Metaphysician Undercover

You asked me: It is not concepts all the way down, I am dualist, so I see (apprehend with my mind), that there are aspects of the sensible world which...

Here's something to consider. There is an age old line of thought which holds that the entire sensible universe must be recreated at each moment of pa...

The reason why the hinge is not doubted, is because it is unreasonable to doubt it. It is unreasonable because of what fooloso4 says, so much hinges o...

I perceive a deep divide between idealism and materialism which was propagated by Hegel. He laid the grounds for unabashed idealism to swallow up west...

No, I'm dualist, I apprehend both, with a fundamental incompatibility between the objects which I see, and the concepts which I understand. It goes bo...

Reminds me of Pink Floyd Animals "And any fool knows a dog needs a home A shelter from pigs on the wing."

When I look around, I do not see force, nor does "f=ma" refer to a state of affairs, it is a universal, which is a generalization. Force is a concept....

If they are distinct and different language games then they are incommensurable because commensurability would produce one game. This is why equivocat...

I would dispute this "correctness" is determined relative to a language-game. There is nothing to indicate that one language-game would produce a more...

That's what mathematicians claim, so I would think there is some truth to it. If there is anything more than math, being referred to, this is dependen...

That's the problem with describing reality in terms of possible worlds, we lose the premise whereby we distinguish what is actually the case, the real...

What Plato placed at the top of the hierarchy is the study or knowledge of ideas and forms. But I do not think that "certainty" is the proper descript...

This is well said, and I will extend this to point out that the whole concept of "the Universe" is just a human construct as well. So it makes no sens...

So, what's this new information?

The idea of spatial expansion is just an escape. When objects are observed to be moving faster than the speed of light, it is proposed that the substa...

I think you provide a very good argument. "Life" as we use the word, is defined by what we find here on earth. I've heard it said before that terrestr...

I still think you're lying. I don't believe there is any such thing as proof that "2+1" denotes the same object as "3" does. I think it's false, and I...

If you had the ability to get a song out of your head I might be inclined to call that uncanny.

I can't help it if your terminology is a little off the beaten path. You kept referring to a "method of models", and I couldn't even find that on goog...

So reconsider what you said in the op now: Let's start with the assumption that "there's no way to tell if the note you hum is the same as the note in...

I find nothing about the "method of models" in my google search so I tend to think it is something you made up as a ruse, citing all these prerequisit...

The problem is that it's not really "the same". Tones of the same frequency from two different instruments are not the same tone, for example, there a...

The resolution to this is issue is to realize that they are not ever "the same", but they are the same type. Unless one has absolute pitch it's just a...

Thanks for the example --- not that I understand it.

That's the way Aristotle designed his system of logic, from the premise that matter is unintelligible. Part of the physical reality is intelligible, f...

I don't see your point. Your ones and fives, and my tens and twenties are physical objects like bricks. And each one of your ones is different from ev...

Come on TIDF, it must be a simple proof, if it exists, just like in the Fonda example, we look at the person denoted by "father of Peter", and also th...

I don't buy this, because you and I are different, just like two bricks are different. If two bricks are different why would you think that any one pr...

Of course screws and bricks are objects. Why not? I take for the defining of "object", individuality, particularity, and this is described as a unique...

As I explained, "equal" in both of these uses is based in a value system. If you truly believe that having an equal numerical or quantitative value ju...

I mean to assume that a number is an object. Do you know what "true" in the sense of correspondence means? It means to correspond with reality. So tak...

If I did not ask it in the exact way that I repeated it, I apologize for the unclarity. But, here: These two senses utilize the same principle. They e...

I made my decision through an assessment of the results of the semeiotic (Peircian) definition of "object". You have "objects" which violate the law o...

That itself is a judgement, that these unwritten equalities are equalities. Clearly equality remains a human judgement. See "equal" is a human concept...

Set theory, and the axiom of extensionality. I conclude that you didn't read, or for some reason couldn't understand what I said then.

Probably the best analysis of the nature of the soul, ever written, is found in Plato's Phaedo. The idea that the brain is the cause of the mind, is v...

The question though, do you see that I have very good reason to reject those definitions? They increase ambiguity, leading to equivocation and categor...

I asked you for an instance of equality which is not a human judgement. You didn't give me one. That's probably because you understand that such a thi...

I know that's what you think, but I disagree. I think that you're way of looking at things creates ambiguity in the meaning of "object", which leads t...

Equality is insufficient for a judgement of "same". That's very simple, clear, and obviously true, from all the instances where equal things are not t...

Sure there is pure signification, in the case of any abstract use, a universal, like "temperature", "big", "good", "beauty" "green", "wet", and the li...

Do you know the law of identity? It states that a thing is the same as itself. It says nothing about equality or equivalence. That two things are equa...

Why then did you insist on a distinction between "signification" and "denotation" in the other thread, when here you want any signification to be a de...

I told you already, extensionality provides a false premise. False premises produce unsound conclusions, which do not prove anything. When a human bei...

That's not true, because the operation signified by "+" is not evident in the group of three apples, so it is not a true representation of "2+1". It i...

To adhere to the distinction you made for me in the other thread, in much usage of signs, probably the majority actually, the signs have significance ...

Then the example is irrelevant to the issue we are discussing, that "2+1" denotes the same object as "3". You joined the discussion a bit late, and se...

Sure looks like fancified Platonism to me, if a subject must denote an object. I really don't understand your position. You assume that fictional char...

These are nonsensical assertions. You are asserting that it is a fact that these words refer to these objects regardless of how people use the words. ...

Where's your grammar? Fictional characters are known as subjects, not objects. Your claim that "Hamlet" refers to an object is unsupported by any conv...