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Sorry, did not understand that. Why does metaphysics have to be about science?

What articles or books in metaphysics are you referring to?

That is just not true.

Yes. They presume a definition of subjectivity as if it is self evident. Is a subject merely a biological entity?

My interest is Leibniz's concept of possible worlds. Now, at 'time' (event) of the Big Bang, life on planet earth was possible even though there was n...

Right, I am saying that is an indeterminate reference.

I don't agree. But I am not an expert on physics and cannot cite current research. That said, a parallel universe is not part of multiverse theory. I ...

A possible world is a logical structure, so a multiverse would qualify.

Can you give an example? I mean, lots of philosophers publish papers on metaphysics and criticize each other.

Any statement about how the world is, is metaphysics. Say, here are the limits of knowledge, is metaphysics.

And that is doing metaphysics.

I do not think that is true.

The idea of the multiverse is what I think possible worlds refers to. There is no universe, just multiple universes.

What was Kant's experience? Walked to university same path every day and died. That guy is going to tell me what experience is?!

Kant was just a platonist, establishing absolute fiats as if no other way of thinking about the world was possible.

Exactly. Like jumping over your own shadow.

Kantians think everything is about science. It is not.

Ad hominem attack. If you want to discuss philosophy, I will. If you cannot refrain from ad hominem attacks then I will not respond.

A shame you need to make a personal attack. We're done.

And I don't accept Kant's concept of space and time. So, his conditions of experience are contrary to science.

Kant was a Newtonian. He thought there was absolute time and space.

What is time? Sequence? We can't understand the world without framing it by sequences? Even Leibniz knew time was relative, before Einstein showed it ...

I can explain my objection. But, basically, experience is an event. We cannot determine all possible experiences.

No such thing as the condition for any possible experience.

David Lewis: "I believe, and so do you, that things could have been different in countless ways. Ordinary language permits the paraphrase: there are m...

"Metaphysicians want to know what the world is like, and tend to ask questions about what sorts of things exist (e.g. are there numbers?), as well as ...

That's okay. Read the thread and you will see it stated explicitly.

I wrote Aristotle's definition. Even the SEP entry on metaphysics starts with Aristotle.

Stated it several times.

Part of course work for my graduate degree.

One definition, yes.

Aristotle defined metaphysics as "first philosophy." Where a philosopher discusses his basic principles of philosophy.

I like to be informed about my judgments.

What counts as a correct answer to ontological questions?

Yes. The "Real" is abstract and is itself hard to define. Is it merely that which is not False? That is more epistemology.

Metaphysics is just what you think the basic principles of your philosophy are. Physicalists refuse to admit they are doing metaphysics. As Wittgenste...

I don't define metaphysics as the science of the real. It is just a topic in philosophy about what we think the totality of the world is. And Kant is ...

Metaphysics is no more the definitive answer to absolute reality than epistemology is the definitive answer to absolute truth and knowledge. And Kant ...

Good explanation. Thanks.

I may have missed your point. Are you saying we cannot be angry without using words to say we are angry?

Then what do you mean by experience?

what is a direct unspoken experience?

I am not a doctor.

I don't reject physicalism because of the spiritual--I have no idea what spiritual means. I reject physicalism because it is incoherent. If we say eve...

My motto is, "No one ever accomplished anything by doing nothing."

I think Hume's argument is more like UFO sightings. It is more probable that it is something that the viewer cannot identify than a spaceship from som...

I am not a doctor. Don't have any knowledge of the neurology of dementia.

Depends on how you define religion.

I subscribe to panpsychism. The one difference is I would substitute "intelligence" for "consciousness." That is, intelligent systems do not have to h...

How do you measure deep?