PHL210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Big Bang, Human Nature, Real Simple
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Is the world completely determinate if a substance contains all its predicates. How does this relate to the physical world. Physical world: given god created the world, all our laws of physics are necessary. World from physical point of view is physically determinate. Inability to have perfect knowledge of perfect world, cause we don"t have enough information. Facts of newtonian physics, was a determinate physics. Most of time you don"t have complete knowledge of initial positions. All deterministic principles hold in the physical world. What is story between physical world and underlying reality we don"t perceive. Underlying reality gives rise to physical reality. Material body: looks real to us, from god"s point of view it"s not real. Simple substances coexist in principle or pre established substances. Material laws, obey laws of cause and effect. Squish two bodies together, there will be resistance. Laws of motion and physics look like they apply in the world, illustration of god"s perception.
