I believe that what is demonstrated by Parmenides, in the Parmenides, is that the concept of, "the One" is logically incoherent. No matter how it is p...
Because the interpretation of Wittgenstein's example which you gave me was based in the type/token distinction, and I've been trying to tell you, to n...
Question #1 was never answered. I gave an opinion and you gave an opinion, they differed, so the question was left as unanswered, inconclusive, and we...
There is no hiding behind the type/token distinction here, you have made it front and centre, as the standard for interpretation. So I've used it to d...
But these are different things. These distinct causes are described, and named, as distinct and different things, To say that different things are one...
We've been through this for weeks with your type/token distinction. You argued "the sensation" refers to a type, I argued it refers to a token. You si...
Right "what the word means" implies that it has a determinate meaning. What I am claiming is ambiguity, and therefore that there is a multitude of pos...
Your grasp of the English language is a bit disconcerting (but nothing unusual there, it's common place in our society). It seems you've taken princip...
I believe that what is the case is that there is always an incommensurability between two dimensions. This is demonstrated by the irrationality of the...
That looks like a very bad conclusion. You've just separated necessity and possibility such that they are completely distinct, one having no part of t...
I told you, I believe it is used in an ambiguous way. Do you understand that? It is a common tool in creative writing to leave the meaning of a word u...
To use your type/token distinction, It could refer to what you call a type, or it could refer to what you call a token of a type, as we've discussed. ...
No, it's distinctly called "a cause". So a purpose acts as a cause, through intention and free will. Do you understand, and believe in, the reality of...
The answer to the question is negative. "That is not agreement in opinions but in form of life." Obviously, the example I made would be analogous only...
My translation gives what you present as the statement: "What is true or false is what human beings say", as a question: "So you are saying that human...
In The Republic, the good is compared to the sun, in the sense that the good makes intelligible objects intelligible, in the same way that the sun mak...
Another example of your misreading. A multitude of things is not a thing. Sorry, I should have wrote "no thing", instead of "nothing" which is a bit a...
Aristotle says philosophy is an inquiry into first principles. And if there is an equality in principles of a hierarchy then it might not be possible ...
This appears to be distinctly inconsistent with what Wittgenstein says about language and boundaries at PI 68-70, though he does seem self-contradicti...
I think the resolution to our disagreement is to see that "the good" as described by Plato, chiefly in The Republic, is not a Form. This places it in ...
Yes I see that, but if you read carefully you'll see the reason for the conclusion, that there are no ultimate simples. The idea is logically incohere...
The belief in one ultimate first principle, is distinct from the belief that the One is the ultimate first principle. I think the former is compatible...
You didn't explain how it was relevant, and I couldn't see the connection. No, the English language does not have real existence. That is one thing th...
Negation is the way to certainty. In a world of possibilities, we cannot say what necessarily "is", though we can exclude what is impossible as "is no...
Yes, you should have. And please, if you can, refrain from blurting out ridiculous things about me, such as that I am "convinced of something along th...
Why not? Truth and falsity are important features of our communicative reality, and extremely relevant to the subject at hand, the supposed PL:A. Reme...
Well I know it's not what's being claimed, that's obvious. I didn't say it was being claimed, those words are my means of explanation. I really don't ...
You are willfully ignoring what I wrote, how Aristotle describes what Plato said, at 987b. This is where the detailed report of what Plato said on thi...
This is how we decide conclusively whether two temporally separated instances of what appears to be the very same thing, actually are two instances of...
You'll see that your footnote refers to your previous reference. And here, Aristotle discusses the difference between the Pythagoreans, and Plato. Whe...
Consider: pain definition1, unpleasant bodily feeling, and pain definition.2, suffering of the mind. Each of these two have distinct subtypes, which d...
I think I just tend to reflect back what gets thrown at me. Maybe it goes back with more force than it comes at me though. Try this Banno. If somethin...
There is no reason for you to insert "the Platonists" here. I see footnotes mentioning Pseusippus in this section, but it's well known that he was not...
This is the principal feature of the difference between Luke's interpretation of the so-called private language argument, and mine. Luke believes that...
Yes, and "God" is a subject of philosophy and religion. But "God" is not the subject of the spiritual experience, so the mistake is yours. Some people...
A "reasonable distinction" does not constitute a criterion of identity, which is what Wittgenstein is talking about. Agreed, this is what I kept telli...
Why do these need to be "aspects" of the soul, and not simply the soul itself which is responsible for these things? Otherwise, we could start naming ...
OK, but by that logic I can say that the headache I had last second was not the same headache as this second. Or we could say that it changes by the n...
I was talking about something philosophical, understanding the existence of a cause which is unobservable, through observation of its effects, with th...
According to Aristotle, at your quoted passage, Plato differentiated between three categories, sensible things, Forms, and numbers. Numbers come from ...
That's obviously wrong. Clearly there are many different types of pain. That's exactly what being divisible into many different types means, that ther...
Sorry Luke, I can't demonstrate to you, the way that you are using a word. If you can't remember, reread the posts. No, there are many different types...
OK, so you define "the One" with "first principle", so that passages which are translated with the use of "first principle", you interpret as "the One...
All right, I'm not worried, I've hit myself with a hammer enough times to know what it feels like, and also to know that there is never any tokens for...
I have sensations, but as I explained to you, they do not consist of tokens, if I maintain consistency with the way you use the word "token". I am not...
Aquinas might have thought that the existence of God "can be "self-evident", but he explicitly said, "in so far as it is not". I think you misundersto...
Here's the problem I have with these principles. The "intellect" which we know about is the human intellect. And this intellect is a property, or attr...
You can tell me about your claimed token all you want, that's a far cry from producing it. Yeah, I'm masochist and Luke readily submits to my desires....
I claim to be in pain. Yet the question remains, either I have pain or I don't. Where do you think the token is? My claim is not the token. I am waiti...
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