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Hey everyone, Nathan here, absurd being
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and video six in this series on Mayor
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Sue. We're going to be looking at
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two ideas basically hyper chaos and the
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necessitarian inference or also and
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probably more focusing on the
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frequentialist implication which kind of
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goes along with that.
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Uh so yeah, we're just going to look at
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at the ideas, some of the arguments in
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detail that Mayor Sue puts forward
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regarding these two concepts and then um
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analyze them, see if they see if they
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stack up. So we'll start off with hyper
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So the arguments that Mayasu uses
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regarding hyper chaos are essentially to
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try and rein that idea back a bit.
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We've gone he's kind of gone too far
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with what he was trying to do here. So
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his principle of factuality
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putting forward the idea that the
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absolute is pure contingency. Another
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[clears throat] way he puts that the
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principle of factiality, the principle
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And the basic idea is that anything can
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happen at any time for no reason at all.
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So we have hyper chaos and that doesn't
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work for Mayu because he wants to ground
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scientific discourse in something
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certain in an absolute.
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And we we've he's gotten an absolute but
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the nature of this absolute is such that
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it brings about this notion of hyper
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chaos which doesn't ground which can't
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ground scientific discourse. So he wants
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to rein it back and he's going to put
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two limitations on hyper chaos that he
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follow. And the the two limitations are
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basically going to bring it back in line
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with the weak version of correlationism
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which was Kant's version uh which leaves
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us with something which is in itself
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which is unknowable but thinkable
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and um and yeah so the the limitations
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that we're going to look at here kind of
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bring bring the this notion of hyper
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chaos or the principle of factuality
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back into kind of a place which is
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solid instead of this rampant hyper
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So the first limitation
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is the notion that a a contradictory
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entity is absolutely impossible.
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And Mayasu's argument goes like this. If
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an entity were contradictory,
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it would be necessary
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because there would be no alterity
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for it which it could become.
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And the idea behind this is that what
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Mayasu is saying is if a contradictory
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it couldn't lapse into non-being because
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even if it happened to not be,
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it would still be in accordance with its
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paradoxical or contradictory essence.
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So that's the argument
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and the point of this is to validate the
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principle of non-contradiction which
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you're if you remember was one of the
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um ideas behind K's thing in itself.
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So trying to validate this principle of
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non-contradiction um a contradictory
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entity is impossible.
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If something sounds a little bit off
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with that as I've described it, um,
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you're not alone in thinking that
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this is all just semantics. It's all
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just word play I think. And the reason
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is that contradiction
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does not apply to entities themselves or
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as Mayasu says they're their essences.
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In other words, talk of a contradictory
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is conceptual nonsense. And that's
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exactly what Mayasu is trying to put
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forward here. The notion that a con a
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contradictory entity is absolutely
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impossible. But right from the start
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there, if you if you just direct your
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focus on that on that expression, that
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it's it's easy to let it slide and kind
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of um go go with it from there. Go with
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it as Mayasu puts it forward. But if you
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actually take a moment to think about
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it, we know what contradictory is and we
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know what entity is. So, we know what
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the words all mean here,
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but they've been put together in such a
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way that they just don't make any sense.
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That and that's the trick here. That
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that's why it sounds plausible because
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we know what these words mean
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So, we think there that he's saying
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something meaningful, but actually if
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you put them together, you don't get
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anything meaningful. A contradictory
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entity. What What could that even mean?
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Contradiction applies to things like
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ideas, to propositions, claims, beliefs
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not to existing things themselves or the
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So it it's contradictory, say, to
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believe in evolution and creationism at
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the same time, to think that they're
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both true in some way. Or it's a
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contradiction to say to claim that I
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took the bus to work and that I drove to
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work as well. So contradictions about
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claims or beliefs about certain things,
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not about things themselves. It just
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doesn't mean anything to say this is a
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contradictory entity.
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And you might think about this, this
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might come to mind. What about a square
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circle? Isn't that an example of a
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contradictory entity? But the circle is
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not contradictory there.
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What's contradictory is the claim that
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the circle is square, i.e. that it has
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In other words, it's a claim about the
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predicates of the circle, the properties
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of the circle, not the circle itself,
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the essence of the circle, whatever that
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might mean. So, this is the problem with
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this. A contradictory entity is is
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impossible. May sue claims, but a
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contradictory entity just doesn't it
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doesn't mean anything.
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So there's so that that's the first the
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first claim and the first problem with
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it or and the the problem with that
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first claim. The second claim uh of May
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to try and limit this hyper chaos he
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calls the thesis of the there is
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and basically the idea with this he
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wants to say that he wants to emphasize
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that there is an absolute. So even
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his principle of factuality gave us or
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gave him an absolute that was
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possibility facticity. This opened the
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door to that that notion of hyper chaos
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in which we might be able to say that
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maybe there there could be nothing then
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for no reason at all. um there could be
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no absolute that the situation might
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change in some way again for no reason
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at all but he wants to rule that out
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that may uses here he starts by
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considering a possible objection
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against his claim that there is an
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absolute and there are two possible
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thesis here that he puts forward the
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weak thesis is if something exists then
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it must be contingent
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and the strong thesis there are things
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and those things must be contingent.
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So both of those claims argue that there
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are only contingent things. There's no
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um we don't need to worry about so much
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because may for mayor sue this grants
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his goal already. In other words, that
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contingency is necessary. Right? To say
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that the strong thesis there are things
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and those things must be contingent is
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to grant that contingency is necessary,
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which is exactly what he wants to say.
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There is an absolute.
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So he assumes the weak thesis.
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And if we assume the weak thesis,
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the situation is it's not necessary that
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factual things exist. In other words,
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things don't have to exist. But if they
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But once you grant that, once you allow
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that, you've already unwittingly given
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Mayor Sue everything he needs because he
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then will just move his analysis back a
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and say that okay, the things
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themselves, the things that exist, if
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they do, are factual or contingent. And
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he calls this first order facticity.
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that only factual things exist is itself
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being treated as necessary here. In
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order for you to state that thesis in
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the first place, you're having to
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presuppose something necessary, namely
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that proposition that only factual
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Further, this necessary proposition,
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this proposition that you must make if
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you want to put forward this thesis
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expresses a contingency
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in the fact that it says if something
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and this Mayu calls a second order
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So putting all of that together, we have
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the situation that there is an absolute,
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the proposition that factual things
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exist, and it is contingent because the
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proposition may or may not hold.
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So contingency is necessary. That's
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exactly what Mayasu was after. Um, and
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that's what he's got. Problems.
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First first of all just note before we
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look at the problems this is basically
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saying the same thing as the principle
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Um so it it asserts that there is an
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absolute by arguing that the absolute is
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contingency or facticity which is the
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same as possibility when we were talking
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about it in the last video but it does
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use a slightly different argument.
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given that it's the same kind of thing
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deriving the conclusion slightly from a
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from a slightly different position.
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What we're going to see is that it will
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it's also as we saw with the principle
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of factuality a kind of a bit of a
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semantic game of mirrors. And even
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although it works in a slightly
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different way, it falls to exactly the
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same kinds of criticisms.
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So I'm going to frame this whole section
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in exactly the same with exactly the
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same um format that I used to talk about
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the principle of factiality.
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and and there as with we did as as we
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did with that we'll start by looking at
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with the word play the semantics that
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are going on here. So Mayasu's weak
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thesis says that if something exists
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then it must be contingent
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which on its own is 100% reasonable.
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There's no problem with that. But Mayasu
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can't leave it there because he wants to
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prove that something does exist.
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namely the absolute. So the whole as I
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said the whole thing the whole focus of
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the whole Mayasu's entire focus shifts
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back a step from the things themselves
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to the proposition about those things
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and this is exactly where the problem
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is. His conclusion is that there is an
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absolute the proposition that factual
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and it is contingent because the
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proposition may or may not hold.
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The you what we saw with the usage of
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propositions, statements, ideas,
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these things can't be necessary or
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What what can be necessary or contingent
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are things actually concrete existing
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things they can be necessary or
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contingent. In other words, first order
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which is actually the only order
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Second order facticity is actually
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nothing. It's it's a metaphysical
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Um because what it claims is factical
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is an abstract concept i.e. that
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proposition that factual things exist
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and this just doesn't mean anything to
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say that a proposition
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an assertion a claim is necessary or
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It's just not the kind of thing that can
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be necessary or contingent. It's a
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And u it's interesting you because this
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is exactly the opposite of what we just
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asserting regarding um contradictory
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Right? Contradiction applies to ideas,
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things and beliefs, not actual things.
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But now it's the reverse. The necess
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necessity or contingency doesn't apply
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to ideas, propositions, beliefs. It only
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applies to real existing things.
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And this is and this is the the game.
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semantic play that's going on here,
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shifting around these meanings. So
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second order facticity, which this whole
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argument turns on, it's it's not real.
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It's nothing. It's it's an it's an empty
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So what about this then? Mayu could
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possibly then pivot to claim that the
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that factual things exist is actually a
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synonym for existence
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such that the claim would then be that
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is the necess the necessary/contingent
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thing the necessity that is contingent.
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But again, it's the same problem.
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Existence is just not something that can
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be contingent or necessary.
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Contingency and necessity are predicates
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that presuppose existence in the first
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place. In order for something to be
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contingent or necessary, there must be
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something in the first place.
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the same kind of thing that we saw
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Anelm, St. Anselm arguing in the last
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video when he tried to argue backwards
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from the predicate perfect to the
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ways of arguing are perfect examples of
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what happens when you start forming
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arguments with abstract concepts.
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And just to take a little detour here,
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this is I think in general and it's
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something that pervades all of Mayu's
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arguments. It's what happens. It's the
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danger with and and why I don't like
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analytic philosophy because it takes
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language concepts which are inherently
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ambiguous as they must be which which is
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not a bad thing in and of itself. It's
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just what they are. It's how they
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it's how they must be if they're to do
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the job that we want them to do.
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but it misuses them in all sorts of
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subtle ways that seem reasonable at
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first glance. That was the problem.
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As we saw with the the notion of a
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contradictory entity, we know what
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contradictory means. We know what entity
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means. So, we think if they put
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together, we think there must be a
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meaning there. But if you actually take
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a moment to to dwell on it, you'll see
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that it doesn't mean anything. What
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could what could it mean to say an
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entity is contradictory?
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Contradiction doesn't apply to entities.
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So, it takes these these concepts, puts
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them together in ways that seem
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reasonable at first, but in the end, if
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you if you let that kind of um
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method slide, in the end, you find
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yourself surrounded by a whole bunch of
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abstract phantoms and um illusions that
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you've completely lost touch with
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reality. And that's that's my number one
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complaint with abstract uh with analytic
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philosophy is that's what
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I I find it doing all the time. It gets
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lost in concepts and definitions and
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meanings and and it it it equivocates on
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certain things and applies concepts to
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entities when it shouldn't and and
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applies um predicates to concepts when
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it shouldn't and just it does all of
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abstract conceptual maneuvering
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with concepts that that makes sense, but
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in the end you've you've lost yourself
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in the concepts. There's nothing. It
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doesn't it it just doesn't connect back
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to reality. Doesn't connect back to
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anything concrete, anything meaningful.
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Um, and not only that, another danger is
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that you can you can
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deceive yourself because you're creating
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arguments out of thin air believing that
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you are reasoning clearly when all
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you're doing is generating fictions like
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Mayasu's second order facticity.
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It just doesn't mean anything. It's a
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it's a it's an abstract empty
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conceptual illusion.
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But if you let it slide and it seems
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like it might be real. It seems like it
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might be talking about something and if
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you let it slide then there's no hope
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after that because you can never claw it
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back. Once you let that initial
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um semantic trick take hold
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uh nothing else you can never get out of
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it after that point. You've got to stop
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So that's the first problem anyway, the
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first part of this critique, word play
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and semantics. The second part following
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the framework from the last video is the
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way that this argument also jumps from
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Remember that everything that Mayosu is
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talking about here is happening in
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thought. It's all abstract. It's all
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conceptual. He's taking ideas, concepts,
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and thoughts and trying to conclude
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something about reality from them. And
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as I mentioned in a comment on the last
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video, it it's not that you can't think
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about reality or use reason and logic to
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glean certain things about reality. My
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point is that something about your
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thoughts, concepts, ideas themselves
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like a second order facticity. That
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can't be metaphysical truth,
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metaphysical reality. It cannot be
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being. It can't be the absolute.
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It It's just It's just a concept. It's a
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It's literally creating reality. Well,
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it's not literally, but it is creating
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reality out of thin air.
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And it is literally defining a concept
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And that um is it was exactly what we
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saw Anelm do with God. Masu does the
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same thing, I think, with um with every
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with all of this facticity, with
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possibility. He's turning these
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existing things, metaphysical things.
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And finally, although this is a minor
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point, but just note the structure of
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this argument, it's another style
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argument. And that Mayus starts by
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getting his opposition, the fool, to
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declare their position before applying a
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semantic maneuver to undermine it. He
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gets the thesis first. What's your
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thesis? Okay, let's take your weak
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thesis and now I can
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go to work on it and point out these
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inconsistencies or point out in this
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case find a a necessity
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behind the very fact that you're making
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this claim. So it it it has that same
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structure that Anselm style structure.
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get if you can get your opponent to to
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stake their claim in a position in a in
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a proposition then you can work your
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semantic magic on it and um undermine
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it. Okay. So that is what I have to say
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about um hyper chaos and the limitations
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that may tries to impose on it. Now
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let's turn to the necessitarian
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inference and the frequentialist
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Okay. So the necessitarian inference and
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the frequentialist implication the um
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this is basically an objection that may
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assue assumes or puts forward in order
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knock it down and and strengthen his his
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So the objection as may imagines it to
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his [clears throat] principle of
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factuality might go like this. If
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everything were contingent as you say,
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this would mean then that the physical
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laws would also be contingent.
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Meaning that they would be changing all
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the time. And this is the frequentialist
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Since this isn't what we observe,
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these laws, these physical laws must be
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underwritten by a necessity that rules
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And that's the necessitarian inference.
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So that's the objection. Mayor Sue gives
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an argument then to refute this.
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So he he's going to attack this via the
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frequentialist implication.
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The notion that um if everything were
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contingent, the physical if the physical
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laws, including the physical laws, were
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also contingent, they would be changing
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all the time. That's what he's going to
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attack. So he says this
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this um objection the frequentialist
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implication is a piece of probabilistic
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which notes that there are many a priori
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possible configurations of laws but only
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one configuration that is constantly
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Now for probabilistic reasoning to be
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valid, the total possible configuration
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of laws must be thinkable in terms of a
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And this total totality must be larger
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than the set of physically possible
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For example, a single throw of a die. um
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there are six possibilities but there's
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only one physically possible outcome and
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what may is going to argue here is that
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probabilistic reasoning based on this
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totality which is an important idea
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is valid only for events internal to the
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universe so empirical not the universe
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as a whole which is only conceptualized
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When we try to apply this probabilistic
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reasoning which works for things within
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to our conception of the universe as a
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whole, we assume that it's legitimate to
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consider the conceivable as a totality
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in the same way that we considered the
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total number of empirical possibilities
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And the specific problem [clears throat]
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for probabilistic reasoning here comes
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in the form of Canour's set theory. And
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this is going to get a little bit tricky
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um especially if like me you're not um
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well-versed in mathematics. So, Cantor
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showed that mathematically there can be
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actual comparable infinite sets and
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[snorts] that there are therefore
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degrees of infinity which can be
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quantified by what he called transfinite
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More importantly for Mayu he showed that
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there can be no set of all sets. In
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other words, the totality of an infinite
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set [snorts] can always be exceeded by a
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larger one, i.e. a larger transfinite.
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Um, and that's what he showed. So, Mayu
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is going to use that
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undermine this idea of the
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frequentialist implication. So he takes
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KTOR's proof that there can be no set of
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um regarding infinite sets and applies
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that to our conception of the universe
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[snorts] which is specifically here a
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set of possible configurations of
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And so what I think may is getting at
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here is he's saying that
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um infinite sets are not subject to
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empirical observation. They're therefore
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only conceptualizable
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and nor is the set of the universe as a
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whole which we've already said is only
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conceptualizable as well. Therefore,
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what applies to the former infinite sets
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also applies to the latter, the set of
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the universe. And Mayasu glosses all of
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this by saying the quantifiable totality
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of the thinkable is unthinkable.
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And I I think we can summarize the
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with three premises and a conclusion.
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So, premise one, since the universe as a
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whole isn't susceptible to empirical
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observation, it is therefore only
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Premise two, probabilistic reasoning
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requires a totality thinkable in terms
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of a numerical totality.
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by we can't think the totality of what
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is only conceivable.
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And the conclusion is therefore
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probabilistic reasoning cannot apply to
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the universe as a whole.
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let's see if we can um break some of
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that down. First of all, the uh
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necessitarian inference. I don't I I
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just don't get the argument here when um
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the necessitarian inference and of
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course this is an objection that Mayor
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Sue has raised himself. So in rejecting
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it it looks a little bit like I'm
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helping him but really what I'm doing is
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pointing out what I think are flaws in
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So my problem with the necessitarian
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influence is just is that just because
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the laws of physics are stable doesn't
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mean they're underwritten by a
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necessity. That's that's the leap I
31:09
can't see here. Um just because a
31:13
certain situation holds
31:16
doesn't mean that that that situation is
31:19
necessary. Doesn't mean that it must be
31:24
So that that's the first small point a
31:27
problem with the the the necessitarian
31:32
Now the frequentialist implication the
31:35
problems here are a little bit more
31:40
the way I think of this is it's all a
31:45
game of mathematical semantics. So, it's
31:48
still semantic games, but this time with
31:55
yeah, because I mean, we've seen Mayasu
31:58
take abstract concepts and ideas and
32:02
twist them and and work with them and
32:05
manipulate them in such a way that he's
32:07
able to generate paradoxes or reality,
32:11
ultimately concrete metaphysical
32:14
realities out of them. Now he's doing
32:16
something similar this time with
32:17
mathematics. Specifically, he's taking
32:20
an he's taking abstract mathematical
32:25
and applying them to thought.
32:29
And that's where this whole thing goes
32:30
wrong. Everything comes back to thought.
32:32
Everything that may the the content of
32:35
all of his arguments, it's all thoughts.
32:39
It's all ideas. It's all concepts. And
32:42
it's it's kind of the same problem again
32:48
cropping up in a different in a
32:49
different kind of format.
32:53
Or rather it's the same format but
32:55
cropping up in a different with
32:57
different content. It's the same formal
32:59
problem just with different ideas.
33:03
So the best way to to go through this I
33:05
think is look at the the argument that I
33:08
laid out premise by premise. So premise
33:10
one, [snorts] since the universe as a
33:12
whole isn't susceptible to empirical
33:14
observation, it's therefore only
33:17
conceivable. We can only think of the
33:19
universe as a whole. We can't
33:23
empirically observe it or measure it or
33:26
quantify it. That's fine. I have no
33:29
problems with that. Um, I I might even
33:33
go a step further and say that it isn't
33:36
actually conceivable, but that's kind of
33:39
drifting down my own lane of
33:42
metaphysics, which is not really
33:45
relevant here. As that premise stands,
33:48
there's nothing wrong with it. Premise
33:50
two. Now, this is okay. The premise is
33:56
probabilistic reasoning requires a
33:58
totality thinkable in numerical terms
34:02
quantifiable. [clears throat]
34:09
its validity is restricted to the domain
34:15
So if you want to quantify or calculate
34:19
probabilities then yes I would agree
34:21
with mayasu you need a numerical
34:24
totality of the possibilities
34:27
in this case the configuration the
34:30
number of configurations of possible
34:34
laws of nature but the frequentialist
34:40
um they don't need to perform a
34:42
mathematical calculation all they need
34:44
to know is that there is some massive
34:47
number of possible configurations of
34:49
physical laws which they do because this
34:52
is obviously true. That's no one's
34:55
denying that even may sue and that means
34:58
that there's nothing wrong. There's
35:00
nothing illegitimate about the
35:02
frequentialist implication.
35:04
They don't need to have a numerical
35:09
a quantifiable totality for the possible
35:12
configurations of laws. If if they were
35:15
doing if they wanted to perform some
35:17
kind of mathematical calculation, fit it
35:19
into an equation, calculate something
35:22
with it, then yes, they would need to
35:24
know that, but they don't need to know
35:26
it. So this this whole digression of
35:29
Mayus into Canour's set theory and
35:32
transfinites, it it's it's irrelevant
35:36
here. The frequentialist doesn't need to
35:40
concern themselves with any of this. We
35:43
know that there is some massive number
35:46
of possible configurations of physical
35:48
laws and we know that only one is in
35:52
evidence and that's the problem. We
35:55
don't need to quantify the
36:00
And then premise three by contour we
36:04
can't think the totality of what is only
36:09
And this is also I think false or at the
36:15
very least it's not it's an
36:17
interpretation of cantor didn't say we
36:22
can't think the totality of what is only
36:28
like I said mayasu's interpretation or
36:30
even better his extension of canour the
36:36
transfinite and canour set theory.
36:40
It's a piece of mathematical reasoning
36:43
but it says nothing at all about limits
36:46
to conceptualization in general.
36:50
Thus our probabilistic reasoning isn't
36:54
faulty and the frequentialist
36:56
implication is again valid.
37:00
And this by the way is another example
37:03
of Mayor Sue and the the other um thing
37:08
that he does quite regularly is
37:11
transgressing domains. taking what what
37:14
works in one domain and applying it in
37:16
another domain where it doesn't work
37:18
where it's it's illegitimate there. So
37:21
for example, we've seen him go from
37:24
thought to reality. Jump from those
37:26
domains as if as if as if you can. We've
37:30
seen him jump around between
37:33
metaphysical, conceptual, and scientific
37:35
being conflating all of those different
37:38
kinds of being beings.
37:41
Um, and also the the latest one from
37:44
first order to second order facticity.
37:47
This these kinds of these jumps that
37:50
just don't respect these different
37:52
areas. Um, which [clears throat]
37:55
and you just can't apply things that
37:59
work in one area, one domain to these
38:03
other domains or or you can, but that's
38:06
my whole problem with analytic
38:07
philosophy. That's what it does. That's
38:10
that's how it secures all of these
38:12
insights that it that it that that it um
38:17
by by manipulating words and concepts
38:21
and misapplying them, misappropriating.
38:24
Um and that's that's this is just
38:26
another example of that.
38:28
So that's that's the main problem with
38:31
the frequent with Mayasu's criticism of
38:34
the frequentialist implication. This
38:36
mathematical semantics
38:39
that um I think he he indulges in a
38:42
smaller problem with this
38:45
is that Mayasu himself says that the
38:49
non-totalizing aiomatic of the
38:51
transfinite is not the only possible
38:55
aiomatic. So all he's done is show that
38:58
there is at least one way to think that
39:01
the possible is untotalizable.
39:05
And this really weakens his claim. I
39:08
think he tries to claw back some
39:12
legitimacy here by noting that reason
39:15
suggests there's no necessity to
39:17
physical laws. That's what may argued
39:20
for, but I've already argued against
39:24
And he tries to also say that the
39:27
necessitarian inference results in
39:29
physical laws being necessary with no
39:32
one knowing why it is these laws rather
39:35
than others which necessarily exist.
39:39
But first, I've already argued that the
39:42
stability of the laws of physics doesn't
39:45
mean that that they're necessary. And
39:49
the fact that no one knows why we have
39:51
these laws rather than others is not a
39:54
good reason for either accepting or
39:57
denying anything in relation to it. So
40:02
it's a smaller problem, but it's one
40:04
that may himself um discusses. So to his
40:08
credit, I guess he points that out, but
40:11
that seems like a bigger problem than
40:13
May Sue um lets on there.
40:17
Uh this brings me to the end of my
40:19
critique of Mayasu's um conception of
40:23
the necessitarian inference and his
40:25
defense against the frequentialist
40:29
Uh neither of which seem compelling to
40:33
It also brings me to the end of the
40:35
video. So let me close out with a
40:41
So first up the limitations on hyper
40:44
chaos. This was an attempt by Mayasu to
40:47
reign in the situation
40:50
we've found it he's found himself in in
40:53
which anything can happen at any time
40:57
And the first limitation he imposes is
41:03
on a contradictory entity. A
41:05
contradictory entity he says is
41:06
absolutely impossible. And this is an
41:09
attempt to validate the principle of
41:14
The problem here was as we saw talk of
41:17
an of a contradictory entity is pure
41:20
sophistry. Contradiction applies to
41:23
ideas, properties, sorry, propositions,
41:28
etc. Claims about entities, not entities
41:34
How can an entity be contradictory? It
41:38
just doesn't make sense.
41:40
And his second limitation he called the
41:44
thesis of the there is.
41:48
And this says that there must be an
41:54
and this argument then starts from the
41:57
weak thesis of the advocate against the
42:00
existence of an absolute. So if
42:03
something exists then it must be
42:07
And Mayasu says assuming the weak thesis
42:11
presupposes a second order facticity.
42:15
So if we assume the weak the thesis this
42:19
makes the thesis itself which is a
42:21
proposition necessary and because this
42:24
proposition might or might not hold it's
42:29
The problems I have with this first it's
42:34
this notion of second order facticity is
42:36
pure sophistry. Contingency and
42:39
necessity apply only to concrete
42:42
existence. They don't
42:45
by that I mean concretely existing
42:48
things. They don't apply to propositions
42:50
or ideas. What could it mean to say a
42:54
proposition is necessary or a
42:56
proposition is contingent? nor do they
42:59
apply to existence itself.
43:04
or necessity presuppose an existent to
43:08
be contingent or nec necessary in the
43:12
The second problem is this whole
43:16
style of argumentation jumps from
43:18
thought to reality by turning an ab
43:22
abstract fiction which is second order
43:25
facticity into a metaphysical existent.
43:30
Then we looked at the necessitarian
43:31
inference and the frequentialist
43:35
The frequentialist implication basically
43:37
says that if everything were contingent,
43:39
we would expect to see physical laws
43:41
changing all the time. And the
43:44
necessitarian infer inference says that
43:47
since we don't see this, these physical
43:49
laws must be underwritten by a necessity
43:52
that rules out disorder.
43:54
Mayu's response probabilistic reasoning
43:58
applies to empirical objects within the
44:01
universe but doesn't apply to the
44:03
conceptualized universe itself
44:06
and mayasu uses canour's set theory and
44:09
the transfinite here
44:13
the problems that I have with this first
44:16
regarding this the necessitarian
44:18
inference the stability of the physical
44:21
laws doesn't imply their necessity I I
44:24
don't think there's no there's no
44:27
logical leap from one to the other.
44:31
And regarding the frequentialist
44:34
my first problem, my biggest problem was
44:37
the one of mathematical semantics.
44:40
So Mayasu's restriction on probabilistic
44:42
reasoning doesn't transfer to the
44:45
probabilistic intuition of the
44:49
And second, KTO's transfinite numbers in
44:52
relation to infinite sets don't transfer
44:55
to our conceptualized
44:58
totality of the universe.
45:02
And so that is us for this video, which
45:07
means there's only one video left. And
45:10
um it's going to be a much shorter
45:12
video. I'm just going to there's one
45:14
more thing I want to
45:17
um critique in May's philosophy and it's
45:21
regarding what he calls the task of
45:23
philosophy and then I want to close off
45:26
with some positives actually some things
45:29
that I agree with in Mayu uh even though
45:32
I don't agree with maybe the reasoning
45:36
behind how he gets to the certain things
45:40
there are some things that I think he's
45:42
he he has right that I I agree with
45:45
anyway. Um and we'll talk about those as
45:48
well. But that's it for today. Thanks
45:50
for watching. I'll see you next time.