TheMadFool

Climate change is not a disease, it's a symptom. I know quite a few doctors and they all say, while relieving the symptom has its merits, treating the...

Another issue with the heap paradox, taking the example fat, seems to hinge on the distinction subjectivity-objectivity. At one end (thin) - grey zone...

All I'm willing to say is, it's rather odd that the mind has set up a criteria for telling the difference between physical and nonphysical, has applie...

I thought of it that way too but if the set of points in a line segment is a completed infinity, it should be possible to make a list of them and...wa...

1. If you're not afraid to die then it doesn't matter whether you live or die If 1 is flawed then, the following seems more suited to your tastes. 2. ...

It's our little secret! G'day

So, you want to live! 1. If you're not afraid to die then it doesn't matter whether you live or die. 2. If you want to live it matters whether you liv...

:up: But... Is it possible that vagueness is an illusion? Take the heap/sorites paradox. The heap-ness has nothing at all to do with the sand grains i...

I wasn't clear enough. My bad! Pain has dual functionality - it signals injury and death (heralds death) and for that reason serves as an early warnin...

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:ok: Are you eager to die? Also, how am I to tell the difference between someone who suicides (no fear of death) and you (no fear of death)? Why aren'...

You're contradicting yourself! No harm though! I do that often and look at me - I'm still alive! Survival of the fittest! or as I prefer it, survival ...

Then, you do fear death! By the way, this really isn't what I want to discuss. Thanks though!

:up: Mr. Black was a very important man. In fact that was a meiosis - Mr. Black was not just a very important man, he was the most important man, not ...

Matter is anything that has mass and volume.

What does that mean? You need to get your basics right. How could one refute sans a definition? Your befuddlement is understandable. I too am equally ...

Ok! Great! Anyway, it doesn't matter to my argument. I don't know why I brought it up! Was it you? You misunderstand me. The achievements of physicist...

You're contradicting yourself. If it's scientific, it's better in the eyes of "someone". Anyway, I don't mind that it's scientific. In fact, my whole ...

I get what you mean. It's better to posit a physical cause rather than a nonphysical cause if something inexplicable is observed. That's the whole poi...

Unfortunately or not, this is false. The argument from physics clearly states that if the mind were nonphysical then physical laws would be violated.

:lol: You need to see a shrink!

To the above to esteemed forum members. I'm a bit confused here. What's the relationship between the nonphysical and physical laws? 4 possibilities ar...

I would be equivocating iff I use two different meanings of the word "greater". I'm not. The word "greater" is inherently quantitative. It even has it...

To both of the above two esteemed forum members: Physicalism: Everything is matter & energy Nonphysicalism: Physicalism is false (some things are not ...

So? You say it as if that's wrong. Those are waypoints we've already crossed. I'm disinclined to return to ground already covered. Sorry. I'm employin...

It's not my position but I'm merely toeing the official lines as it were. By the way, we're talking about the mind only and it can't be both physical ...

Don't talk about pain. Pain is the true prophet, not sleep like @"180 Proof" thinks, of death! Pain exists to keep death at bay - a stitch in time sav...

You don't fear death? Why? Perhaps you mean there's somebody you know who doesn't fear death. Again, why?

Every living creature fears death. Discussing this is flogging a dead horse! What we should be really doing is try and discover what death fears. That...

Imagine a Mr. S who's, for some reason, always blindfolded. On Monday, he's taken to a room and his blindfolds are removed. He looks around the room, ...

Air has weight but air is invisible! So, no I don't mean invisible. Glass, the plain kind, too is invisible but definitely not nonphysical.

is quantitative. If you don't believe me, in math "greater"' is symbolized as ">". Nothing more need be said. I can, given some leeway, easily mathema...

I'm employing the standard definitions as they appear in the relevqnt wikipedia pages ( :sweat: ).

Physicalism is literally hogging all the space - leaving no room for nonphysicalism. The instant a thing is perceived, it's automatically physical. Yo...

That's one of the vexing problems in ontology. There's no difference at all between perceivable (sensorily and/or instrumentally) and physical.

I skimmed through your post. Sorry, I was in a hurry and what caught my eye was the word "metaphysics" and suddenly a light bulb goes off in my head -...

In both cases, physical work is done. You can't do any work with thoughts, at least I haven't heard of such an event having occurred. Something smells...

Paraphrasing Dan Barker (Atheist, Musician), "if someone had proved God exists, fae should've won a Nobel Prize."

Mathematical infinity is the numerical representation of "that than which nothing greater can be conceived." What I've attempted to do is mathematize ...

Yes you're right. Mind-matter are two aspects of the universe but my concerns are specific to mind - is it physical (matter/energy) or is it nonphysic...

Suppose, I claim, God exists! Empirical verification of my claim would include sensory & instrumental data that match the claim. Yes, we look for a ma...

Look, I ain't the brightest bulb on the chandelier but I know one thing for a fact - physics is slowly metamorphosing into a full-fledged branch of ma...

I thought logical positivism was more about empirical verifiability than the hypotheses/theories themselves. The former - empirical verifiability - is...

Israeli Intelligence Failure Leads To Creation Of The Devil's Advocate

:rofl: This maybe the key to unlocking some doors to...the twilight zone! Press on, o philosopher! Lead the way!

If God is less than anything he can't be "that than which nothing greater can be conceived." Infinity is the numerical representation of that than whi...

Sorry, I find audiovisuals pack more punch than plain words on a computer screen.

:up: We could be both! Neither?! :chin: :up: The thing about science, from the little that I know of it, is that it's basically about finding the righ...

You've missed the point. I don't claim that anything is nonphysical. I'm just struck by the irony of the unequivocal fact that, if physicalism is true...

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Innatism, see Plato's Meno, just another way of saying the mind is nonphysical? Implicit, I agree, but that was prob...