Metaphysician Undercover

The problem of course, being that it is debatable whether there is such an x.

You seem to be missing the point fishfry. Velocity is a measurement of motion, and motion only occurs when time is passing. At an instant zero time pa...

This is similar to what I was telling Ryan in the other thread on Gabriel's horn. The classical way that mathematicians apply numbers to spatial repre...

Oh come on fishfry, you're smarter than this. The current you refer to is just measuring revolutions of the driveshaft. Then the speedometer of the ca...

I understand this, but my point is that due to the nature of our universe, any such "potentially infinite process" will be prematurely terminated. So ...

Velocity is always an average over a duration of time. So-called "instantaneous velocity" is just a derivative from an average. Since velocity is a me...

It seems like you don't know anything about metaphysics, which is the study of existence. Why would you think that someone who has not studied existen...

I'm in complete agreement that an infinite process is a logically valid process. That's what I said, but it's counterintuitive to think that any proce...

I'll have the corned beef.

I give up. I've tried numerous times to answer your question, and it appears I have no idea what you're asking. It seems like you're having the same d...

Philosophy is a quest for knowledge. The true quest for knowledge starts from a lack of knowledge. That's why Socrates professed to not knowing. The "...

Your very welcome, the gratitude is much appreciated.

This is very good insight. My belief is that we need to go one step further, and apprehend an infinite process, or "irrational process" as actually im...

This is why I have no inclination toward reading the paper. It appears to inspire all sorts of nonsense like this, which I would simply reject and hav...

What I said is that I know your hand is not at absolute rest. And, I also said that if there is something at absolute rest, that thing would have to g...

That's exactly the reason why "absolute presuppositions" cannot serve the purpose of underlying any field of study, or any knowledge in general. If th...

No, I had a lengthy discussion with tim wood (to spell the name properly) before on this subject, and I'm just not interested any more. I concluded th...

In case you didn't quite get it, what you call "multiple infinities" is what I called "fix after fix". Instead of addressing the problem which is the ...

Exactly, look at the problems which envelope modern cosmology and quantum physics, due to the use of inadequate spatial representations, and a massive...

But it's not socially unacceptable to be attracted to someone of a different race. Many though, would argue that it is morally unacceptable to be attr...

Why call this "potential infinite" then? If you are certain that the process goes without end, then you are certain that it is actually infinite. We m...

Morality involves adapting your personal taste, desires, inclinations, and attractions, to socially accepted standards.

I've discussed this with timmy before, and I've come to the conclusion that the idea of "absolute presuppositions" as proposed by Collingwood, is itse...

Amazing, the things which mathematicians will come up with, in an attempt to solve their problems, instead of simply recognizing that the dimensional ...

I said your hand is not at absolute rest because the earth is moving. And you asked me how do I know this. So I answered that. How am I supposed to kn...

Because the wind blows.

What argument have I lost? "Existence" is a word which is being used here as a predicate. So we need criteria to decide which referents have existence...

It's "absolute rest" which I said is a problem, because this makes a point in time into a real situation rather than a perspective (reference frame) d...

I addressed the issue in my post. There is only a need to conclude infinite acceleration if we assume absolute rest, zero velocity, but relativity den...

There is a special field of study which delves into the nature of being, existence itself, and this is called metaphysics. Metaphysicians, being train...

To put it simply, non-dimensional existence, which is represented by the point, 0, is incompatible with our representations of dimensional existence. ...

As I explained, by way of example, to assume such a "greatest value", or "lowest value" is contradiction. When we say that the natural numbers are inf...

I've never seen the word "feith" before, and I'll assume that you mean "faith". I believe it is very important, in any understanding of belief, which ...

Why give special status to " a preponderance of mathematicians", granting them the capacity to determine the existence of things? Isn't there a prepon...

Not necessarily true, but belief requires a reason to believe. Like any form of memorizing, it requires effort, and effort is only made when there is ...

What you refer to here is the act of believing, which is distinct from, and ought not be called "belief".

I wouldn't be so quick to judge priority in this manner. Since we are essentially active beings, continually engaged in activities, I would think that...

There is no circle, because I do not equate belief with memory as if they are the same thing. Belief is derived from memory which is prior to belief, ...

All those words which you are applying in reference to your belief, "I am writing this now", require a memory of meaning. To believe "I am writing thi...

Here's what you can do to prove the reality of free will to yourself. This is something which you must prove to yourself, because the idea that someon...

What is a belief, other than a memory? Nothing. And to believe is to have confidence in what is believed, i.e. the memory. Confidence in one's memory ...

Did you read the rest of my post? What I'm saying is that 0 is not even relevant. That's what I've been trying to explain, that to describe the value ...

Yes that's what I'm saying, there is no final destination, so to even produce any representation (such as ?,0), as if it is a final destination, is a ...

If we take Aristotle's perspective, described in "De Anima", On the Soul, the difference is found in the capacities, or powers of the soul, potentia. ...

The need to assume a "supernatural" is produced by the materialist tendency to dissolve the division between the natural and the artificial. When we m...

The Pythagorean "aether" is comparable to the modern understanding of "fields". In the Pythagorean cosmology, the heavenly bodies are a manifestation ...

You don't seem to quite grasp why I reject "closer". The line is known to never reach the limit, that's the point with "infinite". So it makes no sens...

I really don't see the problem with talking about feelings as things. This allows us to compare our feelings, and understand each other. In fact, if w...

As builders, (engineers), the masons preserved and maintained all the mathematical principles which are the secrets to the universe. The Church took m...

I told you, you need to stop thinking about the numbers which make up the coordinate system which produces the shape. They are outside the shape, irre...