NATURAL METAPHISICS

NATURAL METAPHISICS  

(still working on it)

Natural metaphysics is about the essence of possibilities as the qualities of nature.  In this sense possibility is understood “as something that is able to be a quality as a mode of reality”. I list six possibilities from mere maybe to summation. The view I take here is that Reality is literally more or less possibility as differing qualities of reality.  A quality is what makes something such that it is.

1.       A neutral possibility is what “may or may not be”. This is probably the most accepted and fundamental understanding of the idea of possibility as a mere maybe or maybe not quality of reality.

2.       An ephemeral possibility is what “can sometimes be”.  The idea behind this kind of possibility is that something can sometimes be but there is a limit or window of opportunity for which it can be. For example as long as X exists, Y is a possibility. That is Y is able to be a quality of reality so long as X exists.  However X may not always be able to bring about Y, so there is a limited window of opportunity. 

3.       An erratic possibility is what “can be”. This possibility is conditional in that so long as the right conditions are available this can be a quality of reality. For example X and Z form the possible conditions that Y can be a quality of reality. 

4.       A consistent possibility is what “can always be”. This is a general possibility in that it is an eternal possibility. It is always able to be a quality in reality because it is derived from a general possibility of reality itself. Example X-ness is the consistent possible condition of reality without which a X would not be what it is.  

5.       An actual possibility is what “continues to be”.  

6.       A sum of possibility is what “a unity in diversity of being is”.

A possible universe:

In a possible universe the consistent possibility of reaction between existent things, is an intangible quality of its reality. When objects react with each other this is a tangible occurrence but this does not change the consistent possibility for reaction between existent things. So long as things exist, reaction is a consistent possibility, before, during and after the reaction between existent things. The reaction between exist things is what can always be.

 Let’s say there is an object Z in this universe, so long as Z exist there are possibilities that can sometimes be because Z exist. these are erratic possibilities. So long as Z exists these possibilities exist as intangibles. They changes with changes in Z and they become tangible only through Z.  Z has its own form; this is the tangible occurrence of an own erratic possibility of Z’s. Z’s form may or may not change in different way but the possibility of other forms can sometimes be.

The relationship between the universe, Z and other existent things is the neutral possibilities of what may or may not be as intangible qualities. When these intangibles become tangible they change the possibilities of what may or may not be.  

A natural metaphysical method about the intangible qualities of nature I will call  it speculative pragmatics.

Pragmatic Maxim: Allow any flight of imagination provided this imagination ultimately alights upon a possible practical effect. (Peirce 1992-94, vol. II, p. 235).

Pragmatic Being: A sum of possible qualities will constitute a being.

                In order to ascertain the intellectual conception of a being one should consider what possible practical qualities might conceivably result in the reality of that conception; and the sum of these possible qualities will constitute the entire being of the intellectual conception.

Pragmatic Meaning: A sum of probable reactions will constitute a meaning.

                In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what probable practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the conception.   

Pragmatic Identity: A sum of antecedent principles will constitute an identity.  

                In order to ascertain the identity of an intellectual conception one should consider what   practical antecedent principles might conceivably necessitate the controlling principals of that conception; and the sum of those principles will constitute the entire identity of that conception.