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Hello Banno, Although I cannot speak for what ucarr is saying (as I haven’t read it), I just would like to take this opportunity to clarify some misco...
August 04, 2023 at 12:29
Hello Count, I think the former definition is inadequate (as that is really just the definition of ‘emergence’, not strong emergence), but the latter ...
August 04, 2023 at 12:19
Hello Javi, Correct me if I am wrong, but then it sounds like you are simply completely disagreeing with me, no? What are we in agreement about then? ...
August 04, 2023 at 12:19
Hello Javi, I see. Unfortunately, I am not entirely following where our disagreement lies: could you please refresh my memory as to what, then, you ar...
August 03, 2023 at 12:19
Hello Hypericin, You positing something very thought provoking! Let me see if I can adequately respond. Firstly, I would say that propositions are sta...
August 03, 2023 at 12:18
Hello 180 Proof, I appreciate your response: let me try to adequately respond. How does that make it a form of pseudo-science? I am not claiming that ...
August 03, 2023 at 00:19
Hello charles, Kastrup usually starts by positing a mind-at-large as the best account of reality (to explain consciousness and newer empirical knowled...
August 03, 2023 at 00:10
Hello Pantagruel, This is interesting, but, unfortunately, I am not familiar with systems theory and that is why I was asking your system theoretic vi...
August 03, 2023 at 00:09
Hello Javi, I see. I am just a bit confused, as if you agree with my position, then wouldn’t that entail you agree with my definition? Or are you only...
August 03, 2023 at 00:09
Hello Pantagruel, Then how do you account for the hard problem of interaction? Interesting, could you elaborate on “process ontology” a bit more?
August 02, 2023 at 12:26
Hello 180 Proof, I gave an argument here in the OP for a mind-dependent, qualitative world: let’s start there. What premise (or premises) did you disa...
August 02, 2023 at 12:26
Hello Banno, Excellent! I am surprised that no one has offered this parody yet, as I was fully expecting it. As you can already anticipate, I deny P1 ...
August 02, 2023 at 12:24
Hello javi, But this is a contradiction in terms: you can’t have a perspectiveless perspective, nor a non-perceiver perception. This is true, but I do...
August 02, 2023 at 12:24
Hello Charles, Spinoza, I would say, was arguing that the one substance is God, which doesn’t entail in itself a mind nor something mind-independent. ...
August 02, 2023 at 12:24
Hello Banno, I deny that “sucking on one teaspoon of sugar” is a quantitative process. The teaspoon, the sugar, and the act of sucking the sugar from ...
August 02, 2023 at 01:58
Hello Count, Wonderful post! I agreed with a lot of it. I am not sure how ‘truth’ as an relation between subject and object would entail strong emerge...
August 02, 2023 at 01:58
Hello Schopenhauer1, The argument itself doesn’t quite get you to Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism, but it does get to objective idealism (or actually I ma...
August 02, 2023 at 01:58
Hello T Clark, Interesting, I would say metaphysical claims are facts (or at least purported facts). Metaphysics, I would say, is the study of that wh...
August 02, 2023 at 01:53
Hello Charles, In my opinion, God, as a person that perceives, just doesn’t work as a parsimonious account of reality. Reality seems, empirically spea...
August 02, 2023 at 01:53
Hello javi, With your definition here, I don’t see the actual disagreement with what I said, as the act of perceiving requires a subject. So truth, ev...
August 02, 2023 at 01:53
Hello Philosophim, Same goes to you my friend! What do you mean by “apple”? To me, that is just ungrammatical and, thusly, does not reference anything...
August 02, 2023 at 01:52
Hello Pantagruel, Very interesting, let me try to pick your brain a bit. Given your invocation of Kant, would you say that there is a mind-independent...
August 02, 2023 at 01:52
Hello javi, Correct. Interesting! I didn’t really follow plato’s definition: how exactly are you defining truth then? Is it a platonic form for you? T...
August 01, 2023 at 12:44
Hello chiknsld, (: I appreciate you sharing this with me, and I will address it as adequately as I can in a moment; but I wanted to disclaim that appe...
August 01, 2023 at 12:44
Hello Pantagruel, Interesting: I am not quite following, but let me try to respond. What we know of immediatelly is subjectivity, and an ‘object’ in t...
August 01, 2023 at 12:43
Hello Inyenzi, That is awesome! That, indeed, would be odd; thankfully, objective idealism makes no such postulation: when you examine dead organisms,...
August 01, 2023 at 12:43
Hello Philosophim! That is fair. A quantity is ‘an definite amount’ (e.g., 3 m/s^2, 1 meter, 4 newtons, 80 volts, etc.); and a quality is ‘a non-quant...
August 01, 2023 at 12:40
Hello 180 Proof, By ‘objective’, I mean ‘that which is mind-independent’ and by ‘mind-at-large’ I mean that reality is fundamentally a mind. That mind...
August 01, 2023 at 12:39
Hello Charles Ferraro, I would suggest reading his ‘A Treatise Concerning The Principles of Human Knowledge’, which is a relatively short work outlini...
August 01, 2023 at 00:01
Hello Alkis Piskas, I am not sure if I fully understood the question, but I would say that it is possible for a thing to exist as emergent from the re...
July 31, 2023 at 23:32
Hello T Clark, I would say that objective reality is a mind-at-large, and our conscious experience is a survival-based dashboard of experience of ment...
July 31, 2023 at 23:32
Hello chiknsld, Correct. In my case, it also uses double negation and modus tollens—which I forgot to mention in the argument form: 1. If P, then Q. 2...
July 31, 2023 at 23:32
This is a very good point that I am honestly slapping myself for it! I definitely need to refurbish my definitions, as they are clearly insufficient. ...
July 31, 2023 at 00:52
I must concur with , as you are describing Schopenhauer's the 'Will-to-Live' (as he put it) and, I would say, not really the 'Will-to-Power' nor defin...
July 23, 2023 at 23:53
Intuitions, in the philosophical sense, are what one intellectual immediately grasps of the situation (whereas, in colloquial speech, it can also mean...
July 16, 2023 at 19:29
I agree. Kant, however, was more interested in our representative faculties and assumed, like a lot of people in his time, that newtonian physics woul...
July 09, 2023 at 15:14
I have found that Transcendental Idealism is interpreted very differently depending on the person and Kant was a very poor writer (as far as I am cons...
July 07, 2023 at 18:13
Hello Philosophim, It sounds like you would like to terminate the discussion, so, out of respect, I am going to refrain from responding to your points...
July 06, 2023 at 20:46
Hello Philosophim, Absolutely no worries my friend! I think, with all due respect, that we are completely speaking past each other on this dispute abo...
July 06, 2023 at 18:43
Hello Philosophim, I think we both see that certain aspects of our conversation do not seem to be progressing, so I am going to the parts that I think...
July 05, 2023 at 19:39
Hello Philosophim, I am saying that choosing between “knowledge sets” is a comparison. The moment you decide, by analysis within or without the “induc...
July 05, 2023 at 13:24
Hello Philosophim, I appreciate you summarizing our differences; but if that summary of my position is truly what you think I am claiming, then, with ...
July 04, 2023 at 12:48
Hello Philosophim, I wasn’t saying you use that term in your methodology, but there is no (as of yet) 1:1 term mapping that gets at what I am talking ...
July 03, 2023 at 19:25
Hello Philosophim, Good! I am glad to hear that! You are saying that, as far as I am understanding, the hierarchy which is more cogent is dependent on...
July 02, 2023 at 20:00
Also, to clarify my distinction between the essential properties of an identity of an entity and the relevant factors of resolving a dilemma within a ...
July 01, 2023 at 23:30
Hello Philosophim, I appreciate the elaboration: I see more clearly now what you are and are not saying. I want to say it back to you so as to confirm...
July 01, 2023 at 23:23
Hello Philosophim, You too! Fair enough: I will re-read the OP and the papers (from the previous discussion board); however, I feel as though I am ask...
July 01, 2023 at 17:26
Hello Mikie, Could you elaborate on some of them? Otherwise, I am unsure as to what about my characterization is incorrect. Everything you said along ...
June 30, 2023 at 22:43
Hello Mikie, Although helping the underprivileged is something we should all strive to do, I think that the use of someone's race or gender as a crite...
June 30, 2023 at 16:14
Hello Philosophims, You are confusing what a person can do with what they should do epistemically. It doesn’t matter if a person can act irrationally:...
June 29, 2023 at 13:04