{"id":354,"date":"2016-06-24T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T12:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=354"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:50","slug":"appendix-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX V:"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"min-height: 700px\">\n<div class=\"pc pc77 w0 h0\">\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y598 ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">APPENDIX V<span class=\"_ _e\"><\/span>:<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y599 ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y59a ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Hypothesizing about Cosmic<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h6d y59b ff1c fs29 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Origins<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y59c ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Clearly<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>, this \u2013<br \/>\n                hypothesizing about cosmic origins \u2013 <span class=\"ff1b\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y59d ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">is the most challenging aspect of metaphysics.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y59e ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y59f ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">Now<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>, while one can write<br \/>\n                with conviction about the\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a0 ff1c fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">elegance<span class=\"ff19\"> of a hypothesis, one cannot truly write <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a1 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">with conviction about the <span class=\"ff1c\">validity <\/span>of<br \/>\n                a cosmological\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y5a7 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">hypothesis.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y5a2 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a3 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">But the near<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>-certain <span class=\"ff1c\">validity<span class=\"ff1b\"> <span class=\"ff2b\">per se<\/span><\/span><\/span>, of a<br \/>\n                cosmological\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a4 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">hypothesis is not truly the conceptualizer\u2019<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>s goal.\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y5a5 ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a6 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">For<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>, in dealing with the<br \/>\n                realms of the in\ue0c4nite and cosmic\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a8 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">origins, our levels of consciousness to date (and<br \/>\n                perhaps\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5a9 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">for a long time to come) may simply be inadequate\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h2d y5aa ff1b fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5ab ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">A worthwhile goal, however<span class=\"_ _0\"><\/span>,<br \/>\n                would be a more <span class=\"ff1c\">dynamic <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5ac ff1c fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">and elegant<span class=\"ff19\"> hypothesis than has hitherto been offer<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>ed. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5ad ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">That is what Summa proposes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5ae ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">We seek to advance forwar<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>d<br \/>\n                \u2013 another layer or two \u2013\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5af ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">towards cracking the cosmic code. W<span class=\"_ _2\"><\/span>e do not presume\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"t m1 x73 h55 y5b0 ff19 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0\">to articulate the penultimate core.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPENDIX V: Hypothesizing about Cosmic Origins Clearly, this \u2013 hypothesizing about cosmic origins \u2013 is the most challenging aspect of metaphysics. Now, while one can write with conviction about the elegance of a hypothesis, one cannot truly write with conviction about the validity of a cosmological hypothesis. But the near-certain validity per se, of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}