Energy and force are metaphysical things to describe physical things!
No, because they are in principle quantifiable and measurable or entail things that are quantifiable and measurable. It is only when you attach additional baggage to such terms (e.g. talking of them as being final, absolute, or unalterable or investing them with a spiritual or teleological aspect) that they become metaphysical, or better, that they are deployed metaphysically. Such metaphysicality, however, should not be confused with serious metaphysical analysis (i.e. ontological, conceptual, or logical analysis) which seeks to understand basic categories or concepts such as, for example, causality, the nature of mathematical objects, or even the nature of scientific explanation and methodology (which involve both metaphysics/ontology and epistemology).
When you say or consider any parameter of system as metaphysical then there is no space for physical. Science proved that there is no any thing like physical ( Crude definition of physical "solid particle and its behavior"). For understanding, physical nature is pretend and observed due to poor human sensory response. So, if you are applied science or engineering student your statement is false in first part, if you are metaphysics learner your statement is false in second part and ultimately if you are truth seeker then false in both first and second part....
First Part: Energy and force are metaphysical things
Second Part: describe physical things!
Your Statement: Energy and force are metaphysical things to describe physical things!
Thnak you for your response. I'm a truth seeker.
I know that we can measure amounts of energy transaction, and forces.
The origin of my question is : Why fundamental forces ares of number of 4 ? And how they act like they act ?
When I try to explain magnetic force to my students, surely I use the spin of particules, the electric charge displacement, etc..., but I ask myself : What is the electric charge of an lectron which has at the same time ondulatory and corpuscular behaviors ?
Analog questions are asked for gravity, and for mass energy of a body in rest state, and many other aspects of manifestation of forces and energy.
Sagar More RE: «"Crude definition of physical "solid particle and its behavior"»
That is indeed crude. It conflates physicalism with materialism. Forces, fields, waves, or charges are physical, although not material.
Luis-Felipe Velázquez-León "RE: Both energy and force are present in both fields: physics and metaphysics, in other words, natural and supernatural."
Maybe so. But if there are supernatural energy and forces, those are not what the physicist is appealing to in describing or explaining physical phenomena, nor what the typical analytical metaphysician who is analyzing the fundamental conceptual categories of science is talking about. Some people who study religious metaphysics or who are metaphysicians of the Shirley Maclean variety might talk about spiritual energy or forces, and the like, but such postulates seem to lack the explanatory power needed to overcome Occam's Razor.
Stefano Ognyanski
So what is magnetic and gravity forces ? why they act like it act ?
We have ~0 knowledge about infinity. We can define force only for/from our perception.
What do you mean by physical? First, prove that something physical exists and then shall we discuss energy and force Haikel Ben Hamed .
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