I don't think philosophers who try to reverse engineer the natural order of knowing end up being coherent. Yes, I realize that. A power is an easy exa...
Right, and that's why I said it is subtle. I don't think anyone on the forum has grasped the point Kit Fine is making in that thread, largely because ...
I am explaining why I disagree with Mill. I don't know how closely you follow him. The challenge of how to understand the existence of physical object...
Also, I have always thought this would be an interesting study in itself. What does it mean for a philosopher to redefine a commonly used term? For in...
I see it in the way you see Kant, albeit much more subtle and less pronounced: The non-sequitur is that, just because we know objects through sensatio...
I think Mill's whole construal of "possibilities of sensation" is a non-starter: This is subtly off. A substance is not a possibility of sensation. Th...
Emphasis, "almost." What we really need are automatic lid-droppers. We have automatic flushers, sinks, towel dispensers, and hand dryers, so I think t...
@"Wayfarer", I think you would enjoy section 1.4 of Joseph Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity, entitled, "The boundary of the modern understandi...
It sounds like you want to call good acts moral and bad acts amoral, such that immoral acts do not exist. You've defined immoral acts out of existence...
True. I suppose lid protocol largely depends on one's holiness quotient. I mean, I know I am holy. I'm not sure about you. I sure don't buy that (prof...
- :up: Aquinas has a quote that goes something like this, "Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through ...
- My response still holds good: In this thread when we have been speaking about "mind-independent objects," 'mind' is taken to refer to the human mind...
What does it mean to glory in arguments that can "only be made from the sidelines"? Isn't that the objection? The problem? You've swallowed the critiq...
Hindus have been known to smear cow dung on the walls and floors of their houses, and this supposedly has health benefits (among other things). Maybe ...
I think it could make a difference. We distinguish combatants from civilians, but then there are murky areas such as civilians who are proximate to th...
Banno, allow me to ask a question out of curiosity. In Anscombe's early work, such as "Modern Moral Philosophy," she more or less claimed that absolut...
A related question with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict is whether it is illicit to indirectly kill those whom the enemy has taken hostage as...
- Oh, that's not a problem. It was just the link that distracted me! I will try to get a response in at some point, but, prima facie, it does remind m...
Given that this thread is filled with your claims about Aquinas and your criticisms of Aquinas, one would expect to find that you have quoted or cited...
@"plaque flag", I was reading your thread, "Rationalism's Flat Ontology," and so far I'm on the third sentence. :smile: It looks like an interesting b...
Yes, there are many different schools of Thomism. My teachers tended to be in the Laval/River Forest school, or else the analytic Thomism school. Tran...
- Okay, this seems to me like a good place to leave our discussion, which I think has been productive. --- - I think we disagree on what anti-Scientis...
Yes, quite right. :up: And that it occurs is known most surely—more surely than any epistemological theory that might undercut it (hence my post <on t...
- Thank you for that. I agree very much, and it is nice to find common ground. But I won't elaborate so as to avoid raining on Wayfarer's parade. :hal...
This is the quote I can't agree with: --- Right. Exactly! And thus if indirect realism's critique of direct realism is thoroughgoing (as Kant's tends ...
The microcosm here is the idea that boulders possess a mind-independent quality of shape (link), and you specifically called this an "empirical matter...
Your first paragraph contradicts your second, and this is what I anticipated when I said, "They may be irreconcilable." You say that you are not quest...
Yes, good point. I agree. , - Interesting, thank you. Right. - Good quotes. I wish you had given the sources. - This is what I don't really agree with...
(an older post, from page 16) True, I agree with that. Okay, thanks. 'Wish I had more time at the moment. :blush: Yes, right. It seems that you have a...
"Soul-as-substantial-form is the same as ego-connected-to-body-via-pineal gland. It's just a difference of words." That's absurd. What are you talking...
Ha! Well I think you also managed to keep it accessible and interesting. Oh, I agree with that. I don't think it is local to our era, or new to us. I ...
, thanks for the interesting and ambitious thread. I think we would want to gain precision regarding this sort of claim. For example, presumably the c...
You would have to convince me that you have ever read Aquinas. You are drawing conclusions based on your understanding of the Thomistic approach to th...
Sure, that’s fair. For my purposes in this thread, when I speak about being “ordered to truth” I am thinking, first, that the human being is not indif...
This does not follow, and I do not deny that an argument can fall on deaf ears. We should still be transparent in argument, even though arguments can ...
So when you said, "it's just that an argument is a prerequisite to transparency," what you meant was apparently either, "it's just that an argument is...
This is all true... but in my opinion it's an undue mixing of theology with philosophy. It's also tricky because not all modern philosophers reject di...
I actually think your view is bread-and-butter nominalism. From the paper I cited earlier (): (Pinter seems to be a nominalist; he seems to be followi...
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