Reality can be studied at different levels, so forms of “levelism” have often been advocated in the past.[^1] In the 1970s, levelism nicely dovetailed with the computational turn and became a standard approach both in science and in philoso…Likewise, the use of predicates is essential in subjects like information and computer science, where discrete observables are paramount and hence predicates are required to describe a system behaviour. In particular, state-based methods li…Second, the method is anti-metaphysical, again in a Kantian sense. Metaphysics is—when used as a negative label—what is done by sloppy reasoning when it pretends to develop a theory without taking into consideration, at least implicitly, th…
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