Metaphysician Undercover

They only appear as "unfalsifiable" because you have not defined your terms, "God", "exist". Once you provide clear definitions you'll see what I mean...

None of these qualify as an "unprovable" inductive conclusions, or universals, which is the substance here. One could make up all sorts of nonsense an...

Banno seems to think that a proposition can be claimed as "unfalsifiable" without proving that it is unfalsifiable. But this is just a ploy to avoid h...

As I explained, these two are contradictory. Unfalsifiable means impossible to falsify, which implies necessarily true, therefore proven.

This is how the problem of induction is resolved. It appears like an inductive conclusion cannot be proven. But an inductive truth is impossible to fa...

I have nothing against "natural logical structure in communication". But we cannot conclude that natural logical structure implies rules, just because...

As I said, I don't believe there is such a thing as the rules of semantics. You can keep talking as if you believe that there is, but that won't chang...

The point remains the same, even if you express it in this way. All that meaning between 1 and 0 cannot be expressed in the digital system. Right, tha...

The entire universe is involved in self-organization? I thought only living things did this.

Right, that's why I said what "information" refers to in information theory is something completely different from what "information" refers to in muc...

If that is your view, and belief, how do you account for all that meaning which is excluded as not meaningful, by that position, as I explained above?...

I really don't believe that thinking can be identified with being in this way. This is because "being", though the "ing" signifies an activity, is rea...

How would you separate "hardwired tendencies" from conscious thinking habits which are learned at a very young age. Perhaps it's the case that all pre...

But do they? Or, do you really believe this? What I've been trying to tell you, is that the binary system is really a great restriction to meaning. It...

The problem is, that you must be sure that the correct answer is amongst the options, or else the question is not necessarily a valid representation. ...

Right, and thought is always directed toward some want or desire, indicating that something is lacking, so the more appropriate argument would be I th...

I don't see how you can describe that as a matter of reducing specificity for an increase in generality. It's the very opposite of that. Reducing the ...

I think you must have misunderstood. If you perceive a contradiction, then point it out to me so I can see what you're talking about, and maybe clarif...

The information is "it rained in the Sahara", just like in the other instance, the information is "it rained in Oxford". How is whether or not this is...

As I pointed out, the surprisingness is only related to external information concerning the frequency of rain in these places, it has nothing to do wi...

I believe the man was a psychological genius, but is largely ignored as such.

Long live the Commonwealth!

I don't think this is a valid conclusion. It rained in Oxford has the same degree of information as does it rained in the Sahara. The "shock/surprise ...

The "limits of reason" is not the issue here.

I don't think they're hypocrites, that's why I objected to your representation, which appeared to represent them as hypocrites. When someone enters a ...

We could say the same thing about tim as well. Boy this thread has degenerated. A true representation of its title.

The point is, that such an admonishment is an intellectualization itself. Therefore presenting this as you do, is to represent Buddhism as hypocritica...

Nice article Wayfarer. It describes how what is foundational, or basic to communication is uncertainty. This is contrary to what many on this forum ar...

Why do you describe the content of thought as "incorrect understandings". Do you think that thought is necessarily wrong?

In metaphysics there are two distinct customary ways (sets of conditions) for violating the law of excluded middle, one is neither is, nor is not, the...

You didn't say it, but you implied that. I can't say that I know all the precepts of Buddhism, but I really do not think that it provides you with the...

We are inclined toward things which have value. And it's the rare things which have high value.

You must have missed my posts then. I was trying to determine whether the person's action, of burning the book, demonstrated a valid point. First I sa...

Why "process"? Do you deny the possibility of a static relationship? Are not the relationships between 1 and 2, 2 and 3, etc., static? How is Joe's we...

I "don't get it" because it's so blatantly illogical, and I can't believe that you could call this logic. I was naively hoping that you might be able ...

There is just as much necessity to determine where the wise man goes wrong, as there is a necessity to follow the direction of the wise. No one is cap...

I can't believe you call that logic. Logic is supposed to rule out other possibilities, not simply ignore them. Your premises are sorely lacking. That...

Are you saying that all relations are causal? What about something like Joe is heavier than Ron? Isn't that information which is not a matter of causa...

Right, the symptoms which are observed are the effect of the underlying condition, and the event is a sort of trigger. The trigger is not the cause, a...

So, let me give you an example of the ambiguity then. See the ambiguity in your usage? You start out by saying information is in the complex thing. Th...

That's the malarkey right here. When have I ever said anything even remotely like what you quote me as saying? It doesn't even sound like anything I w...

I believe our society has a tendency to streamline normalcy more than what might be necessary. So students are funneled through a narrow passageway. T...

Here's an unorthodox way of looking at intuition. Intuition is like an inner voice, which inspires one to act in any particular way; the actions might...

This is a key point which I made earlier in the thread. You say "these are of a negative nature", referring to these thoughts, or "voices". But we nee...

"Information" Is an ambiguous term which allows the modern materialist, or physicalist, through the use of illusion, to escape the need for God in met...

Oh yeah, after the thousands of lies that Trump has made while in office never lost him any support, what's going to change now?

The fact that some people are worried that a vaccine might cause an autoimmune disease, does not constitute a logical relationship between vaccines an...

The god of the Old Testament is definitely described as jealous on a number of occasions. That's why we wants Abraham's people, the Hebrews, to worshi...

I went through the article quickly to get the gist of it, and I find it a good comparison. But I don't accept Hegel's dialectics of sublation. I don't...

Subitism is an excellent topic for a thread of its own. It figures prominently into Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" but remains unexplai...