Which is a greater method for predicting phenomena? This is very closely related to the Christian debate.
Whilst no comprehensive, empirical fact can ever be established by an entirely metaphysical arguement, a combination of a pragmatic and metaphysical viewpont, I believe, is required to predict much phenomena.
I have one quick example:
-Quarks are very unkown quantities, as are photons. Photons are massless objects which have momentum, which is a very strange concept indeed. People have tried to explain this using the four dimension of the physical world of which we can sense (a pragmatic view), but none of these can completely explain this and other such phenomena.
Modern physics requires us to think that there are 10 dimensions. Strictly speaking, that which we do not sense is metaphysical. Can Photons not therefore be explained as objects which exist in the four dimensions of which we exist, and can be explained up until the point where a pragmatic thought pattern cannot reason further. Metaphysics is required to completely explain that which is impossible for us to explain.
Many ( I hope) of you will have heard of the "last human freedom", which is basically the ability to control your responses and to partially control your existance. I came up with the "infinite human freedom" which is the ability to completely control the four dimensions of which we exist. The nature of infinite however is that it is humanly impossible. The infinite human freedom is God, who can understand and completely explain all the dimensions as "the physical". We, as humans are restricted by human freedom, or rather lack there of. We can barely come close to conquering our personal dimension, let alone the whole four dimensions of which we exist, and especially not the other 6 dimensions of which we attempt to explain using a pragmatic viewpoint, although this is futile. I may be rambling.
We must use both metaphysics and pragmatism to explain our universe and the phenomena that exists. Well, thats what I say!
Whilst no comprehensive, empirical fact can ever be established by an entirely metaphysical arguement, a combination of a pragmatic and metaphysical viewpont, I believe, is required to predict much phenomena.
I have one quick example:
-Quarks are very unkown quantities, as are photons. Photons are massless objects which have momentum, which is a very strange concept indeed. People have tried to explain this using the four dimension of the physical world of which we can sense (a pragmatic view), but none of these can completely explain this and other such phenomena.
Modern physics requires us to think that there are 10 dimensions. Strictly speaking, that which we do not sense is metaphysical. Can Photons not therefore be explained as objects which exist in the four dimensions of which we exist, and can be explained up until the point where a pragmatic thought pattern cannot reason further. Metaphysics is required to completely explain that which is impossible for us to explain.
Many ( I hope) of you will have heard of the "last human freedom", which is basically the ability to control your responses and to partially control your existance. I came up with the "infinite human freedom" which is the ability to completely control the four dimensions of which we exist. The nature of infinite however is that it is humanly impossible. The infinite human freedom is God, who can understand and completely explain all the dimensions as "the physical". We, as humans are restricted by human freedom, or rather lack there of. We can barely come close to conquering our personal dimension, let alone the whole four dimensions of which we exist, and especially not the other 6 dimensions of which we attempt to explain using a pragmatic viewpoint, although this is futile. I may be rambling.
We must use both metaphysics and pragmatism to explain our universe and the phenomena that exists. Well, thats what I say!
