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I'm not particularly a determinist btw.
When considering the first hard problem (why there is something rather than nothing) it is often formulated as the Mind, Math, Matter problem as all solutions fall into one of those categories. Idealism is the Mind camp. realism/physicalism/materialism in the Matter camp and the third camp is platonic. Not really a good term but is based on Platos' "Forms". So any first cause that postulates say "Math" falls under platonism. It's not really a dualist position in the normative sense. There isn't really a separation of realms or whatever dualists believe.
Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 13/09/2024 at 06:06 UTC
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something rather than nothing isn't a hard problem for me because of causality. As rational thinkers, we don't want to get into nothing causing something. So in that regard nominalism is for people who struggle to think things through
I'm not particularly a determinist btw.
A fatalist is functionally the same as a determinist. Both preclude free will by advocating the totally inevitable universe. I'm not sure Plato or the neoplatonists saw this kind of universe. Others on this sub see Spinoza as a determinist. I'm unconvinced.