So love is something in experience? and we as experiencers may project it (psychologically) onto the world, imagining it as something, on occasion, ex...
From what I've said you cannot discern this, perhaps you confuse my personal stance on this with my addressing what I think we can say philosophically...
Yes one can always claim that the difference is worldly because that's how it presents before us and logically. For example, it is the same brain cell...
I am not an apophatic philosopher, so can only reply in the way it makes sense to me. Also I presume you are asking for a logical proof. Well logicall...
For logical conceptual frameworks, arriving at a logically precise statement of the status of said substance is appropriate and enables one to build a...
Oh, so by nowhere, you are actually saying it's everywhere? We can't make this distinction either, it might be useful for a logical conceptual framewo...
Godzilla is code for Tsunami, which is code for seismic activity. It looks as though Godzilla has been woken up. Thinking about it Trump looks uncanni...
If it is a necessary being and is somewhere, then it can't be denied. You are denying it by stating that it is nowhere. No I don't, I am only saying w...
Agreed, but you are using "infinite" instead of transcendent and saying the same thing under another guise. When I use "transcendent", I am referring ...
I suspect that Willow is substituting the word "infinite" for "transcendent" and claiming a deeper understanding. An understanding which is already pr...
I agree with everything you have said over the last few pages, but my agreement is not evident because I am not writing it and posting it. These board...
Provided it is accepted that there may be a substance out there, a necessary being, which is not necessarily being addressed, then yes it can be discu...
Ok, I agree (for the sake of argument) that there is an uncaused cause, or prime mover and that this is the substance we are considering, fine. This i...
Its quite simple, given Spinoza's definition not only can we not conclude that there is only one substance. I don't see how we have any knowledge of a...
I understood that you said there can only be one substance and that God must be that substance. This is all I have commented on, it's not difficult to...
I suggest you look at what I said again, I said,"one of which is in our case the same substance as that of which the world and or our being is constit...
This notion that there can only be one substance is an unfounded assumption. God may be constituted of a multitude of substances, one of which is in o...
Actually its more about a realisation of our limitations, if it is then found that knowing nothing is the consequence, this is a side issue, to be con...
Yes I realise that and value the philosophies you propose here. However I return to my original observation, that there doesn't appear to be much meta...
Quite I'm critical of scientism and pseudo philosophies along the same lines. Science does include the philosophy of science, which may on occasion re...
But I have not done that. What I have done is delineated nature into two areas. The area within the purview of people "y" and the area not within the ...
Are "natural principles" all there is? What about the natural principles which fall into category x? (To recap, I have categorised what we are present...
Well, I don't have much use for faith, it is a rational inquiry. Also the method can be explained, but cannot be demonstrated as of any use, other, pe...
Yes, I've no issue with pragmatism, but metaphysics presumably is looking to what we can say about existence. In which case there is no workability, b...
Noble that effort may be, it is more intellectualisation and as I claim, is subject (susceptible) to solipsism, regression and intellectual dogma. How...
Elementary Mr Bond. It's not difficult, solipsim, regressions, the necessity of relations(indeed all the artefacts of thought) are products of intelle...
A modest metaphysics would have in mind the limitations of thought and logic. That they are both merely a product of an intellect, a computation of co...
Yes, I was finding it depressing too, I suppose I feel solace in the idea that we are, on the whole, accepting that there is a problem and starting to...
The variation in the water cycle is well known, it's covered by the science of meteorology. The role played by both water and CO2 in historical climat...
H2O precipitates out easily, the atmosphere can only hold so much under usual conditions. CO2 doesn't precipitate, it accumulates and is slow to becom...
But your economic imperative is blind to other considerations. I accept that we can't stop serious climate change in time(before some runaway conseque...
Yes there probably is increased growth in plants, but that's simply an effect of increased CO2 levels. They're still unproductive deserts and deserts ...
Desertification will outstrip any greening. Any rocking of the ecological boat during the degree of species collapse which is already happening will j...
Bitter Crank has beaten me to it by pointing out the main drivers of our predicament. But has not touched on the consequences, or the inability of hum...
Because we are living minds, as beings. Appreciation of art, like that of reason and of service, even humour, is the daily bread of such beings and is...
Yes, you never know, I was only at Crosby beach though. I like the work of Blake and have used the expression on the face of the ass in that print in ...
I spent three hours with an art installation called Another Place, by Anthony Gormley, in Liverpool yesterday afternoon. It was one of the most exhila...
The Bower bird and the bird of paradise are both good artists and have a highly developed artistic appreciation. However they have no idea what art is...
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