Structures as relations

Paoletti, Michele Paolini

doi:10.1007/s11229-018-01918-8

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“…That assumption grounds the “either/or” intuition—that appearances' matter must either be numerically identical with the thing in itself tout court , or else must be something different, related to the thing in itself only through some (external) causal connection. Some deployments of the notions of form and matter in the broad Aristotelian tradition might be taken to have something of this “thing‐like” flavor—for example, when mediaeval Aristotelians postulated individual substantial forms with causal powers, or when Michele Paolini Paoletti (2021) takes inspiration from Aristotelian forms to posit really existing structures exercising “top‐down” causal powers to constitute complex entities. But this forms‐as‐objects picture is neither the only possible hylomorphism, nor a plausible way of understanding Kant's formal idealism.…”

Section: Formal Idealismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcendental idealism as formal idealism

Anderson

2022

European J of Philosophy

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Transcendental idealism is the basic worldview shaping Kant's critical philosophy, but its proper interpretation is enormously contested. I identify five constraints on an adequate interpretation, which collectively stand in apparent tension. These serve to highlight internal difficulties of the view itself, and also to reveal serious challenges for both the more standard phenomenalist and deflationary interpretations, and newer “moderate metaphysical” approaches. Difficulty centers on how to reconcile Kant's widespread claims that things in themselves are identical to appearances, in some sense, with his equally widespread insistence that they are (and must be) non‐identical. I suggest that Kant's view must have been that the objects of knowledge are (strictly) partially mind‐dependent, and that the Kantian hylomorphic idea of formal idealism can explain this partial mind‐dependence. The result points toward an anti‐metaphysical interpretation of Kantian idealism, according to which the metaphysical question of identity between things in themselves and appearances should be rejected as illegitimate, rather than answered.

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Section: Formal Idealismmentioning

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Transcendental idealism as formal idealism

Anderson

2022

European J of Philosophy

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“…We distinguish between Object-Centered States, which are associated with a single Object, and Ensemble States, which describe the interaction of several independent Objects. 9 Paoletti (2018) proposes that the Structure of an Object consists of all the internal relationships of that Object. Further, he proposes that Structure should be considered as an entity in its own right.…”

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“…By comparison, applied science attempts to use those frameworks to predict or explain real-world phenomena. Given science's success, it is reasonable to identify objects as entities with "causal powers" (Paoletti, 2018) and that what is real is what is consistent with scientific results.…”

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Semantic simulations based on object-oriented analysis and modeling

Allen¹

2020

LIBRES

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Background. This is part of an ongoing set of studies to develop a framework and techniques for rich semantic modeling, based on traditional ontologies and upper ontologies. Such models should provide the basis for direct representation of complex texts such as scientific research reports and descriptions of historical events. Semantic models have been developed to describe mechanisms and explore how semantic models can be related to object-oriented programming languages.Objective. Object-oriented semantic modeling was applied to two simulations: of a waterfall and of the cardiopulmonary system. Issues related to the components of these models and their interaction were examined. Results. Complete executable models for the waterfall and the cardiopulmonary system examples are demonstrated. Specific recommendations are offered for handling States, Portions of Matter, Meta-Operators, and Systems.

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Processual Emergentism

Dombrowski

2022

Erkenn

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Structures as relations

Cited by 5 publications

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Transcendental idealism as formal idealism

Transcendental idealism as formal idealism

Semantic simulations based on object-oriented analysis and modeling

Processual Emergentism

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