you’re an essentialist wrt to fundamental particles. And if you believe that on the basia of standard model you also have to accept there are multipar...
ah so you are an essentialist, if humans aren’t reducible to co figuration of matter it doesn’t follow that there’s no identity criterion for humans a...
In your view matter has identity? Like electrons have dispositions proper to them by which we can recognize they are electrons? Under variabilism how ...
Why would it affect reasoning? Of course causal reasoning has uncheckable assumptions like no outside cause intervenes, the system will evolve such an...
The problem is the popular philosophers did something new and for this reason alone they can be deemed somewhat interesting. For me Heidegger is absol...
wow I didn't know this guy will certainly check out because arguing this point is hard (which is why I limited myself to stating what scholastics thou...
This is certainly relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_undefinability_theorem In scholastic metaphysics truth is convertible with being. ...
3 because monotheism appears wherever humans begin to seriously write what they're thinking. The most respectable philosophical schools are monotheist...
It is not safe since it causes you to arbitrarily reject psychology (because it doesn't even claim not to be reducible to physics, it leaves the issue...
Where did I say that the mind is a result of physical objects interacting? I said it has parts, modules with different functions. Not all reduction to...
Why not? And why does it matter to the discussion about the criterion of demarcation between why and how? There is a point in case it is a complex phe...
Of course physics isn't concerned with explaining abstract reasoning. Complex phenomena are by definition a result of simpler things combining. I didn...
Well there was a guy called Comte and he camed up with this idea. That sciences deal with how and philosophy deals with why. Then Russell and a bunch ...
Per se causes bring out the effect through themselves. Per accidens causes are merely conjoined with the per se cause. So the the wisdom of Aristotle ...
Are you guys arguing whether there is something like simultaneous causation in Aristotle? Of course there is. Substantial form actualizes its prime ma...
First of all you guys speak as if God was changing His mind in the result of prayer. Did you even study philosophy bros, every monotheist from Aristot...
The word you're looking for is a posteriori. There are things we know with certainty which are known after experiencing them, usually having an implic...
What was his "information"? If we are robots, are robots conscious according to him? Was he just a panpsychist? If he was a fictionalist, what was his...
Isn’t existential thomism a child of Gilson, only christened like that by Maritain? It’s a reading of Thomas in which existence is taken as a principl...
I made an entire argument to the effect that beliefs aren't propositions and certainly not propositions of a formal system obeying the usual laws. If ...
This kind of argument runs through the thread and, as someone pointed out, it ties into overall confusion between statements and facts. It doesn’t fol...
Bonevac provides a nice interpretation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3xQwFIUJ80 And Koons formalized it here: https://robkoons.net/the-rigorou...
I was thinking about the totalitarian model of admin arbitrage, I thought there was a somewhat democratic mechanism of government change but this woul...
Also there are trained philosophers like Tim Maudlin who say that physics is metaphysics because physical theories have ontologies. That’s the kind of...
I’m afraid it’s incurable. I’ve been writing in English for a very long time but only recently got to know I’m basically a leper. Good thing I haven’t...
You could make an argument from some basic results of model theory that mathematical formalism in most cases can`t be specific about the objects it`s ...
I gave the arguments for why I think there’s a distinction and it’s not without precedent in the litterature. There are different understandings of th...
The problem with many answers here is metaphysics ends up very inflated, encompasing physics and epistemology and not distinguishing metaphysics and o...
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