r/Metaphyscs

Methodological naturalism and metaphysics.

Medical science recognises psychogenic pathologies, that is diseases whose causal origins are entirely mental, and medical science also recognises diseases of entirely physical causal origin, for example those occasioned by poisoning. In other words, unless there is a well motivated independent reason to quarantine medical science and hold that it does not employ methodological naturalism, science implies property dualism, at least.
Accordingly, as both idealism and physicalism are inconsistent with dualism, each of these implies the supernatural. However, the idealist needn't be committed to naturalism, so this problem only impacts the physicalist, as the truth of physicalism implies the truth of metaphysical naturalism.
To be clear, I am not contending that methodological naturalism implies metaphysical naturalism or vice versa, only that science, and therefore physics, does not support physicalism. In fact, physics, as a science, supports the falsity of physicalism.

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u/ughaibu — 8 days ago

JD Vance's argument for Yahweh's demonhood

JD Vance said that the occupants of UFOs are biblical demons. According to the Bible, one of the occupants of a UFO is Yahweh. Surely the Vice President does not deny the credibility of the relevant portions of the Bible. Therefore, JD Vance is committed to the view that Yahweh is a biblical demon.

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u/Training-Promotion71 — 7 days ago

A Reminder

The notion that the actual world could still be a natural world if God created it is, to me, incoherent. The coexistence of God and a natural world is possible only if God did not create the natural world. If God created the world, then it is, by definition, an artifact rather than a natural object. In that sense, supernaturalism is incompatible with creationism. If creationism is true, the world is artificial, not natural. Consequently, naturalism is not more parsimonious than theism simply because it posits "the natural world" whereas theism posits "the natural world plus God." If theism is true, reality is not a natural world plus God but a created artifact whose existence depends on God. There are no brute artifacts.

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u/Training-Promotion71 — 7 days ago