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Is atheism about reality? January 2025

My hope for 2025 is to introduce a set of new ideas into conversations about the nature of reality. But the ideas I aim to share are not properly about reality; they are about what reality is not like.

How is that even interesting?

My argument begins with a belief - that reality is profoundly free. From there I develop an argument that there is no feature of the physical world A such that A=A. I.e., self-identity (or "reflexivity") is not a property of the physical world. I call this claim the unreality of logic and interpret it physically as a form of ontic vagueness with qualities that have real-world implications. Perhaps most controversially: the claim that reality is fundamentally amathematical such that any mathematical statement about reality ought to fail if we can take sufficiently precise measurements.

Over the course of 2025 I'll post bite-sized ideas here. I hope you'll read the paper if you are interested in this sort of thing, and please do share with folks who might be interested. Let me know what you think including questions, suggestions and counterarguments by email to adam at philosophy dot place.

Open access PDF Ontic Vagueness: The Argument from Freedom
Kindle version Ontic Vagueness: The Argument from Freedom