How do Platonism, Newtonianism, & Humeanism pull the rabbit out of the hat by a process of substitution?
An objective term/number substitutes for & thereby replaces an event in which we are involved (Dasein). “We are defining a rule [a recurrent pattern of life] through a representation of” the event. Obviously the term is not the event, nor does it evoke the event even in memory. It covers over the subjective experience; it substitutes for it. As in Cartesian physics, the lived event is translated or mapped unto a strange medium or space, which is not lived or subjectively experienced. “But then intellectualism [language] enters the picture, & we slide easily into seeing the rule-as-represented [the syntax/order in language] as somehow causally operative,” or predictive of life events. Isn’t this magic? Paleolithic hunters painted the corpses they buried with red ochre to substitute for blood & vivify the dead in an alternative/magical world. Priests bless the laity & perform sacraments. Physicists translate life events by mapping/conjuring them with numbers. “We see the rule-as-represen
