...of phlogiston nor atoms are "metaphysical" postulates, and do not presume...that the entities postulated have "metaphysical existence" (insofar as I understand...ve also been arguing that "metaphysical existence" is a noncognitive concept...no need for any further metaphysical postulates, and they can serve...different criteria for evaluating theories (metaphysical or scientific), then I'd...

... may be postulated to be fundamental. A primordial persisting order is as conceivable and permissible, metaphysically speaking, as primordial disorder. What compares this "Now" with a past (that no longer... makes a judgement that change took place? There are no theories, scientific or metaphysical, in the absence of cognitive beings. All theories are produced and evaluated by such ...

... to 'exist'. Your introduction of "metaphysical correctness" seems something of a ... can be said to 'exist'" "metaphysical existence" and "conventional existence"? What ... that the entities postulated have "metaphysical existence" (insofar as I understand...truth conditions. We make no metaphysical claims about this postulated external...is not the role of metaphysics to say what exists; it...

... is the difference between a "metaphysical" object alleged to be correlated ... entity is or is not "metaphysically correct" or incorrect. (The question ... entities was postulated instead. No metaphysical claims are implied, either by ... own experience. The notion of "metaphysical existence" is a misguided attempt ... be noncognitive. But any such metaphysical claims will be logically possible...

... is no need to postulate metaphysical objects that correlate with conceptual ... is the difference between a "metaphysical" object alleged to be correlated...theoretical entity corresponds with any "metaphysical" entity, or is one. It...world. Yes. The question of metaphysical solipsism is without a 'sense...default condition of unthinkingly taking metaphysical solipsism to be false (without...

...practices, observations, devices, and language games). Metaphysically, "no passage of time" would kill ... an empirical and lingusitic context, forbidding metaphysical extrapolation or rendering it meaningfully impotent.... to asserting something positive-sounding about metaphysics in order to battle beliefs he ..., IEP Whitehead apparently entered the metaphysics fray to combat what he considered ...

...might* be entertained as constituting some metaphysically external domain. The "only" is based ... no truth conditions for claims of "metaphysical" existence, which renders that use cognitively ... the whole idea of substance-based metaphysics into question. Ok. No disagreement on ...sun shines? Nothing postulated to be metaphysically external to the experienced world explains...

.... These fit "neutron star" very nicely. There are objects that are optically dark, have accretion disks, and NO surface interactions. These fit "black hole" very nicely. Dense is one thing; infinitely, metaphysically dense is quite another. I don't think you are dense, or at least that dense. But keep at it. It is quite clear that you don't realize a "sheet" of spacetime with ...

...this? Logical?" I'm afraid you're going to say, "They cannot be metaphysically external." So I'd have two further questions: 1. What does the "metaphysically" denote? How does an entity which is metaphysically external differ from one which is external, but not metaphysically external? 2. Why can't atoms be "metaphysically external"?

... postulating externals evidence or entail metaphysical realism, because there is no...of linguistic convention, not of metaphysics). Or perhaps better would be...is not a matter of metaphysics. Agreed. Theoretical entities conceived in...a rejection of solipsism. "Something metaphysically external causes lightning" is a...I didn't add the "metaphysical" because it adds nothing to...