https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-are-philosophers-too/ This follows from the trend of mathematicians who employ platonic realism ...
I find 3.14 is sufficient for my practical purposes. I suppose if you're a cosmologist, or someone who is multiplying pi by a googolplex or something ...
The real problem is that the person can choose not to play that game. And that is why the whole game analogy, and the described "hinge propositions", ...
I've never been able to understand the basis of this claim that abstractions do not have any effect in the world. All a person has to do is open one's...
You claim to have a scientific perspective, but I think the trend by modern scientists, especially physicists, is toward idealism. What's commonly acc...
I'm waiting for you to address the issues I raised. Show me where I might find one of these laws of reality that you insist I must obey. Where is the ...
You've lost track of the premise. There is a succession of universes, one every moment, stacked like pancakes. The "order" is the relation between the...
If you do not understand that "occupy space", and "possess mass" are both conceptual, then please read some philosophy before posting on a philosophy ...
Let me state the problem using other words then. If you proceed in this direction, you have no "truth" as correspondence, because you've denied that t...
Anything defined with "in general" is conceptual, so "physical substance in general" is purely conceptual. And so is "occupies space", as well as "res...
Matter is just a concept. Unless you can clearly define your concept of "matter" you might just as well be saying that the brain is made of pixie dust...
That's the way I find reality, complicated. If you think my description of reality is needlessly complicated then you probably do not share my opinion...
I think that action is generally based in probability rather than in truth. We usually act when we believe that there is a probability for success, no...
OK, I'll go with that description. The first thing to come to grips with, is that there is no such thing as "the universe", "our universe", or "my uni...
Yes, I see your point, but facts are not propositions, and this is what gives so many people the problem in understanding what supports the hinge prop...
Wittgenstein's notion of "hinge proposition" is really useless. All propositions are "hinges"; "hinge" describes the use of a proposition. Some propos...
Yes, in the paper you referred, the author argues, as I do, that there is no reality to "hinge propositions" as described by Wittgenstein. A real "hin...
We cannot deny these things, which were in the past but no longer are now, and which might be, in the future, from reality. Clearly they are in some s...
I was going on Real Gone's interpretation of what you said, that God is outside the universe. Under that proposal there is no question as to whether G...
I don't see the basis for your claim. If God is the creator, then God had real existence, prior to your existence, just like your grandmother had real...
The problem with expressing the picture in the propositional form, is the gap between the particular and the universal. A picture is always a particul...
How can you have a relationship with your dead grandmother? The fact that the named entity does not presently exist in your universe does not deny you...
I'd answer both those questions with no. And I agree with your relating Kuhn to Wittgenstein, I think Kuhn most likely built on Wittgenstein's idea. A...
Why do you dismiss the idea of God having been "designed"? If we do not dismiss this idea, then we are confronted with the possibility of an infinite ...
We actually agree on something here Luke. But how we both interpret this is bound to differ. I see what you describe here as clear evidence that there...
Being confined to an artificial structure in an extremely hostile outside environment is definitely not my idea of utopia. Many of the political issue...
That's the problem, the axis itself (the proposed hinge proposition) is not fixed, so it revolves around something else, another "hinge", and so on. I...
I think what Wittgenstein demonstrates, is that the idea of hinge propositions is fundamentally mistaken. Hinge propositions are simply something we w...
I think that the other planets are known to be fundamentally uninhabitable, any colonization would be within an artificial structure, just like the sp...
Why not? Hasn't the International Space Station already turned into a sort of melting pot, with people of all different nationalities going there? Wik...
I really can't see the distinction you are trying to make here. What would it mean to obey a rule without following it? Notice "follow" implies a temp...
Yes, that is the problem, isn't it? What are you going to believe, your own experience of thinking, acting, and living, which demonstrates the reality...
Consider the possibility of "time zero". This would mean that there is a future without any past. Why would there suddenly be a past? "Time zero" itse...
I believe that we all live and act as if we have free will. So to deny free will is a self-deceptive attempt at hypocrisy, to force oneself to belief ...
Now you seem to be catching on. Each depends on the other, so we cannot say that one controls the other. If the brain existed first, and created the h...
Self-perpetuating is to continue in existence indefinitely. If it dies it is not self-perpetuating. Obviously it's not a closed system. The brain is n...
Garrett, my brain is not your brain. And both of our brains have come into existence and will pass out of existence. "The brain" is not self-perpetuat...
Since you obviously think that this paragraph supports your claim that the brain is "self-perpetuating without fail", I see no point in discussing thi...
This is the same distinction Aristotle makes then. What one sees as good for oneself is called the apparent good. The common good, or good from the pe...
I'm sorry if this disappoints you, but I find your conception of "will" to be completely incoherent. Premises which are essential for your conclusion,...
It easy to say "the will is itself", but unless we can demonstrate that there is actually something real which is being referred to as "the will", suc...
I don't know if the notions of will and freedom here are outdated, I'd say they're just heavily influenced by determinism. The best a determinist can ...
This is a good indication as to why Arendt is dealing with a faulty description of "will". It leads to contradiction in the description of the self-sa...
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