Bob Ross

Normality as a paved road is a quote from a philosopher (of which I forget the name): it refers to the fact that authenticity is stamped out by common...

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I’ve always thought Kierkegaard was a subliminal exemplification of a diseased soul: someone that already put the nails in their own coffin, and yet s...

I hope it is not too haunting: it was meant to strike a cord with a certain audience, but still be meaningful for others.

It’s literature: not a poem. Literature is the elegant way of making a point, as well as getting people to think for themselves. I prefer it over thes...

The title is quite misleading: that's my fault. I didn't give moliere a title for it (if I remember correctly). The title should be "Oizys' Garden": t...

Blanketly asserting this doesn’t help further the discussion. I gave an elaborate account of why it is possible and necessary. Here’s what I gathered ...

Yes, but then there isn’t some other substance which can receive potentiality. ‘Matter’ is not a substrate which receives form. The ‘material’ out of ...

My understanding of this would be to say that prime matter would just be being itself (permeated through forms); because matter is only ‘conserved’ in...

I appreciate your guys' thoughts on this. Here's what I am thinking. "Matter" is 'that which has the potential to receive form'; and 'form' is the 'ac...

Atomism is false because it posits two or more absolutely simple beings and an absolutely simple being is ontologically indistinguishable from another...

But then matter is something: it isn’t pure potency. There is a something that is receptive to change—fair enough. If matter is just that which has th...

Yeah, it is strange haha. I submitted it a long time ago, forgot about it, and thought the title was something else. That's all I'll say for now: keep...

I don't think mine in the list lol. There's 13 and 13, so maybe there's another person that participated?

I appreciate your response and that all sounds interesting, but right now I am trying to understand hylomorphism simpliciter (viz., the OG theory). I ...

This gets at the heart of my confusion: hopefully you can help clarify it. If the intellect, or anything, has no matter but has potential; then matter...

I think I see what you are saying here, now: I was conflating formality with 'structure of being'. The form of a thing provides the structure of a thi...

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Chewing over this more, here's what I'm thinking. What tripped me up is really Aquinas' view that a thing could exist that...

I don't really disagree with what you said here; but then isn't the arrangement of parts the form and the matter is just the parts themselves? Let's A...

@"Leontiskos" I already asked Timothy this, but I am curious as to your thoughts as well: What do you think?

Well, yes, but it is required for change to occur. It seems like you are separate causality a prior from causality a posteriori; and I guess I don’t s...

The arrangement of the parts which makes the whole that whole of this type is the form imposed upon parts (actuality imposed on actuality); and if thi...

My problem with Aristotle’s view seems to be that he posits some real nothingness (potency) which is conjoined with the actual thing; whereas I am thi...

But by ‘matter’ he is not referring having mass but, rather, a substrate of potential—right? If so, then how does this seed’s actuality (form) conjoin...

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@"Banno" I think the problem is that your approach doesn't even attempt to rise to the level of a conception from intuitions; and for me it has to in ...

Is the word 'assent' in this post mean anything different than 'to agree or affirm'? I get the feeling it is doing more work here in your explanation ...

Yes, I think so.

Thank you for the recommendations! I will check those out.

I'm just noting it is at least logically possible. I am a theist that does not believe in an eternal immaterial mind/soul but that because God is all ...

@"Banno" Ok, so, to you, faith is 'trust in an authority to verify the truth or falsity of a claim in a manner where it is dogmatic'. Is that right? I...

Agnosticism traditionally refers to the suspension of judgment, and your etymological-style definition is a rather new emergence in colloquial spheres...

This is just a giant begging of the question. My point was that your beliefs about scientific propositions are largely faith-based, whether you like i...

I think the real issue is that when considering the dignity of the offended the punishment is supposed to proportionately reflect it; but how can a fi...

As far as I can tell, genuinely, you believe 'faith' has a plurality of meanings and that it has to do with (1) trust and (2) believing despite the ev...

That's a good point: I like that.

This is fair to a certain extent: I get what you mean, but I do think it is the philosopher’s duty to try to rise the conversation to a level of ample...

Ok, let's roll with it **rolls up sleeves**: Believing, e.g., that black holes exist depends, at least in part, on trusting the scientists that are pu...

Yes. E.g., murder is a larger offense than saying something mean.

I thought by 'eternal' you meant having a part of oneself that is not subject to time. I don't see how this is necessitated from eternal punishment; e...

I don't believe @"Banno" or @"Janus" are even attempting to give a clear definition of what faith is. Instead, they are using notions without clarifyi...

No, you are absolutely correct; and that’s what I was arguing. The aspect of the sin which pertains to offending God is an offense against a being wit...

Banno, I am not asking for a historical account of what faith means; and I understand you seem to take a pluralist account of faith. I am wondering wh...

This isn't really true if we are talking about the scientific beliefs the average person has. The average person cannot verify or at least has not ver...

That’s fair. What I should have said is that the major and minor premise of a syllogism are both assertions. Fair enough. In principle, a sin is a con...

Yes, I understand where you are coming from; as I used to also be in a similar mindset. After all, this is what the new atheism movement has produced ...

Ok, but what do you take 'faith' to be? Do you not have a precise definition? If not, then it seems like you are just working with vague intuitions yo...

I find this account GPT gave to be fitting in terms of the resources it has available and its current ability to "reason". It is right that faith aris...

This agrees with what I was saying, so I am confused as to what you are critiquing of mine. A purely faith-based belief would, indeed, be one which is...