DEFINING THE ONTOLOGY BEHIND PHYSICS (5 Paragraphs, meant for the theoretical approach in physics)
Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil.
In the definition of the ontology of physics (generally as the study of the cosmos), I shall posit the necessity of the highest possible grounds that I find as fundamental for physics and philosophy alike. The reason for these Categories’ (a few universals that apply to all existents, and not merely to all discourses) being meant also for philosophy (especially for the philosophy of science) is that both philosophy and physics have physical existents in common as their object range.
Philosophy additionally has the pure universals of physics within the ambit of study, and both physics and philosophy have different manners of treating their object range. Hence, well-grounded physical foundations cannot do without the most suitable among these universals as its fundamental Categories, selected from among the universals forming part of the objects of philosophy.
Although many physicists and mathematicians may find the following definition of the ontology behind physics queer due to their pragmatic and near-sighted concept of physics (where physical objects are part of their object range, and not their universals / qualities / forms) in a non-grounded manner, I define here ontology for use in physics with the purpose of later elaboration of the various aspects brought forward in the definition.
The Ontology behind physics is (1) the rationally consequent science of the totality of physical existents, their parts, and their sine qua nons, namely, the pure universals (whereas “properties” are the conglomerations of universal qualities) as pertinents of existents and their parts, (2) prioritized as objects in terms of the To Be (Greek, Einai) of Reality-in-total and only thereafter in terms of the to be (einai) of its parts (reality-in-particular), (3) serving to achieve ever better measuremental approximations of the cosmos and its part-systems (4) in terms of the epistemological ideal of Reality-in-total, namely, the theoretically highest possible notion of Reality-in-general, (5) grounded in the unique and exhaustive implications of To Be, namely, Extension and Change, that are the absolutely necessary touchstones of observables and unobservables which exhaust the object range of physics, (6) in properly physical activities that let Reality and realities be measured in term of measuremental and classificational categories that facilitate both experiments and theories equally well.
I have merely used here the highest Ideals of philosophical and scientific thinking, namely, To Be, Reality-in-total, and Reality-in-general. These are not explained here well enough. I have treated them with detailed justifications in my books: Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, Frankfurt, 2015, and Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 2018, Berlin.
This discussion constitutes a few paragraphs directed at defining the ontology to be presupposed in physics (and the physical sciences). The definition is elaborate, divided into 6 important aspects.
Kindly share your well-considered opinions. Please note that this is not meant as a definition of conceptual engineering in physics. Nor is this meant for engineering sciences and other pragmatic approaches to doing science.
For those who treat physics merely as the theoretical backdrop for engineering sciences and other applied sciences, this definition will seem heavy. I do not address them. I address theoreticians and philosophers of physics who are concerned about the foundations of physics from as general a perspective as possible.
I do understand your argument. Physics and cosmology have many different methods. But basically both are physical sciences, and hence have some commonalities. The physical ontology of physics and cosmology (of course, also of astronomy, astrophysics, etc.) that I am trying to construct here is the most basic one which in the sense that it consists of the common features in them all. These are naturally to be the foundations of these sciences, too...! One may add to the list other sciences too, but if they study the physical existence of all that exists physically. This is the most basic of ontology that underlies all sciences, in my opinion!
But the prejudice that you suggest in the final part of your intervention in terms of physics and of philosophy could be evidenced in the following funny arguments parallel to yours:
Humans on earth have used and over-used nature, humans have killed the environment, and hence humanity is anti-science and has no place in research or even to exist...!
Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Darwin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Putin, etc. may have done many bad things. I and you too do such murdering in a minor manner, since we are not able to see science and philosophy from the most general and holistic manner, considering and including all possible aspects of science and philosophy. THAT IS THE POINT.
In any further justification of your argument above, if anyone says that I falsely accused you of "murdering in a minor manner", let that person know that I did not say so. It was just a metaphor. And if anyone still would think I said it badly, I shall remove 'you' and call only me as murderer in that sense and apologize a thousand times!
But the argument that you brought in was very prejudicial of the difference between science and some scientists on the one side, and philosophy and some philosophers on the other. I would even ask: Were and are all these persons that you mentioned just philosophers? Only a few of them had something to do with philosophy. What a generalization!!!
Have you heard the following argument in the first few lessons in logic in the high school or college? If a logician argues badly, we need not accuse logic as a bad science!!!
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Dear Preston Guynn
Actually the term "Cosmology" was used to denote a branch of philosophy of nature (the philosophical study of the physical world) far before the same term was used to denote the modern astronomical cosmology.
Your claim "Philosophy is giving preeminence to ideas of the mind" depends of the philosophical school you are peaking. Historically scientific thinking has being developed under a philosophical framework, and it is due to philosophy that science actually exist as it is today.
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