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I still don't understand. Science is dependent on tools, so therefore what?

So you changed P to Balls that are moving go through windows. That's not true in all possible worlds.

What??

Because we can imagine the universe with different laws. Logical possibility is about what we can imagine.

Absolutely not. The universe could have been different.

We can usually imagine multiple explanations for the same event. Look at this statement, P: "The ball went through the window because Terry threw it."...

I don't understand. Why does science need something else to prove?

This thread is plagued by a misunderstanding of necessity.

I'm familiar. Thanks.

Logical possibility is just testing for contradiction. We analyze an ideal cube to determine the possibilities associated with tossing dice. That's al...

Yep. A neuroscientist starts with a methodological confidence that we can come to understand consciousness. There's a nervous system. It has an enviro...

What do you mean?

:lol:

I don't think that's true.

Kant wanders off into inexplicability.

I knew somebody was splitting.

Ok. So the mind is phenomenal. It's a product of itself. Why not?

Understanding your question is tricky. Causation is explanation. It's the answer to "why?" Necessity is modality. It's the answer to "could it have be...

Apparently. :grin:

Wouldn't he say it's wrong to think in terms of a noumenal world? Since a world is a construction of the mind? But if so, where is the mind? Within it...

Or maybe just bind the splitting GOP against encroaching Marxism.

"In Europe, “the narrative is becoming: This is what you get if you deal nicely with authoritarian regimes,” said Ivana Karásková, a researcher on Chi...

The sensory homunculus: https://78.media.tumblr.com/a3f33510b93d7412cad742814d8fcf10/tumblr_p5c0nmj2zu1qecmq4o1_400.gif

How is Kant not doing the thing he says can't be done? He's saying there is no mind independent world. There can't be because worlds are always constr...

Causation is basically explanation, so in drawing a distinction between "physical" and "logical" causes, are you asking if we're bound to rely on logi...

Absolutely.

That makes sense. So a world is always a construction.

It wasn't going to stay that way, though.

But Relativity emerged from thought experiments, so it indicates that the world does conform to the way we're bound to think.

Quantum mechanics or relativity?

The idea of law is also built into perception, right?

I think you did understand me even though I did t say it very well. So we end up with two meanings for "world". There's the world we know, which is th...

And that's one way to reunite the boundaries of thought to the boundaries of possibility as long as we recalibrate "reality" to the world as we know i...

Although it's dubious to say we observed something that's impossible. We'll tend to continue trying to make observations fit with logic somehow even i...

So you're drawing a line between the way we think and the way the world is. Once you've done that, there's the problem of how to put them back togethe...

Christ as the Nous. https://youtu.be/nA5_VgJAceU

The trinity is Neoplatonism.

That would be nice, but I don't think it works that way.

There's a path from here directly to global nuclear war. Can't say that every day.

Keep up the good work. :up:

So an embargo would likely lead to the use of strategic missiles.

All true. :grin:

China's finally got it.

That makes a lot of sense. It looks like Zelensky also doesn't want it to escalate. Thanks again.

So why does the head of the CIA publicly float the idea that Putin might use tactical nukes? Is he just spouting off? Or is he trying to accomplish so...

What are their alternatives?

I was surprised to find out this isn't true. Here's an article about it. You need to have access to jstor.

What do you think the US will do if Putin uses nukes?

Is it possible that people act in the world without any concepts, but when they analyze their experiences, concepts enter as gears in the machinery of...

This makes me wonder how things will be affected as the US becomes a more Latino nation. A lot of Latinos are very conservative and condemn illegal im...