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This is the poverty of Pythagorean idealism, within which the universe is composed of 'mathematical objects'. It is a theory which lacks substance.
February 03, 2022 at 13:20
Is your argument like this? Intelligence produced luxury. Luxury produced laziness. And laziness reduced intelligence. If so, we start with the premis...
February 03, 2022 at 13:04
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...
February 02, 2022 at 14:22
The usual, ad hominem instead of considering the principles presented, a decidedly uneducated practice.
February 01, 2022 at 21:37
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...
February 01, 2022 at 13:31
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...
February 01, 2022 at 12:37
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...
February 01, 2022 at 12:01
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...
February 01, 2022 at 04:03
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...
February 01, 2022 at 03:48
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...
January 31, 2022 at 13:27
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...
January 31, 2022 at 12:47
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...
January 31, 2022 at 02:45
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...
January 31, 2022 at 02:21
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...
January 31, 2022 at 00:58
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...
January 30, 2022 at 14:27
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...
January 30, 2022 at 13:21
If I remember correctly, the biggest dispute between Leibniz and Newton was concerning the importance of Newton's "momentum", mass times velocity, whi...
January 30, 2022 at 02:58
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January 30, 2022 at 02:35
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...
January 30, 2022 at 02:28
The first degree of corruption is honour. It is described as coming about through some mathematical principles which allow the prescribed principles o...
January 30, 2022 at 01:52
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...
January 30, 2022 at 01:23
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 ...
January 30, 2022 at 01:12
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...
January 30, 2022 at 00:48
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...
January 29, 2022 at 22:52
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...
January 29, 2022 at 12:30
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...
January 29, 2022 at 12:08
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 ...
January 29, 2022 at 01:07
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...
January 29, 2022 at 00:36
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...
January 28, 2022 at 12:59
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...
January 28, 2022 at 12:32
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...
January 28, 2022 at 03:28
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...
January 27, 2022 at 22:56
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 ...
January 27, 2022 at 14:42
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...
January 27, 2022 at 13:49
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...
January 27, 2022 at 13:25
Symmetry, in its modern conception of mathematics, involves exact equivalence, invariance. Any such reversal is not a part of the symmetry, but eviden...
January 27, 2022 at 12:21
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...
January 27, 2022 at 01:24
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...
January 26, 2022 at 13:07
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...
January 26, 2022 at 12:52
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...
January 26, 2022 at 12:34
There's no rigour in modern word usage. Rigor mortis has set in.
January 26, 2022 at 11:43
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...
January 26, 2022 at 03:08
Look closely at your quote Appollodorus: "Complete" here implies ends. And "ends" is incompatible with "without beginning or ending". It is very clear...
January 25, 2022 at 13:55
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...
January 25, 2022 at 13:33
This makes "change" dependent on measurability. But measurability is dependent on the human capacity to measure. If you remove this requirement, measu...
January 25, 2022 at 12:41
No, I'm tired of it.
January 25, 2022 at 02:28
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...
January 25, 2022 at 01:50
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...
January 24, 2022 at 21:50
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 ...
January 24, 2022 at 13:23
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...
January 24, 2022 at 03:11