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Comments on Robert Koons's Essay (2018) "Hylomorphic Escalation" (Peirce's Secondness and Aristotle's Hylomorphism, #12)

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Robert C. Koons publishes an article in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (volume 92(1), pages 159-178). The complete title is "Hylomorphic Escalation: An Aristotelian Interpretation of Quantum Thermodynamics and Chemistry".
Koons claims that statistical mechanics does not emerge from quantum mechanics.
Instead, the thermodynamic properties of chemicals are hylomorphic escalations of quantum physics.
Quantum physics describes the parts. Thermodynamics depicts the whole.
He proposes ...

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