That's a bunch of nonsense, as far as I'm concerned. Medieval thinking, that is. It has no ontological relevance, nor does it have any ethical relevan...
What can I say? I read Chapter 25 literally. I'll quote the relevant part, once more: I'll translate it to Propositional Logic first: 1) If p, the q. ...
Yeah but it's like, I hate to play the role of Devil's Advocate here, but Plato's theory of the mind (i.e., pistis, dianoia, episteme) is outdated. Wa...
I didn't even know that Australian Paraguayans even existed before I joined this Forum a few days ago. Why not? Why didn't I know that? Well, the Peir...
So does the act of thinking, being aware, and being conscious of something. All of them require a living organism. Intentional consciousness as Husser...
So? Bunge's point (and Searle's point, perhaps) is that you won't find "hungry" by dissecting a stomach either. It's no big deal. The mind is a series...
@"Wayfarer" Yeah, so? What's the big deal with what Armstrong is saying there? As I read that passage, all he's saying there is that one must recogniz...
Well, I mean, not to get overtly political or anything, but he just said that Searle's and Bunge's opinion on the brain-stomach metaphor is "lumpen ma...
Yeah, I took that from Bunge, actually, and Bunge took it from Searle, surprisingly. I mean, if you read Bunge's Matter and Mind, he has some really s...
:rofl: Why are you being so mean to me when you say something like that? I'll make you a deal. I'll respond to what you said there, but you first have...
And that can be a scary thought, for some people. (Hi, by the way. Great Thread) Why would that phrase be scary? Well, think of the following hypothet...
OK. So is it like a literal "game"? Like, if Wittgenstein speaks of "Language Games", are they really games, from a scientific standpoint? Because the...
I agree. I already said in another thread, that whoever proves that the existence of the Evil Demon is modally impossible, should win the Fields Medal...
Can you summarize it, please? I did read it when you posted it, but I just don't get it. Really, I'm not trying to be disingenuous here (I've already ...
But that brings back @"Count Timothy von Icarus"'s point about the debate between Rorty and Eco. Things cannot be pragmatism and convention all the wa...
Right, but that's what I'm saying. Explain this phrase to me: "remanens capax mutationem". Those are Heidegger's literal words, they make no sense in ...
Hi @"ToothyMaw", thanks for continuing to engage with this Thread. I think you've refuted the orca lawyer's case with what you just said there. So, ye...
Right, but here's my question, as a professional metaphysician (I think I've earned the right to call myself that, I have enough metaphysical publicat...
Yeah sorry, I genuinely don't understand that. It sounds like Heidegger and you are on to something there, but I don't know what it is. That's always ...
That, is an extremely important question, and, to the best of my knowledge, has not been solved as a genuine scientific problem. Is it one? Is it a sc...
Or just explain this part to me, @"Joshs", what does Heidegger even mean by that? I genuinely don't get it. And I studied Classical Latin at the Uni f...
Do I agree with this? I'm not so sure. Let's see what Heidegger has to say, in those passages that you quoted. Does he argue that? I'm no so sure that...
Since I'm enjoying a fine afternoon of good, old fashioned Antarctic Climate (i.e., that's how I would describe it, it's currently summer here in Arge...
But that's my point: there are aspects of the world which are not mathematizable. They're called objects, in the literal sense of the term. They are "...
For the reason that you just said: it has to do with the existence of such and such (i.e. stones, tables, trees, dogs, people, computers, the Internet...
Folks are talking about an 8th continent now, which they are calling "Zealandia". It's almost entirely submerged. Their main country is New Zealand. S...
Right, but this is the part where the "orca lawyer" steps in and says: "But mate, orcas kill for sport sometimes, they get a kick out of it, they thin...
Well I mean, if you want to get technical about it, it has a lot of math to it, but it's ultimately within the domain of what physicists study. To the...
Much has been written on the topic of precisive abstraction. And I am not an expert on that part of the literature as far as the work of Peirce goes. ...
Hi, I'm joining this Thread because I want to know the same thing that J's asking. My knowledge of Aristotle's philosophy isn't proficient enough to a...
Right, but forget about the chickens for a moment. My heart goes to them and all that, but let's discuss something else that you just said there. Beca...
My response to the Platonist there is that numbers, logical and scientific principles, and so forth, have the same ontology: they are all just concept...
Then let me just quote the Tao Te Ching: The lesson here, in my opinion (the most important one) is that the Tao itself is not the Ultimate, be-all, e...
If by "coincidence" you mean something like an atheist version of occasionalism, then I would say no. It's not a co-incidence, as if two "things" were...
I can craft a new argument in support of it, like so: 5) If science can be compared to phenomenology but not to astrology in some sense, then there is...
I believe in both. I don't know if I'd call it "pure", in any sense of the term. Just intuition. What is your reason for calling it "pure"? Are you so...
@"Wayfarer" Happy New Year. You seem like a lovely soul. Let me ask you an honest question. Does phenomenology have a blind spot? Here is what I would...
Mate, I say this with no ill intent: it genuinely doesn't make sense (to my mind) for you worry so much about etiquette, to the point of saying "no of...
Don't forget that the Tao follows something else: it follows what is natural. It follows "the way that things are": Don't follow the Tao. Follow what ...
Existence, in my philosophy, is what has a spatiotemporal location. It has nothing to do with the concept of "being made of material stuff". To be mat...
It's a tough notion to articulate coherently, I acknowledge that. So, sadly, no, I can't say how. I lack the knowledge. The latter. I prefer the one t...
I'm going to say something extremely controversial about that, which I don't expect you (or anyone else) to endorse, or to even agree with me in what ...
Hi. Let me contribute something, in that regard. To me what that means (and I might have a different interpretation than @"Tom Storm" on that point) i...
He's wrong about that, in my humble opinion, Banno. He's right when he says that most materialists are like that, but not all of us (materialists, tha...
Exactly, that's what I'm saying. Maybe I didn't argue well for it, but what you just said there was my intent: how do you actually turn a predicate (i...
This is the part (one of many) that I don't understand. That just makes no sense to me. How can you "turn a predicate into a relation"? A predicate, i...
Same. It's unfortunate. Anecdote: I'm thinking about learning Mandarin, but I don't know if I should. They're as difficult as Mandarin, I would say. N...
Real objects withdraw for OOO, but sensual objects don't. Sensual objects, unlike real objects, have direct access to each other. ... and with that, I...
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