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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Philosophy''' — in the sense relevant to this wiki, '''natural philosophy''': the study of nature by reasoning about what it must be like, as distinct from the purely mathematical and instrumental approach that displaced it.<br />
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The name of this wiki is not decorative. "Natural philosophy" was what physics was called before the twentieth century, and the researchers catalogued here generally hold that the change of name marked a change of practice — that physics stopped asking what things ''are'' and settled for predicting what they will do.<br />
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[[:Category:Philosophy|Category: Philosophy]] holds over 160 items.<br />
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==The recurring positions==<br />
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* '''Determinism and causality''' — that every effect has a physical cause, and that a statistical description is an admission of ignorance rather than a description of nature. This underlies much of the criticism of [[Quantum Mechanics|quantum mechanics]] catalogued here.<br />
* '''[[Infinity]]''' — whether the universe is finite or infinite is treated by several authors as the foundational choice from which the rest follows. See [[Glenn Borchardt]]'s [[Infinite Universe Theory]] and [[Peter F Erickson]]'s work on the infinitesimal, which reaches the opposite conclusion about divisibility.<br />
* '''Realism about the unobservable''' — whether fields, spacetime and the wave function are real things or calculational devices.<br />
* '''The reality of motion and change''' — [[Eternal Universe|eternal-universe]] positions, and the argument that matter and motion are inseparable.<br />
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==Distinguish from philosophy of science==<br />
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This category holds work on the ''content'' of nature — what exists, what causes what. Work on the ''method'' of science — evidence, falsifiability, definition, the sociology of the field — is collected under [[Philosophy of Science]], which is the larger body on this wiki.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Philosophy of Science]]<br />
* [[Infinity]] · [[Energy]] · [[Eternal Universe]]<br />
* [[Physics]] · [[John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society]]<br />
* [[:Category:Philosophy|Category: Philosophy]]<br />
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