Nominalist Determinism III: The Architecture of Rationality

In Nominalist Determinism, the scrutinizing focus is the semantic audit. By addressing not only what words mean in the vernacular but also the limits of what words can possibly mean given the constraints of the natural world, we gain a mechanical advantage: the ability to constrain our models within the known habits of matter. Combined with what we know of the physical world—the habits of matter and space, as well as biological and psychological "laws" at higher levels of organization—this audit...