Metaphysician Undercover

I see you take the unreasonable approach 180. The rational human being says "only where there are compelling grounds am I certain". In other words, co...

What you've presented seems to support precisely what I've said. Notice, that when we are discussing the good of an act, we are discussing something a...

Mind must be taken for granted, if you're going to do any philosophy. Otherwise you incapacitate your ability to do philosophy. This is why logic must...

Notice that you say "what we do may be contrary". The point is that we are always going to do something, and we are always acting for some good. And a...

How is that possible? If you remove the anxiety from Garrett, there is nothing left.

Welcome to the club. Have you ever considered the possibility that there is no such thing as "matter"? This is where Berkeley guided us, and Berkeley ...

There is no such thing as evil. It is a fictional idea which human beings have created. God determines what is good, but human beings suggest what is ...

Plato's first step in his overall demonstration that people knowing commit evil, is Socrates' examples which refute the idea of a necessary relationsh...

But the issue is with what Socrates demonstrates about the claims that others make, in particular, claims about the relationship between virtue and kn...

Here, I haven't time to work on providing the requested support, but start with this:

Sorry Paine, I can't read the material for you.

I like to take the Socratic approach, and claim not to truly know such things. Those were my opinions, I do not profess them as knowledge. I don't kno...

I don't recall ever coming across, in Plato's writings, a place where he makes explicit claims concerning what he is teaching. But I think might refer...

Plato did not claim to teach virtue, the sophists did, and they charged a lot of money for it. Socrates argued that a person could know what is right,...

I agree, "looks" is metaphorical. The usage goes back at least as far as Plato, "the mind's eye". So I think that "to look" in this sense is to direct...

This is another issue, and it really strikes at the heart of Plato's attack on sophistry. Socrates actually demonstrates that people are knowingly evi...

I think this is a very good point, unenlightened. This looking backward in time is fundamental to observation, and the basis of the empirical sciences...

I don't think this is the case. As Plato demonstrated, through the actions of Socrates, the sophist most often truly believes oneself to be doing the ...

I think the contradictory nature of this statement is at the heart of the problem. The importance, or "un-importance" of a subject is determined relat...

The point was that we perceive it as a cliff edge, but whether the thing we perceive as a cliff edge is anything at all like what we perceive, is anot...

I agree they are equally real, but they are not the same, and are therefore "real" in completely different ways. That the noumenon is real, requires a...

It's not actually the proteins which are "informed", it is the matter, which after being informed becomes a protein, which is informed. Notice the suf...

Aristotle dispelled this idea a long time ago. When you traverse a circle, you arrive back at the same point where you started. The circle does not go...

This is the falsity which Kant taught us about. What the map maps, i.e. "the terrain", is phenomena, which is a product of sensation. Therefore the te...

I hear there's a bit of an influx of foreigners, going to fight Russia, in Ukraine. That's a different situation altogether. This statement is the wor...

"Greatest intellectual", that's a stretch. "A while now"? Like what, sixty years? That's a pretty good legacy. Imagine if he was born in Russia, criti...

What I believe is that measurement is fundamentally unlimited. This does not mean that any measuring process will go on forever, but it could in princ...

Does it make sense to say that living beings were certain before they became uncertain? Is knowledge prior to a lack of knowledge. Of course not. Ther...

I believe "infinite" was established as a fundamental principle of measurement, which would allow that anything and everything could be measured. Ther...

That's not the case with mathematics. The axioms are not produced with the intent of representing 'what is the case'. And the ones which get accepted ...

It's my opinion. There is a fundamental needlessness when mathematics employs multiple infinities. We might say that a thing could be infinite in this...

Well, space-time is curved so straight rulers ought to be a thing of the past anyway.

In politics, individuals who are movers and shakers, is a bad thing. So this needs to be discouraged. As movers and shakers, these individuals are out...

That's the problem with apokrisis' metaphysics, it gets the temporal relation of cause and effect backward. But that's just the manifestation of a dee...

In other words, the obvious is simply denied in the first place. If we dismiss what is obvious, the hard problem is no more. That's very similar to th...

It looks like the law is meant to encourage frivolous lawsuits. If you have pent up sexual misgivings, seek "injunctive relief".

I don't think you know the meaning of "doubt", Harry. It signifies an uncertain state of mind. Therefore your assertion that a person must decide to d...

Try considering "infinity" in this way Gnomon. It is a principle established for the purpose of allowing us to measure anything, or everything. There ...

I think you might be surprised at how immense the structures supported by contradiction might be. The issue being that ideology is weightless and such...

I guess that's why philosophers often say that thoughts are not part of the physical world, not matter and energy, but something else. But I wouldn't ...

I really don't see your logic Harry. Why do you think that when a person is doing anything, doubting for example, the person must be certain of what o...

Very often, the sign is in no way similar to the thing which it signifies. That's an indication of the lack of necessity between the two, such that th...

You pass your thoughts to another person by speaking them or writing them down. When they are spoken or written down they are "changed into matter".

Are you totally oblivious to the reality of reflexes? Since eyes evolved before brains, we can conclude that these eyes were not tools of the brain. S...

The research has been done, and referenced above. You are in denial of the facts, because they are incompatible with what you believe. So be it.

Sorry Travers, just like you are uninterested in the truth about the relationship between the eye and the brain, I'm not interested in the research yo...

You seem to have conveniently forgotten how to read now.

Now you're really not making sense. Are my feet a part of my brain?

It means, that there is no need for an information processing organ (brain), in order for there to be an organ which receives the information (eye). T...

Your not paying attention Garrett. The eye does not need the brain, and most likely evolved into existence prior to the brain. Therefore it does not e...