The Claim
Core properties invoked in physicalist or materialist metaphysics, including mass, time, momentum, and color, cannot be ontologically reduced to an underlying substrate that would count as traditionally physical under Newtonian or pre-quantum-mechanical standards.
The evidence does not support the sweeping assertion of ontological irreducibility. Newtonian physics already treated mass, absolute time, and momentum as physical fundamentals, while classical accounts often explained color through primary qualities. Modern relativity, quantum theory, and unresolved color debates complicate those historical models, but they do not establish that reduction to every traditionally physical substrate is impossible.
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Modern physics does not treat matter as a fundamental material substance in…
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The fundamental physical basis from which mass emerges is not yet fully understood.
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Mass is an emergent phenomenon rather than an intrinsic property of…
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