You're baking a cake. When you do this, are you claiming that all of what baking a cake entails is non-existent? Your parents conceived you. Does proc...
Do you agree that philosophy has an interest in distilling those attributes common to all types of metaphysics deemed valid? This interest strives tow...
As I read the Wikipedia definition above, it claims that process (a fluid, dynamical phenomenon) is the principal operator in Process philosophy. Othe...
Since the world can be understood through a lens either physicalist or non-physicalist, and moreover, since the practice of (western) academic physics...
You quote me incorrectly. Below is a correct rendering of the quote. I'm trying to render "non-existent" with a counterpart definition using language ...
Your above statements are not intelligible unless one assumes (the limitations of verbal language acknowledged) they're predicated upon your commitmen...
The Natural and the Supernatural, being related by contrast (a complicated affair) don't strongly suggest themselves to me as being counterparts. If G...
If you make this claim aboard the premise that physics_metaphysics are associates with considerable measure of reciprocity of grounding functions and ...
If there's no definitive causal relationship between metaphysics and physics, such that metaphysics is an epiphenomenon of physics, or, perhaps, vice-...
Suppose that non-existence = unspecifiably small volume of unlimited application. Consider: Predetermination is not existence. The infinitive "to be" ...
No doubt of this on my part. I'm arguing that our Rosetta Stone of knowledge, the axiom, gets most directly approached by science, not metaphysics. Th...
This is my central point of reference in our discussion. The interweave of philosophy_science, acting as a control that modulates my range of argument...
Some interesting puzzles of perspective here. Here you describe a thing coming into existence already predetermined what it will be.... Predeterminati...
I grant that the scope of philosophy encompasses science, thus making the latter conceivable as a sub-division of the former. However, evidence contra...
I align with Sartre regarding existence preceding essence. Through science I see that existence, not thought, is the ground of reality. That scientist...
Good amendments - metaphysics makes no propositions? - I do, however, give science one up from philosophy because axioms are better vetted when subjec...
I agree with much of this. There's a tight interweave between science and philosophy. I do think science without philosophy fares better than the reve...
That's how I see it. I claim tentatively that when logical narrative runs aground in paradox, said paradox, being a higher-order dimension in collapse...
Partisan punditry boils down to money. Spinning narratives that glorify consumers is the stock in trade of the snake oil salesperson. If you plausibly...
One big step towards good teaching is to perform instruction rather than to talk instruction. The way to perform instruction is to become an actor in ...
This is what a good teacher makes her students experience and feel directly and naturally. No facts and figures hammered into memory, just a direct ex...
Do we read symbolic language as we read verbal language? Is a logical narrative, like a verbal narrative, a continuity of signs that must be decoded a...
How high did you climb before jumping off? My claim animal instincts are consistent with reason doesn't imply natural preclusion of irrational thinkin...
When you put your hand onto something hot and it burns you, you yank your hand away. Many call this a reflex without conscious thought. I call it high...
Interesting question. What I've worked out for myself, so far, is that logic, basically, is continuity parsed. Whole into parts via analysis and, in r...
You're right. I've been using "language" and "linguistic" to convey "intentional communication capable." If "language," by definition, means verbal ex...
I put your closing, parenthetical statement in bold because it places you on my side of the aisle re: the debate. Yes. Communication of information is...
Yes. I agree that the logical operations of the mind enacting goal-oriented behavior begins in toddlers who lack verbal language. "Introduction," as u...
At an early point in this conversation - I think before your entrance - some correspondents - now dropped out - attacked my claim that logical thinkin...
I should have written, "sustains damage to the brain's speech component..." I think the gist of the argument of RussellA and me (apologies if I misrep...
Since I agree with the above, I think you and I are walking the same path in our journeys through this conversation. With the above, we come to the gn...
:smile: Alright. We're on the same page re: grammar_logic_(intentional) communication. If we suppose a human individual sustains damage to the brain's...
In this context, does lexical layer refer to a range of movements bees can make? I'm experiencing a natural impulse to balk at construing by-product-o...
So, in your view, mental manipulation of abstract concepts is the marker distinguishing humans within animal kingdom. Are you suggesting, with the abo...
The gist of my argument herein comes down to the following pithy claim: logic = motion + intent The scope of this claim is broadly inclusive. It begs ...
Hello, Athena, What about pets? Out of the whole animal kingdom, about 150 species can be domesticated for life alongside humans in friendship. We're ...
Speculation Vs Scholarship > Your cautionary alert is appropriate and good. Of course we rabble come to public forums to cluck cluck like roosters hav...
I agree with this. It's good advice. Plain English is the best approach and I'm working on it. Anyone who wants to label me profound is welcome to do ...
"Come here," being a command, contains the implied subject "you." If we're stretching definitions here, then I say that a better characterization is t...
Yeah. My attempt at reasoning herein lies sprawled across a long block chain of (supposedly) connected ideas. See below where Hallucinogen does an exc...
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