Metaphysician Undercover

Partners in crime (...like Putin and Trump) often become enemies when the chips are down.

Consider Putin's involvement in America's 2016 election, and maybe you'd understand this attitude. Whether or not the actions, which are a manifestati...

To speak is to act. And, in many cases the crime is in the intent behind the words. Whether or not the words have causal efficacy is irrelevant. That'...

Or, is it that we think we can alter our perspective on life, when we really cannot. In that case, the difference might be that we're the only animals...

How about this idea? We construct a big kite and fly it high above the earth's atmosphere to collect energy from the solar wind, just like Ben Frankli...

Metaphysics provides us with an approach to the unknown. It is essential to the growth and evolution of knowledge, and is therefore indispensable to p...

Acceleration in general, is not well understood. If an object is at rest, and later it is in motion, then there must be a time when acceleration is in...

In mysticism, the principle is that every object must be recreated at each moment of passing time. This is the moment of the present. The principles e...

But space and time are conceptual. They are concepts created to help us understand the appearance of objects. We really have no thorough understanding...

Yes, I agree with this. The important thing to understand is that there is a "becoming" which contains both being and not being. The reality of becomi...

This depends on how one understands "the object". From the perspective of what I've been arguing, objects are a creation of the sensing system. You ca...

Sorry for the delay. But your post does deserve a reply. The issue here is in what you call "cognitive power". I think that the power to create, i.e. ...

It's simply a matter of bad axioms, useful but not truthful. If you judge good by usefulness, you'll say the axioms are good. If you judge good by tru...

Who said the relation must be "legal or binding"? Most relations are not, especially personal relations. By using these terms, you are trying to make ...

This is where we disagree. I think that memory requires effort, this effort is called memorizing. Memorizing consists of repetition within the conscio...

What do you mean? I have music in my mind almost all the time. And, I find it fascinating how I can have a song going on in my mind, while I am thinki...

Obviously, advertising qualifies as a pre-existing relation, so that the exchange cannot be called an impersonal exchange. The type of relation which ...

I think that's actually very common. We have to work hard to ensure that a memory doesn't change. This requires constant effort. It takes effort to me...

Capitalism does not succeed in creating impersonal markets, The personal relations are just disguised, so as not to appear as part of the actual marke...

I believe modern day capitalism is derived from the practise of mass production. It came upon us hand in hand with the industrial revolution. Huge fac...

Oh sorry Mww, I got mixed up between your two posts. Here's some more points Making something from spare parts is still manufacturing. But then you st...

I think the issue here is not what "mind" means, but what it means to be in memory. We tend to believe that the mind takes an object, an idea, sense i...

"Inductive reasoning" produces general principles. It is not defined as "expectation based on prior experience", whatever that means. When I awake in ...

You don't seem to understand what inductive reasoning is. Your example of the sniffing dog is not an example of a dog deriving a general principle fro...

The point though is that to be in the memory is not the same as to be in the mind (the reasoning process), because things which are being thought abou...

Again, you demonstrate the same problem I already pointed out. You obviously didn't get what I meant. The rabbit didn't necessarily go down a path, lo...

I did reply to this post, the first time you posted it. I really don't think that we can truthfully say that an individual (dog or whatever animal) us...

I'll state very clearly and concisely the reason why I believe there must be two types of intuition for the two types of objects whose impressions are...

Again, this is one of those definitional things. It all depends on how you understand "logic". If we have loose definitions, then all sorts of things ...

[ You said: "But if it is the case we don’t function at all, in any way, shape or form, when we dismiss the basic principles of logic, then it is reas...

I'd say "to intuit" is not well defined, and people use "intuition" in various different ways which are pretty much all quite vague. Intuition may ref...

Maybe, the red pill and the blue pill actually consist of the very same thing? Actually though, I think there is a very real difference, which involve...

This is why Banno characterizes (defines) "reason" as "a group enterprise", rather than as the activity of an individual mind. Instead of describing r...

Take the following passage and replace "intersubjective" with "collective intentionality", and tell me how is "collective intentionality" supposed to ...

Well, I'll qualify my statement then. Instead of saying that there is no such thing as pure a priori, I'll say that if we seek such, we find a big div...

I believe there is no such thing as "pure" a priori. The a priori is always conditioned by the basic intuitions, space and time, which are inherently ...

I think the US surely could have prevented the invasion, by submitting to Russia's demands, and pressuring Ukraine, and all NATO countries to submit t...

Notice that these synthetical a priori principles are called "judgements". This is why skepticism as an approach to fundamental principles is very imp...

Why do they position the "bubbles" after the bust, instead of putting them in the proper place, before the bust? I wouldn't call that truthful.

I think he's actually quite wrong, having a number of things backward. He's too enveloped by the idealist tradition. These things are not created by l...

Then for what reason do you call it a second universe. If it's just a part of the real universe, without anything separating it from the real universe...

And after a while you start to ignore the bullshit and just do the job.

Rhyming is an ancient memory aid. It's still very useful for rock and rollers who use a lot of drugs and need to remember the lyrics of the the songs ...

The western tradition is the four line quatrain. It's more conducive to rhyming.

I find the very opposite. My dealings with other people cause me a lot of stress, and keep me awake at night. Then I need to deal with myself, so I pi...

The artwork signifies the relationship between the mechanistic state and the living human beings who have created the machine. The state is a machine ...

I actually heard that one from a banjo player. But he said it slightly different, something like without bending the rim. I always figured it was impl...

I find philosophy has been very useful toward getting a good night's sleep.

What would happen to a nuclear missile that got shot down?

OK Ken, I take that as a challenge. How would we decide the truth of this, by our capacity to effect change in the real universe? I would say that the...