[MD] Questions about Essentialism

[Krimel]

[Ham to Ron]
Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt with 'Kimmel'.

I think the confusion here is a result of looking at existence as a 
"quantitive" reality and seeing its "divisions" in Newtonian or arithmetical

terms.  (By the way, you are using "essent" correctly as the opposite of 
nothingness -- something I find difficult to do.)

[Krimel]
This was a battle fought in the 1600's. I would have thought you got the
memo by now. The foundation of Natural Philosophy was to begin the process
of measurement and quantification and to stop relying on the authority of
Aristotle and the "church". 

Newton is a favorite of mine first because, like me he was a Wizard. He was
the last of the alchemists and the first true scientist. Second he drove the
final nails into the coffin of fuzzy thinking. Today you can think as
fuzzily as you wish but you can no longer expect to be taken seriously when
you do.

Arithmatic? Newton invented calculus. Probability theory is less than two
hundred years old. Chaos theory is less than 30 years old. There are new
tools available to study and understand our position in this world and you
want to throw us back to the muddle of scholasticism. Wake up and smell the
coffee, Ham.