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Simplicity - A Meta-Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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Simplicity - A Meta-Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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Simplicity presents a new, wide-ranging philosophical theory, one
that concerns how reality is conceived. In so doing it also
provides a new logic with which to approach conceptual situations.
In this book, Craig Dilworth replaces the dualistic, true/false
approach of formal logic with a three-part basis for thought. This
basis consists of the categories of simplicity, complexity, and
nothingness. The category of simplicity is paradoxical, while that
of complexity is unproblematic, and that of nothingness is
self-contradictory. When applied to ontological categories, such as
those of substance, self, or causality, these categories of reason
can resolve, rather than solve, intellectual issues. The notion of
perspective is integral to the simplicity way of thinking. A
particular entity-such as the self-may be conceived as simple in
one perspective, while being complex or nothing in another.
Combined with the categories of the simplicity theory, Dilworth
uses the notion of perspective to reveal a type of conceptual
conflict that differs from contradiction. So, for example,
simplicity better represents the relation between competing
scientific theories-such as the wave and particle theories of
radiation-as a form of perspectival incompatibility. The book
distinguishes between two forms of simplicity: analytic and
synthetic, which can respectively be conceived of as a point and a
whole. Again, the notion of perspective is employed: what is
analytically simple in one perspective may well be synthetically
simple in another. In this book, the simplicity way of thinking is
applied to intellectual issues in philosophy, set theory, and
physics. These applications show how simplicity can provide real
insight into a wide variety of conceptually complex situations.
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