Comment by SophyPhilia on 14/09/2024 at 05:21 UTC

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View submission: How does your metaphysics influence your free will belief? What is reality 'made of' in your opinion?

I am i fluenced by four category ontology of E J Lowe. We get the four division from Universal vs particular and Substantial vs nonsubstantial. So a chair (particular substance) is of the kind chair (universal kind), and it is red (it has a red trope or mode) which is instance of universal propertt of redness (property). From there metaphysics is to find the essence of things and categorize them based on their identity conditions, find their powers, etc. For humans, you get a noncartesian dualistics view as we have a physical psychological substance "person" different from the animal "human being". Persons have the spontaneous power of will. Of course the ontology extends to space, time, events, etc.

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