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PARTIAL REVIEW OF LUDWIG FAHRBACH'S
UNDERSTANDING BRUTE FACTS
According to most causal theories of explanation, explanations convey
information about causal relations which are part of
the external world.
In this case, the dependency relations can be identified
with the causal relations between events, and the order of nature can be
identified with the whole causal net.
I feel that, the idea of dependence does not distinguishe between cause and
condition, on the one hand, and between cause and implication, on the other
hand. We can make possible many hegelian confusions on this base. Between a
causal relation and a cognitive implication there can be no substantial
difference? Only their form is somehow similar. Neither an analitical
implication cannot be reduced at a causal relation or objective dependence
nor a causal relation or objective dependence can be reduced at an
analitical dependence. That is, the substance of dependence, in the two
cases, the reason of dependence is different, essentialy different.
For example, the Big Bang is a starting point in the causal structure of
the world, which belongs to the brink of the causal structure of the world,
which, in turn, consists of all uncaused events and all epiphenomena (i.e.,
events that don't cause other events).
What scientist pretended that The Big Bang have had no cause? There can be
no any occurence without cause. Without causality there can be no time and
therefore Big Bang. Moreover, who can prove that even the empty space do
not have any reason of being?
There can be events that do not have any influence on other events? Only
completely isolated events.
Smith might still harbor such feelings about X, because he might insist
that, in spite of everything, he still doesn't know why X happened or
occurred.
Here the error is obvious. I believed that the author maybe refers to some
very fundamental existent (e.g., empty space or the brink of space etc.),
but he refers also to occurences. There can be no any non-causal occurence,
there can be no any non-causal temporal event. The causality is the reason
of time and therefore of all and every occurence. The causality is on of
the most fundamental principle of time. Logic metastructures the
mathematical demonstrations, but both are fundamentaly underlied by time
and causality.
If there is such a thing as a
Theory of Everything that is true of our world, it seems possible that
physicists could accumulate sufficiently diverse and extensive evidence to
confirm that it indeed encompasses everything and consequently is brute.
However, a theory is a cognitive entity, a mental representation, |