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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Metaphysicist's Question About Extended Symbols
Is metaphysics coming in when we're deciding not just instrumental things that physicists like to talk about invoking, but the harder questions of which parts of these are real and actual? I mean, this is kind of interesting. Maybe you don't think of things in this way, but how does tell me if this resonates with you? So certainly not every metaphysician would think this. But a relatively common thought is something like, look, we get asked questions just about what are coherent pictures of what the world is like.
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