Metaphysician Undercover

OK, sorry I misunderstood. But now that I think I understand, I don't see the relevance of what you said. Of course we cannot examine the coming into ...

Can you clear this up for me then? What is meant by "the grammar of a mistake"? If "grammar" concerns rules of correct usage, and a "mistake" is to do...

Sorry Mww, but I disagree with all of this, at a most fundamental level. First, we cannot philosophically examine the acquisition of knowledge with th...

Obviously I don't agree with you on that. This is because I think that time was passing before I came into the world, and I think that time will still...

As I said, Plato demonstrated long ago, that we do not base value in pain or pleasure. I gave an example, as to why a person's attitude toward pain do...

It's very easy to rationalize that. I cannot change what has happened in the past, and what has happened in the past has a very real effect on what I ...

I'm naturally persistent, so there's no need to thank me for that. However, it is you who is being patient, to put up with my persistence. Patience is...

What I was trying to say, is that value, by its very definition, is something which is relative. It is something assigned relative to a scale or some ...

I'll repeat then, what I've said from the beginning, there is no such thing as the ordinary way of distinguishing an accident from a mistake. Each par...

I'm not so sure that schizophrenia can be characterized in this way. The issue I see would be whether or not the person knows the voice to be coming f...

I don't see how a rule is an identity. It might be a principle that a person would use in an effort to identify something, but that does not make the ...

Are you familiar with Plato's Euthyphro dilemma? We could ask a very similar question here, concerning the relationship between value and ethics. Is v...

I believe that the difference between the first person perspective (that of science), and the third person perspective (the one I propose), is best un...

You're right that this is an impossible thesis. Value is by definition relative, as the worthiness of something is always dependent on a purpose, or s...

That's nothing new, they've always tracked phone records. Wait until they suspect you of committing a crime, they'll be all over your phone records. T...

OK, but the synthesis of a plurality of phenomena under a general rule is called inductive reasoning, it's not identity. What is at issue is how does ...

I don't see how the principle of identity is called for here. If a person sees a dog, and calls it a dog, then sees a different dog, and calls it a do...

This is exactly why (expressed in a different way than I), Antony's proposal of "ordinary criteria" is unacceptable. If we take a step beyond Descarte...

I think you should look into the ideology of libertarianism. There's a lot of deluded right anarchists out there today.

I really don't know what you mean by "ordinary" then. It seems like your attempts to define "ordinary" "ordinarily", and in your usage I see nothing t...

Imagining being a stone is easier. It just requires imagining being dead. Imagining being another person requires annihilating this person then creati...

One's mother?

NOS is Trump. Who would defend another, to the extend that NOS has defended Trump, except for oneself?

Sorry, I find it very difficult to imagine being another person. I find it logically insignificant as to whether I am me, or you, or John Malkovich, b...

There appears to be something significantly wrong if the ones who go against the rules of morality are the ones who populate the planet. But I guess i...

Why is it harder to imagine oneself as a school of fish than just as a fish. To imagine being a fish requires imagining oneself to be in water, breath...

None of these examples is an instance of "ordinary language". Each involves a case of judgement as to whether or not one has correctly understood, and...

Sure, the organization is a "self", but the question is what causes the elements to organize in this way. You cannot say that the "self" is the cause,...

If I'm not mistaken, a chemical reaction is a change in substance, where substance is determined by the molecules. So a chemical reaction would change...

I don't see this at all. If Nietzsche's philosophy comes from Kant, and Kant's comes from Hume, then there is a continuum here, not a revolutionizing ...

An amino acid is a molecule. A protein is a molecule. So your so-called synergy is not a matter of combining molecules, it's a matter of creating more...

You continue in your relentless efforts to misrepresent philosophy, in an attempt to validate your claim that there could be such a thing as OLP. Firs...

If you cannot get beyond the idea that past and future are illusory, you'll never understand causation.

Isn't thinking that you see things in a more objective light the very same thing as hallucinating?

Causation is a temporal concept. To understand it properly requires a true representation of time. Here's my proposal. Start with a temporal line, as ...

Mushrooms might be better. Micro-dosing is the latest trend. Just don't inject the mycelium directly. https://globalnews.ca/news/7573815/magic-mushroo...

That's a good idea. When he's no longer commander-in-chief he'll be impotent, and his psychosis not a significant threat. Talk about him will be idle ...

It's a form of change, going by. We measure the going by of time, which is called passing. Since time is always passing (changing), a "zero point" can...

Well, the Wikipedia article on homologous recombination describes enzymes as being recruited. So I guess this implies that each particular enzyme make...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26830/

An enzyme is a catalyst. A catalyst is not the cause of a chemical reaction, it is an enabler, accelerating the reaction. It is only because of this f...

How can the present be a point, when time is always passing?

Infinite monkey theory is the best defense against an accusation of plagiarism. I'm just a monkey typing random stuff, so what if it happened to be th...

No wonder the ops looked like a bunch of random sentences copied from various different places and tossed together into a salad. I hear there's plagia...

There is no such thing as "ordinary language", it is an oxymoron, and that is what Wittgenstein demonstrated. The so-called "ordinary language philoso...

I thought we were sticking to "form" in the sense of Aristotle's hylomorphism.

Right, and we all know that Trump is guilty, whether he intended to incite insurrection or not, because even if he did not intend to incite insurrecti...

You misunderstand. The word refers to the object in some circumstances, but we're talking about the concept here, the concept of "Socrates". To say wh...

I used to hold a very similar understanding, but I've progressed toward what I consider to be a deeper understanding. If we maintain that concepts hav...

It's irrelevant to the question of whether President Trump is guilty of inciting insurrection through criminal negligence. If you want to argue that t...