I don't see how you arrive at your above interpretation from my claim directly below it. The gist of my current inquiry into your understandings about...
In this thread, do you propound a premise that claims something like saying “the natural world contains parts inscrutable to science”? Furthermore, is...
When I write "natural world," I'm not referring to science & what it claims. I'm referring to earth as humans find it upon the awakening of their cons...
Three claims: The motion of a material object is associated with a positive interval of time. A positive interval of time supports duration. When a ma...
I think your above response gives a substantial & thought-provoking answer to my question. If there exist human attributes parallel to the natural wor...
I see that your two ontologies, as inspired by Sellars, stand in a somewhat parallel relationship to each other. Do you think their interrelationship ...
Is the distinction to the effect that manifest ontology = via the senses and scientific ontology = via reasoned understanding based upon experimentati...
Do you give credence to the concept of soul? If you do, might that be a candidate for self? Do you discover what's extant by determining what cannot b...
Okay. We all know people can change, however, you view self as tilting towards stability & permanence. Is it correct to characterize you as being cons...
Let me repeat what I just posted. If that's not enough, here it is from the dictionary. un-1 | ?n | prefix 1 (added to adjectives, participles, and th...
You say I’m monologuing with myself, thus implying my oblivion WRT key statements articulated by you. Let’s examine your claim by going down the above...
Be that as it may, I hope you see my intention is to dialogue with you, not ignore you. If I fail utterly to understand your positions, that's a good ...
Non-oppositional & non-exclusionary are modifiers I apply to the real/unreal polarities at the center of your metaphysical acid test. In claiming the ...
06-13-22 Chapter 01 I begin my closing statement by claiming What is a question? is not an impossible question. Difficult, yes. Impossible, no. Let me...
You rendered me an important service when you responded to my closing statement, chapter 01. A timeless universe, as implied by my original statement,...
Do you claim in the above you are not propounding a method of discovery by what you conclude to be proper procedure? If I understand correctly what is...
Of course I'm reading my own concerns into what you've expressed here. Nothing unusual (or improper) about that. Don't you sometimes read your own con...
As I understand you, you're claiming a, b, & c cannot make concerted attacks upon the individual's power to choose freely unless individuality is unde...
Your above claims are congruent with the claims that motivated them i.e. my previous claims. This shows we're surveying the same general terrain of da...
This looks like the two (supposed) polarities get expressed, one in terms of the other. This is entanglement. Contrast ? independence. Your configurat...
Do you understand metaphysics as Aristotle understood it? He thought it was a label, as a part of a classification system, when he coined the word rig...
What I've learned in our conversation - I go on at length when a brief statement will do; I indulge whimsy to the detriment of my position; I grossly ...
If I cannot state, without doubt, the essential nature of a thing, and yet, there is no doubt I'm looking at & contemplating the nature of an existing...
The guy's in love with the woman, but he thinks she had a fling with him on the rebound from her broken relationship with the father of Felice. Should...
The above implies What is a question? encompasses a spectrum of possible identities. Please list some members of this spectrum, especially those membe...
Without doubt a high quality story. I agree with all of the praising feedback posted here. Grinch like, I will add a few quibbles. The jump here is a ...
I think maybe this statement contains a whiff of as regards nothing being paradoxically contained_not contained within the domain in which nothing is ...
For a strong example of individuality (& its gnarly complications), please click the link below. It connects to a short story on this website by 180 P...
Have you encountered mountain ranges of new ideas for good living that aren't pro forma reiterations of proverbs, aphorisms, biblical quotes, folklore...
So, nothing is existential whereas nothingness is categorical, and thus metaphysics is an empty but not meaningless category. Wow! I got an informatio...
I begin my closing statement by claiming What is a question? is not an impossible question. Difficult, yes. Impossible, no. Let me start with my first...
Empty space ? nothing. If it's a false dichotomy, then nothing, being an existing thing, is something, not nothing. Therefore, empty space, likewise b...
I choose to attack the challenge to answer this question by looking upon it as raising an issue of perspective. When someone asks the question, "Why i...
Both of course and of convention, you're right. How many, for example, spend quality time pondering what it means, logically speaking, to ask a questi...
As you again attack with Occam's Razor, I'll make bold & declare that logic_math_science operate meticulously, expansively & successfully between the ...
Premise -- A question, if it's pertinent to the answer it seeks, shares a link with said answer that is a variant of the transitive property. Question...
I have no intention to ignore, ultimately, the many applications of question in context, with multiple grammatical_syntactical variations etc. Lawyers...
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