Great question. Judging from 20th century physics, I'd say very little.
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Originally Posted by Doctordick
Most scientists take the success of that very scientific explanation as proof of the validity of the presumed ontology; from a philosophical perspective this is a clearly unjustifiable presumption.
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Well I wouldn't quite say "most", when talking about modern physics. Models are not taken too literally, although there's a natural tendency to consider that
something must exist,
somehow.
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Originally Posted by Doctordick
First, whatever the ontological elements underlying this epistemological construct are, there exists a possibility that additional ontological elements may arise later which were unavailable when the the epistemological construct was conceived.
Second, there must exist a way to represent differences between the underlying ontological elements.
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Fair enough....
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