I find the most compelling and important argument in The Phaedo is the argument against the soul as a harmony. As a harmony, continues to be the popul...
You must know by now, that I do not accept "real number" as a valid concept. Your insistence that I must accept real numbers as a premise for discussi...
What the capacity of free will demonstrates to us, is that there is no continuity of existence from past to future. This means that any existing objec...
But Pi obviously is a principle, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter. So, clearly it's you who is wrong, to say that pi is "th...
This is clearly wrong. The ancients did not have real numbers, so they could not have known pi as a real number. They knew pi as the ratio of a circle...
Is this where we can come to get liked? Maybe the incels would benefit from something like this. A zero on your forehead might look pretty good to som...
The vast majority of mathematical principles, like pi, and the Pythagorean theorem which we discussed, are not fictional, and that is why mathematics ...
Yes there is a physical reason for this. The pieces cannot be floating in air, nor can they randomly disappear and reappear in other places, nor be in...
I don't see why this is a problem for you. You hand me a proposition, and I refuse to accept it, claiming that it is false. You say, 'but I am not cla...
And I'm insane to question the metaphysics of a person who rebukes the skeptic with 'it's science therefore your demonstrations of deficiency are irra...
This is not true. You've been making arguments about "pure math", and "pure abstractions". So it is you who is making a division between the applicati...
Since you're refusing to address the issue, I'll take the time to characterize you, as you did me. You present us with bad metaphysics, and call it "s...
Seems you're incapable of sticking to the topic. Why? Is it because you actually know how completely ridiculous, and completely unscientific, your des...
I've read Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek philosophy. Plato had "the good", and descriptions of how the mind, reason, must prevail over the ...
I believe that the Latin passio means equally "enduring" as it means "suffering". So we cannot focus only on the suffering aspect, but we must also co...
Those are not observations. They are interpretations made through the application of dubious theories. I know that you don't agree that the theories a...
Right, we know how you use that word "insane": " the 'inflationary period', while brief, was insanely rapid". When you don't understand something you ...
Right, because Fooloso4 (sorry, I said Apollodorus) had mentioned Plato's tripartite soul as context, in the passage which your reply was in response ...
I think what Apollodorus was referring to is the position of "spirit", sometimes translated as "passion" (which I prefer), in Plato's tripartite soul....
We didn't get any education in philosophy in high school, so I wasn't exposed to Plato or Platonism until university. What I find, is that in Plato's ...
Don't forget that we might assume an infinite number of points between any two spatially separated points, then we really do have an insanely fast sep...
Actually, if you look really closely, you'll see that the issues haven't been resolved yet. I think you have something to work on Apollodorus. Get bac...
Even by the time of Aristotle there was no such thing as one consistent "Platonism". Aristotle claimed to refute "some Platonists" with his cosmologic...
That's a good question. But if all such principles can be said to have empirical causes, then how can you say that you have a mathematical concept whi...
I have a number of issues with this passage. Any concept which originates in real world concerns cannot be said to have been produced from an appeal t...
That is evidence that mathematics, and what fishfry calls "formal abstractions", are not separate, or independent from the world, as fishfry argues. T...
Thanks for the reading material fishfry, I've read through the SEP article a couple times, and the other partially, and finally have time to get back ...
I believe the distinction between real good and apparent good (good as apprehended by the individual), was first presented in its primitive form by Ar...
No, not all acts are based in reason. Reason is a property of the conscious mind. But that they are not based in reason does not mean that there is no...
You know it's an oxymoron to talk of a symbol without meaning. If it doesn't symbolize something we can't call it a symbol. Anyway, a physical symbol ...
Yes, I think that's the distinction I've been describing to Luke, the difference between inherent order, and order as created by the human mind, what ...
Socrates professed to know nothing, so his beliefs are scarce. I think that the Euthyphro dilemma was simply presented as an indication of the problem...
I don't think I'd call it an aspect of mind, rather an aspect of life. It is evident, that at the most fundamental level, living beings make use of in...
To me, that means he did not uphold the conventional rules of what it means to be pious, in his society. I think it says very little about his beliefs...
This is not true, we use empirical evidence, and deductive logic. It's called science. The hypothesis is the representation, and it is judged accordin...
Hi Frank, I wouldn't say that Socrates was atheist, I would say that his form of theism was non-conventional. Couldn't we say the same of Jesus, that ...
No, I am saying that the person who assigns possibility, in that situation, has no regard for truth or falsity, in that act. How could possibility be ...
No, what is being measured is the passing of time, which is better described as the rate of such changes. The "rate" requires relations between change...
I replied to this, in the last post go back and read it. That is such an unreasonably bad interpretation of what I said, that I think any reasonable p...
I think it might be useful for you to distinguish the two principal senses of "time", as Aristotle did. First, "time" is primarily used to signify a m...
I said, the assignment of possibility is done without regard for order. Sorry Luke, your interpretation is so bad (no wonder you see contradiction in ...
That's not true. Possibilities are limited by the actual state of the world. Anything claimed to be possible, which is not allowed for by the present ...
I didn't see any mention of "higher truth". And I really don't think you've provided any explanation as to how lies, fictions, and untruths could be "...
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