiphenomenalism #Interactionism #Mysterian #Mysterianism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#ColinMcGinn - Is #Consciousness #Irreducible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvIUEGmSy8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Metaphysics #Ontology #Irreducibility #Thinking #Qualia #Panpsychism #Materialism #Idealism #Dualism #Epiphenomenalism #Interactionism #Mysterian #Mysterianism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#ColinMcGinn - Is #Consciousness #Irreducible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvIUEGmSy8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Metaphysics #Ontology #Irreducibility #Thinking #Qualia #Panpsychism #Materialism #Idealism #Dualism #Epiphenomenalism #Interactionism #Mysterian #Mysterianism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

@rabsinthe I don't know. You'd have to ask #Penrose. He's on the #Mysterian side of that debate, apparently. #Consciousness does seem to have an #irreducible #ontology in terms of 1st person experience but can nevertheless still be understood as having been caused by the brain. It is not clear why there is this dichotomy.

@rabsinthe I don't know. You'd have to ask #Penrose. He's on the #Mysterian side of that debate, apparently. #Consciousness does seem to have an #irreducible #ontology in terms of 1st person experience but can nevertheless still be understood as having been caused by the brain. It is not clear why there is this dichotomy.

@rabsinthe I don't know. You'd have to ask #Penrose. He's on the #Mysterian side of that debate, apparently. #Consciousness does seem to have an #irreducible #ontology in terms of 1st person experience but can nevertheless still be understood as having been caused by the brain. It is not clear why there is this dichotomy.