When we take the present as "thick", it is inevitable that some part of "now" is future, and some part of "now" is past. I think this is what refers t...
Right, what is discussed here in "De Caelo" is the possibility of an "infinite" motion. And it is shown that "the infinite cannot move". This supports...
Can you put quantitative parameters on the initial conditions of time? If you can do this in an acceptable way, you might be successful at demystifyin...
This is like asking why should a law respecting man be treated differently than a criminal. Isn't it obvious to you why a person who adheres to a code...
Why can't time go backward? Isn't this a mystery? How can there be two "mutually exclusive" types of time? Doesn't this really mean that there are two...
This is not a distinction made by Aristotle in "De Anima". He is asking about how the soul is supposed to move its body. He describes the Platonic exp...
It's common knowledge that Aristotle's "Metaphysics" is a compilation of writings put together after his death. The part which supports the idea of et...
You obviously haven't read "De Anima" Bk1, Ch,3. I'll take your criticism seriously after you demonstrate that you've read and understood, what you ar...
I don't appeal to my "degrees" in my justification, I appeal to what has been written by respected authors, to justify my interpretation. This stateme...
I haven't read the article, I confess, though I've read the majority of this thread, still trying to determine whether it's worth reading. Streetlight...
I was talking about unacceptable principles. When an author whom a person respects to a great level, proposes unacceptable principles, like eternal ci...
If "the wave" is a theory which is intended to determine the probabilities of where a particle may be found, then it is not really active in causing t...
To expound a little bit more, the question of what happens to the soul after death is premature from my perspective. It's a question which we cannot e...
Hey, that's philosophy. When an author states unacceptable principles, we reject them, regardless of how revered the person is. Thanks for the conside...
I don't think this would work. The "waving stuff" would be transmitting energy from A to B, and also the moving particle would transmit energy from A ...
You are simply refusing to accept the facts of what is written, and the logical conclusion derived from them. I've addressed what is said "later in De...
So, when we discussed Plato you derided me for interpreting Plato through an Aristotelian perspective. Now we discuss Aristotle, and my interpretation...
And you live in 2022. Why should I listen to anything you say about these ancient writers then? I don't see your point. The nature of the soul, and it...
It has been very well demonstrated that light energy transmits through space, from one place to another, as a wave motion. The idea that there are pho...
I'd say blunt as in direct, not blunt as in something you smoke. The question of how to understand the passive and active intellect is very interestin...
You, Appolodorus have opted for the belief that the intellect , or "mind" is an immaterial power. Therefore the comparison with sight, which is a powe...
Aquinas offers what I believe to be by far the most comprehensive interpretation of Aristotle, and possibly Plato as well, with comparison to numerous...
I see a problem with this sort of thing, because the same word in different contexts has different meanings. So when you remove phrases from their con...
The realistic interpretation is the one offered to us by Aquinas. A separate, independent, immaterial intellect, (a divine intellect), has a superior ...
Yes, that is the way that the overall passage, and the concluding remark seem to fit into context of BK1 in general. But the remark is made at the end...
That's the passage Appolodorus brought up earlier. The idea of the mind as an independent substance implanted in the soul is very doubtful. And, at th...
I think the bonding of those atoms is actually quite complicated. Two different things being the same is contradiction. Left and right, as principles ...
Then the perpendicular direction is "the front", in relation to the mirror, because the mirror switches the direction front to back. You might call it...
It's not the beginning of the conflict because Saul was already engaged in the persecution of the followers of Jesus, stoning them to death. The confl...
I believe it was Paul who really pushed onto Christianity the idea of personal resurrection. It's in his letters or something like that, I can't remem...
It's not to "destroy the symmetry", but simply to see it for what it has become, a tool which has limited capacity, rather than a reflection of realit...
Is this meant to imply that flat spacers are like flat earthers? Is space curved if there is no mass? If not, then how do you know that the curvature ...
No. the rotation (or change in valence) is the 180 degree turn, to be facing the other way. That the left becomes the right when the turn around occur...
Aristotle's conception, a divine mind thinking on thinking, as the source of eternal circular motion, and the cause of heaven and earth, is demonstrab...
What I believe is that such a symmetry is imaginary, and not a true representation of space. We make up the symmetry principles, and apply them becaus...
The square root of +2 differs from the square root of -2. The reality of imaginary numbers demonstrates that one is not a mirror image of the other. I...
Not really, because +2X+2=4, and also -2x-2=4. So there is something asymmetrical there. But this is all irrelevant, because as I said, symmetry is ju...
The issue seems to be what it means to be "the highest". If we go by logical priority, the soul is the highest, as first cause of the living body, and...
The point is that there is no symmetry there. A mirror does not provide a true symmetry, as discussed earlier. Symmetry is just an imaginary principle...
I know it's confusing, but I thought I explained it well enough to dispel the confusion. When I'm reading I don't see them as words. But when I reflec...
This is a stretch of your imagination. Aristotle has volumes of material concerning knowledge of the physical world, criteria for correct judgement, e...
The problem though, is that perception has interpretation built in, inherent within. Let's go back to your example of the word "PHYSICS". When I'm rea...
The point was that I think symmetry might make a good principle to compare with our observations of the universe, to see how the universe is not symme...
We have a difference in our understanding of "medium". I would say that "music" is a classification of art form, a type of artistic expression. The me...
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