Arcane Sandwich

I believe you. Can you please explain that to me? Please be charitable to my intellect, I'm not very smart.

But, you see, this is my argument. Ordinary people philosophize from time to time. How could they not? Everyone does. But we, as philosophers, have a ...

I read it in Spanish first, then years later in English. It's a trip. Could be. I mean it as mutualism in the ecological, biological sense of the term...

I agree with this. It makes philosophical sense. It makes ethical sense. And it makes moral sense. I sincerely, honestly, do not think so. That exampl...

I was apologizing in general. My apology was, first and foremost, to you as an Administrator. Secondly, it was for @"T Clark" for being uncivil toward...

My apologies, then.

But then why do I have to put up with backseat moderation, if that's against the site's rules? Pick a verse from the Tao Te Ching, and let us proceed....

Oh man, you're killing me. I'm an Aristotelian, through and through, and I've been meaning to talk to you, but it's just too much to take in at the mo...

I second that motion. Pick a verse from the Tao Te Ching that you'd like to discuss, and let us proceed.

Legalism. That's what I'm hopping to add to this specific conversation, about Taoist thought. Will you allow me that, yes or no?

But it's like, I already told Mapping the Medium what I think about that. It's not that I don't believe in hypostatic abstraction, I just don't unders...

Exactly, that's what I'm saying. Peirce is the North American equivalent to Hegel in that sense. Both of them "just liked" the number 3, for Aesthetic...

It's because we don't speak the language in which the book in question was written. Wittgenstein 101, basically. I don't think anyone has knowledge on...

It is, I agree. I do, yes. Then explain it to me. It isn't. I'm glad that we agree for the most part, @"T Clark".

I disagree with that, for mereological reasons as well as metaphysical reasons. I am not a "part", in the mereological and metaphysical sense of the t...

But, my perhaps ignorant question would be, why would you do that? The concept of existence should be retired from the field of mathematics and logic,...

These are very difficult questions that you're asking, and I don't have an opinion on such matters at the moment. I am, however, actively working on t...

Then you run into the paradox of the Ship of Theseus, is what I would say. Which is a problem of indeterminate identity.

Fair enough, I take that back then (can I?). I'll just call you "Mapping the Medium" from now on. Does that sound fair? I don't think that those are t...

You didn't explain it poorly, and we're not just skimming. We're just asking for more evidence, arguments, or both, from you part. Let me phrase it li...

Which is why, if someone were to prove that the evil demon argument leads to a contradiction, then such a person would have also demonstrated that it ...

I disagree with this, honestly. I think that there are things that are not possible even at the level of theory. I'm a realist about modality: some th...

Sure, and it's a great observation. I agree with you. But allow me to make a methodological claim, to see if you agree or not. Think of opaqueness or ...

If someone were to craft such an argument, that person should be regarded as being very intelligent, and noble. That person should be awarded the logi...

No, numbers do not have causal efficacy. They are not efficient causes, in any sense of the term.

Here's the problem with Peirce's philosophical semiotics: The terms "Firstness", "Secondness", and "Thirdness" allow one to say that there is also "Fo...

1) There is no ontological difference between political geography and political ontology. 2) If so, then: if political geography is respectable, then ...

Exactly. In technical terms, I'm asking what is the relation of metaphysical grounding, here. What grounds the facts about, or of, my existence? For e...

Then the answer to your question, as to why I would need to conquer that doubt (to wit, that I might have been tricked by a demon), all I can say is t...

No, I would say that you have argued well for the existence of natural numbers, like 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. But then we need to talk about fractions, and th...

Do you want the honest answer, or some bullshit?

Ok, so can I ask a political question? Don't respond it if you don't want to. What do you folks think of Australian Realism? It sounds like a respecta...

See, this is what I'm saying. We need the modal equivalent to Moore's hand argument in order to refute claims like that. "Maybe such and such ..." Wel...

Exactly, which is why I think the original question of the OP has been successfully answered, and if someone wishes to make a case for some particular...

Where are you from? Or, what is your Native Language? I speak Spanish and English. I do not speak "Machine", as in, I cannot "talk" to you with Zeros ...

But like, mate, you know what we're arguing right now? As in, right now at page 'effin 12 of this thing? Here's how I would describe it: we are debati...

What? Let's formalize the argument a bit: First Premise: Numbers exist. Second Premise: 2 is a number. Conclusion: Therefore, there are numbers. What?...

Oh man, this one is brutal for me. I get so worked up over this. Sometimes I hate being a philosopher. That's an odd thing to say. Hmmm...

Then what are we even arguing about? I mean, let's keep this on track, we're talking about quantities and numbers. Do they exist? As in, did you learn...

And he succeeded, in my honest opinion. Like, what more do you want? Good common sense is suddenly not a respectable epistemic framework? Well I mean ...

Yes, that is indeed the case. And I will say something even more extreme: there is no other existence than spatiotemporal existence. To exist is to ex...

Hi @"ToothyMaw", thanks for your contribution to this Thread. On Straight Edge: I think more of it more as a goal. Straight Edge can be your objective...

I did not. Fascinating stuff. I just learned that Australian Paraguayans exist. See? To me this is metaphysics. This proves that realism is true, and ...

Hi @"Bob Ross", thanks for joining the Thread that I started. Forgive me if I answer point-for-point, or tit-for-tat, in what follows. Try to read it ...

Well, it's political geography, to phrase it more technically. I don't think that Australia should take back New Guinea, nor do I think that it should...

Indeed you have. I had been harboring suspicions about that part of Bunge's work myself (and about other parts of his work, but those are beside the p...

@"Banno" Indeed, you have a solid argument on your hands. So what were we discussing in relation to that point? Why Bunge instead of Kripke on that sp...

Perhaps. I'm sure it has. But it doesn't "seep through" your words, currently. It's as if you've already figured out something that requires no furthe...

You seem very... "extreme", in some sense of the word. You speak with absolute confidence, is what I'm saying. Is it because you put no stock in the c...

But then you reach a problem, mate. You can't deduce ¬Ga from ?x¬((Gx?Ax)?(Ax?Gx)). Here's your argument: First premise: Gp Second premise: ?x¬((Gx?Ax...