Killjoy:
Potential and possibility seem to describe the same thing.
Potential and possibility seem to describe the same thing.
A Question of Possibility
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And right there is the reason that I don't like "philosophy". It begins to go off on weird, odd, strange, bullshit symantics as if it's really "philosophy". It ain't!! It's just playing with words and trying to form them into something that is not, and never was, intended .......and then arguing endlessly using the very same words to do nothing but continue the argument.
Wasted, foolish effort ...and not worthy of anyone's attention except .....dare I say it? ..philosophers!
Baron Max
The problem with that is you limit the possibilities of each object to known interactions, when objects obviously have unknown properties in other, potential systems. It is safer and more accurate to only talk about the properties of known things in known systems.
Also, there are emergent behaviors that are unpredictable until a certain number of things are together, or are in a particular system.
And yet Philosophers described sciences before they were discovered, inspired art before it was conceived, gave birth to the enlightenment and tempered the minds of Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, Da Vinci, really countless other "useful" persons.
I disagree. Most of those individuals were "scientists" and "do-ers", not talkers of continual bullshit and worthless play-games of symantics.
Baron Max
"Not only the god play dice, but the dice are loaded."
Word-game and semantics.
All of the above were philosophers. Yes they were other things, too.
Mostly philosopher-only people inspire others. Perhaps your right - on first glance fairly unimportant sands to conquering minds pebbles, to geniuses marbles, to the huge rocks of revolutionaries. They do however, fill in the spaces quite nicely.
Still isn't it quite nice there are people in this day and age, are paid only to "think" and perhaps write it down. Nothing else? I love it.
Anyone can be a philosopher, so few even try.
Word-game and semantics.
All of the above were philosophers. Yes they were other things, too.
Mostly philosopher-only people inspire others. Perhaps your right - on first glance fairly unimportant sands to conquering minds pebbles, to geniuses marbles, to the huge rocks of revolutionaries. They do however, fill in the spaces quite nicely.
Still isn't it quite nice there are people in this day and age, are paid only to "think" and perhaps write it down. Nothing else? I love it.
Anyone can be a philosopher, so few even try.
"Anyone can be a philosopher, so few even try." How is that supposed to make sense?
For my part, causality. As far as we can observe, possibilities don't just materialise. Things come into existence due to the actions of things previously in existence.
Everything in this world is cyclical. All are seeds to that which gives rise to a new substance. Our atoms which once made our bodies will be part of the ground, trees, air, and than a star.
RoyLennigan
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Possibility derives from the ability for recombination. As it seems that there are infinite amounts of recombination available in this universe, we say that there are infinite possibilities. Recombination can occur in forms of types of matter or energy interactions.
These possibilities do not 'exist' per se. Either that or they are all existing at once.
Your mind and in the universe.