What is required when looking back like this, is to develop the mindset of a lesser developed intellect. This is what I've been trying to explain, the...
Then it seems you agree with me on this point. If consciousness is always self consciousness, then self-consciousness is the lowest, most base form of...
From what you have said, it appears clear that the hypothesis of "ideal time" has been falsified by the evidence. To appeal to "before the big bang", ...
The difference between the active and passive aspects are described as the difference between acting, and being acted on. This does not correlate to t...
There are all sorts of different relations, and some are not between objects, like the relation between hot and cold. No that's not what I meant. I me...
I'm trying to gasp exactly what you mean by "medium-specific narrative". It would seem to be a type of narrative which is specific to a certain medium...
I'm pretty sure I would not see that painting as an expression of freedom. It's far too violent, and from the description the violence appears to be i...
I agree, that this is the case once in a while. But often the artist wants the viewers to use their minds to create one's own narrative. In this case,...
I guess I just don't understand why I need help to enjoy something I already enjoy. Perhaps if I didn't enjoy it, but wanted to enjoy it, that might h...
Designating the intellect as the part of the human being nearest the divine, rather than assuming the soul as nearest the divine, is a very good examp...
I wouldn't agree with your interpretation of metal music. Drums are essential to all rock music, setting the intricacies of the rhythm. And in metal m...
The goal of "higher levels of consciousness" is your principle, not mine. It's the one I dismissed as unacceptable. So this statement is not at all re...
The divorce does not separate them, it still describes a unity, but it also puts a temporal constraint on that unity by saying that it has ended. Peop...
The problem I find is that in many cases the whole narrative might be arbitrary, imaginary, fictional, simply made up. Like in my analogy of a photogr...
Yes, all other life forms, because "soul" refers to the first principle of life in general, and as Aristotle explains it is an active principle. That ...
I've addressed this. I think Aristotle is wrong on this point, for the reasons I've already expressed. And I don't believe you've provided any observa...
The point was that the content isn't necessarily explicit. So if you take what appears to be explicit content, when the true content is implicit, then...
No, as the op defines, space is what separates individuals. Relationships, as we generally use this term are what unites individuals. "Separates" and ...
OK, I understand now, it is intended to add to the experience. It's not just something that the interpreter takes from the piece for one's own pleasur...
OK, now approaching the divine is quite distinct from being the divine. Do you agree that before we can say how a philosopher might "approach the divi...
An agreement is in no way an object or an entity, so it's not even worth your while arguing that an agreement is a non-spatial "object" or "entity". A...
A big problem with technology is that we put it to use right away, but we often don't figure out the side effects until much later. There is a lot of ...
I won't bother with this, it's so blatantly inaccurate. Plato clearly held a distinction between the earthly, and the divine, and so did Aristotle. An...
I\m trying to grasp what the point to this style of interpretation is. It's a complex system without any real value scheme. Doesn't that leave it wort...
It doesn't really seem to be an alternative, because it's completely consistent with what I was saying. You simply proceeded to turn around, looking a...
As I said, the content, and the medium itself, is inherently subjective, as it is chosen by the artist. This choice is the very base of a subjective e...
Yes, I completely agree with this. And if you think that what I said confuses the issue, I apologize for that, it was not my intention. Thanks for the...
Would you argue that I am not human and I do not have a rational intellect? I could not proceed beyond basic arithmetic and geometry in high school ma...
Yes I repudiate it. It's a nonsensical passage. It starts with ""if the proper knowledge of the senses is...". Knowledge is not proper to the senses. ...
I don't see that you have any claim to objectivity. Content is inherently subjective, the subject matter. The artist chooses the medium so the medium ...
I agree that Aristotle is inconsistent on this point, as he sometimes is. This is probably why the Scholastics had so much disagreement concerning the...
Isn't that exactly what analysis is though, to break something down into its parts, in an objective way? This is to make the divisions in accordance w...
Haha. How many times have I said, that the soul is immaterial, in this thread? I simply recognize the reality of a material separation between the sou...
So I don't really understand where the "reconstruction" comes from. Let's take a simple pattern for example. Suppose a piece of music has a rhythm, a ...
I don't think his language is very vague. It just requires a very thorough reading of much material, to get a good grasp of how he is using the words....
Sure, but "2+2=4" is rather useless accept when applied to actual things, just like "if P, then Q" is rather useless without any things that P and Q r...
The problem with this interpretation is that you are not accounting for the order of dependence of "the parts" which Aristotle clearly explains. The h...
Darwin's so-called "explanation" is incomplete. It is explained here how the animals which survive are the ones which happen to have longer necks, but...
If you say that color is a property, then when something changes from being green to being red, it still has the same property, color. So you assert c...
Sure, but if we go in this way, then as Aristotle shows, the separation of the soul from the body is only hypothetical. However, the hypothetical sepa...
"Color" does not refer to a property, nor does "shape", "temperature", or "weight". Otherwise red and green would be the same property, round and squa...
I don't see why this is difficult for you, it is simply a statement by Aristotle of what has been observed. We cannot think without some kind of image...
That's not really true AS. Change is what happens to the thing. The thing either has or does not have the property, and in the time between it is chan...
It appears like your project is to remove all human feeling and emotion from the review of an artistic piece, and analyze it as an AI would. You would...
The mortgage example is not good, it's just a ruse. Numerals have spatial presence, along with the other stated conditions of a mortgage. If we couldn...
Clearly, this separation is possible, warranted and not a difficulty, because plants have a soul, but no intellect. Therefore intellect is not an esse...
As with any company, the balance sheet is what is important. That only sick people use pharmaceuticals is a long outdated idea. But it may be the case...
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