Metaphysician Undercover

Then I don't think you understand the concept of "criminal negligence". The issue, is whether Trump's actions are contributive to the insurrection, as...

So, what's that prove? "Incite" does not mean 'told them to do it'. Nor does "incite" imply 'conspired with'. Your arguments are simply irrelevant. Un...

You are simply ignoring the concept of "criminal negligence". OED, incite: "urge or stir up". Where is there a mention of the need to intend the speci...

I think that's a false representation. There is nothing intrinsic to the concept of "incite", which necessitates that the person who incites must inte...

That's a mighty fine line to draw, between "incite" and "inspire". The inciteful, or inspirational (however you want to say it) activity was the false...

I think I agree with Jack here. Studying when you're that deprived of sleep is a lost cause, you simply won't get the desired effect because you'll lo...

I'll see if I can interpret this in a way which is consistent with what I said in the last post. Let's say that there are two aspects of the holon, on...

There's still the matter of the false pretense for you to come to grips with. This is the claim that the election was fraudulently stolen. It is preci...

Do you think? I can't make heads nor tails of it.

Isn't this argument amazing? Simply stupendous! I hear the Flat Earth Society is recruiting members and looking for donations. You two would probably ...

I cannot locate, or in any way, point to this supposed concept, within me, to demonstrate to myself, it's existence as a thing. I might conjure up an ...

You might try some Datura then---when you're feeling better.

Wow, what a change in Trump's demeanour today. For four years it's been 'I'm higher than the law'. Now suddenly it's 'I'm afraid of the law'.

Javra, I understand if you no longer wish to discuss this subject. But please read through my post, specifically where I discuss the two senses of "id...

We're right back to the initial problem. If we apply the law of identity to all forms, we see that universal forms cannot have an identity. And by tha...

OK, this is a good starting point. What has the capacity to govern how we interpret "that which is physical"? Suppose we could interpret the physical ...

Do you understand what :"false pretense" means NOS4A2? What you don't seem to be grasping, is that "calling for a protest" is a false pretense. The pr...

There is never conclusive evidence of a plan, only actions consistent with one. This is the tweeting and the rallies. The big problem is with this sta...

But he also stated that he had gone as far as he could go legally. Then he continued to hold rallies during which he spoke about fighting to take back...

Like I said, criminals who are proficient liars will be allowed to go unpunished, if we allow intention to be substituted with ignorance. Notice your ...

That's the problem with Platonic Realism, in general, which is more appropriately called Pythagorean Idealism. Unless we provide the required separati...

Maybe if it was 'Putin is a gangster', then 'Putin is a gangsta', it would have gone unnoticed by the mod bots.

I think "substance" has its meaning relative to logic, and it refers to whatever grounds any particular system of logic, as what underlies it to suppo...

How did you figure that out?

I disagree. I think anyone who can't see the intent is closing their eyes, willingly ignoring, and making a judgement based in ignorance. What was the...

Any concept which cannot be substantiated (grounded in substance) is an arbitrary concept. Unless we have a principle as to what constitutes a whole, ...

The difficulty was on my part, finding something so clear, without ambiguity.

The problem here is that the number 2 is a property itself. We take a group of two and look at it as a single thing, and say that this thing has the p...

Let's see, he's been fraudulently claiming for months now that the election was stolen from him. Then he makes a statement that he's exhausted all leg...

I was just responding to your mention of 1000 years. In that time, there was a lot of enforcement. I agree that the journalistic industry was quite a ...

Yes, it's easy for you to say that standards have worked in the past, but until you take a good look at what was going on in the past, that statement ...

You think we should go back to how it was hundreds of years ago? Not long before the arrival of the printing press, speech, education, and even gather...

The machine is confined to its universe. It has a particular physical structure, and this is its confines. There is also the confines of the universe,...

Matter being potential in Aristotle's conceptual structure, I think that (a) and (b) are just different ways of saying the same thing. There is an iss...

We all lie, I think it's impossible to avoid this unpleasant fact. But a lie is an act which can be judged in relation to consequences, and intention,...

I don't think we can correctly say that anything occurs in a moment of time without any temporal extension. All occurrences require duration. Therefor...

OK, let's assume that memory is a type of talking to oneself then. I still believe that the intent involved in talking to oneself, in general, is much...

I thought maybe he was already here, under the moniker of NOS4A2. Oh, sorry about the insult NOS.

I don't think so. #1 refers to an efficient cause. #2 refers to the complete substance, matter and form. #3 is a form, or formula. And #4, referring t...

Sure, all things have an identity, by the law of identity. The point of the law of identity is that the identity of a thing is within the thing itself...

Plato a mathematician? Come on, have you read Plato's dialogues? What are you going by, the doctrine of recollection? I guess we're all mathematicians...

Life, seems like an appropriate sentence for trump.

We could say this about memorizing as well. We memorize something to get it out of mind, so we don't need to think about it anymore, therefore forget ...

OK, on the left side is an operation with a value, and on the right side is something which is not an operation, which is assumed to have the same val...

Here's a simple example GrandMinnow: '2+2=4'. On the left side there is a specific operation represented. On the right side there is no operation repr...

Yes, it's always the case, that if the very same thing is referred to on the right and the left, use of the '=' is valid. That is because a thing cann...

If two distinct things occupied the exact same space at the exact same time, I think we'd have a true violation of the law of identity.

I don't see how this relates to nominalism, but I don't agree that generalizations are grounded in universals. I think that they are both of the same ...

We're talking fundamental laws of logic. This is not soteriology. How is that even relevant? Despite the fact that the first law of logic is expressed...

The point I would argue here, is that I would agree with Russell, that no two men think the exact same whiteness, exactly as described. And, many peop...