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Din referat: Partial review of Ludwig Fahrbach

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, but every mental representation is an Effect.

Moreover, if our material universe has at its fundamental level an philosophical atom (indivisible, infisionable etc.), then
that atom cannot be explained?

Its existence is unconditioned. It does not come from Big Bang? Its indivisibility cannot be explained? Its unstructured nature cannot be explained?

For example, upon learning that there is no cause for the Big Bang, Smith’s understanding of the Big Bang improves.

Every event that has source, origin, begining has also is causal. There can be no any explosion and expansion without cause/causes.

Both explosions and expansions are changes, are temporal, and therefore causal.

My fundamental principle of time:

"There can be no any change whitout cause/causes; every change is an effect."

For example, if a neutron decays at a particular time and Smith knows everything about neutrons in general and about that neutron in particular, then he has a complete
understanding of its decay.

It no longer represents a scientific mystery for him. So brute facts can be completely understood.