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Introduction
Everything is Motion
The Error is that Things Exist or Not
Pharmakon
Every "being" is opposite-and-equal force or potential which offsets
Liberalism is next-tier twittery, sarcasm and hypocrisy, i.e., farce


Agency is the error force-and-existence, bigotedly fundamentalistically confirmed by spirit, soul or psyche
Force is the intersubjective field of persons and personifications that are the cancer
Human scapegoating (blaming, shaming and destruction are the error agency and action
Agency is fallacy, self-deception and mental disorder (fsm=force, f)
Fallacy is the errors f as psychology in logic, law, rhetoric and politics


Everything is motion, which is point, time, word and man
Spacetime is time dimensional. That it is space is the error that is the mayhem.
'To exist' is the error force, f
Physical force as explanation of pattern or motion is the error f
The physical universe sums to null
Any non-word words e.g. force, power and control (fpc) are the error f (fpc=f)
Definition as intension and semiotics as extension are the error f
Word is virtual derivative point and motion
Word is 0d actual (a point) and therefore non-actual 3d
3d symbol, 2d index or 1d icon are the point-3d, volume
The icon is the point, line
the index is the point, plane
the symbol is the point, volume
Any idea that words are insufficient is the incompleteness that is the mayhem


The Next-tier Scapegoating Triad? re. The Dark Triad
1. Psychology is Logical Fallacy
2. The Psyche is Self-deception
3. Psychiatry is Mental disorder


Words category


The physical universe as real or imaginary dichotomy is f
Location and dimensions are point
Number is Property
Property is point


Transpersonal systems are authoritarian hierarchy
Introduction
The Evolving Self
Integral Theory
Spiral Dynamics SD
Spiral Dynamics autocracy


The normal and natural institutions are force ismus
Religion is f religionism
Psychology is f psychologism
Science is f scientism
Economics is f econocism
Politics is f politicism
Law is f legalism
Philosophy is f philosophism
Conservation is f conservationism


Progressivism is to conservatism as metastasis is to cancer
The error is f
The inevitable result of f progressivist social justice war is next-tier fascism-and-communism
Conservative fascism is truth-fundamentalism, or eugenics (attrition)
Progressive fascism/communism is lie-fundamentalism, or dysgenics (riot)


Index


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Because Without Cause,
non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics
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Marc Lange

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Contents


0. Preface? xi
0.1 Welcome
0.2 What this book is not about
0.3 Coming attractions

Part 1: Scientific Explanations by Constraint

1. What Makes a Scientific Explanation Distinctively Mathematical? 3
1.1 Distinctively mathematical explanations in science as non-causal scientific explanations 3
1.2 Are distinctively mathematical explanations set apart by their failure to cite causes? 12
1.3 Mathematical explanations do not exploit causal powers 22
1.4 How these distinctively mathematical explanations work 25
1.5 Elaborating my account of distinctively mathematical explanations 32
1.6 Conclusion 44
2. "There Sweep Great General Principles Which All The Laws Seem To Follow" 46
2.1 The task: to unpack the title of this chapter 46
2.2 Constraints versus coincidences 49
2.3 Hybrid explanations 58
2.4 Other possible kinds of constraints besides conservation laws 64
2.5 Constraints as modally more exalted than the force laws they constrain 68
2.6 My account of the difference between constraints and coincidences 72
2.7 Accounts that rule out explanations by constraint 86
3. The Lorentz Transformations and the Structure of Explanations by Constraint 96
3.1 Transformation laws as constraints or coincidences 96
3.2 The Lorentz transformations given an explanation by constraint 100
3.3 Principle versus constructive theories 112
3.4 How this non-causal explanation comes in handy 123
3.5 How explanations by constraint work 128
3.6 Supplying information about the source of a constraint's necessity 136
3.7 What makes a constraint "explanatorily fundamental"? 141
Appendix: A purely kinematical derivation of the Lorentz transformations 145
4. The Parallelogram of Forces and the Autonomy of Statics 150
4.1 A forgotten controversy in the foundations of classical physics 150
4.2 The dynamical explanation of the parallelogram of forces 154
4.3 Duchayla's statical explanation 159
4.4 Poisson's statical explanation 167
4.5 Statical explanation under some familiar accounts of natural law 173
4.6 My account of what is at stake 178

Part 2: Two Other Varieties of Non-Causal Explanation in Science

5. Really Statistical Explanations and Genetic Drift 189
5.1 Introduction to Part 2 189
5.2 RS (Really Statistical) explanations 190
5.3 Drift 196
6. Dimensional Explanations 204
6.1 A simple dimensional explanation 204
6.2 A more complicated dimensional explanation 209
6.3 Different features of a derivative law may receive different dimensional explanations 215
6.4 Dimensional homogeneity 219
6.5 Independence from some other quantities as part of a dimensional explanans 221

Part 3. Explanation in Mathematics

7. Aspects of Mathematical Explanation: Symmetry, Salience, and Simplicity 231
7.1 Introduction to proofs that explain why mathematical theorems holds 231
7.2 Zeitz's biased coin: A suggestive example of mathematical explanation 234
7.3 Explanation by symmetry 238
7.4 A theorem explained by a symmetry in the unit imaginary number 239
7.5 Geometric explanations that exploit symmetry 245
7.6 Generalizing the proposal 254
7.7 Conclusion 268
8. Mathematical Coincidences and Mathematical Explanations That Unify 276
8.1 What is a mathematical coincidence? 276
8.2 Can mathematical coincidence be understood without appealing to mathematical explanation? 283
8.3 A mathematical coincidence's components have no common proof 287
8.4 A shift of context may change a proof's explanatory power 298
8.5 Comparison to other proposals 304
8.6 Conclusion 311
9 Desargues' Theorem as a Case Study of Mathematical Explanation, Existence, and Natural Properties 314
9.1 Introduction 314
9.2 Three proofs - but only one explanation - of Desargues' theorem in two-dimensional Euclidean geometry 315
9.3 Why Desargues' theorem in two-dimensional Euclidean geometry is explained by an exit to the third dimension 323
9.4 Desargues' theorem in projective geometry: unification and existence in mathematics 327
9.5 Desargues' theorem in projective geometry: explanation and natural properties in mathematics 335
9.6 Explanation by subsumption under a theorem 341
9.7 Conclusion 345

Part 4: Explanations in Mathematics and Non-Causal Scientific Explanations -- Together

10 Mathematical Coincidence and Scientific Explanation 349
10.1 Physical coincidences that are no mathematical coincidence 349
10.2 Explanations from common mathematical form 350
10.3 Explanations from common dimensional architecture 361
10.4 Targeting new explananda 368
11 What Makes Some Reducible Physical Properties Explanatory? 371
11.1 Some Reducible Properties Are Natural 371
11.2 Centers of mass and reduced mass 378
11.3 Reducible properties on Strevens's account of scientific explanation 381
11.4 Dimensionless quantities as explanatorily powerful reducible properties 384
11.5 My proposal 386
11.6 Conclusion: all varieties of explanation as species of the same genus 394
Notes 401
References 461
Index 483

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