Is your argument like this? Intelligence produced luxury. Luxury produced laziness. And laziness reduced intelligence. If so, we start with the premis...
The problem obviously, is that the author of the article has not provided a cogent definition of "will". It is this faulty description of "will" which...
The article relies on a false representation of freedom to produce its conclusion. True freedom, as the possibility to do anything can only exist when...
One big problem here. The waves which are described have no medium, substance, within which they can be observed, so that the true nature of the mediu...
I see what you are arguing, that it's a different type of information then. I acknowledged this already, it's information relevant to the history of i...
The will is the power to resist any action which one is inclined toward. That's why it takes will power to break a bad habit. In this sense, every act...
Plato's literature may display a method, but so do those "whoppers" which are called the gospels. These so-called "myths" demonstrate a method which c...
Rather than add my own personal opinion to the melting pot of Wikipedia, I'd rather just be skeptical of its high degree of subjectivity. But I've hea...
I agree with what you are saying. My post was directed at Manuel who implied that Russia was the "enemy", and NATO was formed for the purpose of conta...
Why do you now attempt to qualify "information" with "exclusively from a religious text", and, "about the nature of the world". What you said was an u...
Are you saying that you believe that in all the reams of religious material which exists throughout the world, there is absolutely no information ther...
Yes, you might say that all living beings, including us, are in a way "natural". But the matter I brought up, is what we, as natural human beings crea...
Well, the issue as I see it, is like this. The continued existence of the State is dependent on the continued existence of the ruling class, the purit...
Yes, that is usually the problem. It involves how we interpret what is evident to us ( i.e. the evidence). Differences in interpretation allow differe...
If I remember correctly, the biggest dispute between Leibniz and Newton was concerning the importance of Newton's "momentum", mass times velocity, whi...
No, I don't think they got the order confused, it seems reasonable to me. But I don't really understand the first degree of corruption; it's described...
The first degree of corruption is honour. It is described as coming about through some mathematical principles which allow the prescribed principles o...
As a source, look up artificial in the dictionary. The point though, is that if science is the way toward understanding the natural, then if we use so...
Jamalrob is right. And I think part of the argument is that the person best suited to rule is the one who least wants the job, because to provide the ...
Let's reject the latter claim then, being to totalizing and unjustifiable. Now we are able to allow the possibility that there is more to reality than...
I think it is a very good analogy, just like today, many people believe in God and go to church. This is an ancient tradition which has come down from...
There is a very real and evident problem with the way that Wittgenstein describes obeying a rule, and that is that this way of looking at rule followi...
I think that the same prejudice which constitutes the materialist attitude closes an individual's mind to the reality of how vast and truly unknown th...
I don't exactly agree. For Wittgenstein, "obeying a rule" is to be observed and judged to be acting in a way which is consistent with the rule, hence ...
He presents it as what was believed by "all who believe in the existence of gods", what he calls "our distant ancestors". If someone were writing toda...
I believe this is a good interpretation, and the difference here amounts to the difference between a descriptive rule and a prescriptive rule. When we...
What about -1? The thing about equating kinetic energy with potential energy is that it seems to involve some kind of category mistake to describe the...
Notice two things here. First, "they gave...". Obviously, this is someone else's principle being referred to. Second, it's a primary "body" being refe...
Well "equal" is a human conception, so equality is fundamentally artificial. I suppose that's the point of the thread. But if we say that there are sy...
That's right. As I explained, this is the way that many good philosophers like Plato and Aristotle write. They lay out all the evidence as clearly as ...
In mathematics, it is often said that the left hand side of the equation represents the very same thing as the right hand side, a specific mathematica...
This type of description misses one very important aspect, and that is the will to learn. The distinction between "ready-to-hand" and "present-to-hand...
Symmetry, in its modern conception of mathematics, involves exact equivalence, invariance. Any such reversal is not a part of the symmetry, but eviden...
Yes, this is where the problem was, the idea that the movements of the heavens could be represented as "perfect geometric figures". In a nutshell, thi...
Wasn't NATO more like a response to the second world war? So it's purpose is to deter any rogue state from becoming too aggressive. Therefore it has n...
Are you saying that a thing must be independent from itself to be real? Isn't it sort of contradictory, or at least in violation of the law of identit...
Th idea of "Universal Grammar" seems analogous to the idea of "inter-subjectivity". People take a variety of very wide ranging activities, which are q...
Yeah sure , "unacceptable" is an English word which Aristotle would not be in the habit of using. Logically, he proves that the principle is definitel...
Look closely at your quote Appollodorus: "Complete" here implies ends. And "ends" is incompatible with "without beginning or ending". It is very clear...
Excellent example Agent Smith. I don't know why we didn't bring this up earlier. As the basis for conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy...
This makes "change" dependent on measurability. But measurability is dependent on the human capacity to measure. If you remove this requirement, measu...
That's a position he's refuting at that point. I'm tired of your false references. There is no explanation there, only confused bits and pieces of a w...
I agree with this. Now, do you agree that when we describe a motion as a circular motion, it is not necessarily eternal? And this is where the problem...
I believe it is a mistake to understand "language" as one coherent whole, as if we could have a concept of language which would encompass all aspects ...
Well then read De Anima Bk1 Ch3, and tell me what you think it says, if you disagree that he is obviously arguing against the rationality of eternal c...
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