Metaphysician Undercover

I agree, he basically says that the actual consequences of relativism are what refutes it. The problem i find is that the social "whole" which he refe...

How so? Do you mean that you know more about why you behave the way that you do, than I know about why you behave the way that you do? But we're talki...

The only thing that this demonstrates is that whatever AI you selected clearly hasn't read or understood Aristotle, and is probably relying on some le...

This is the point I take exception to, by way of Aristotle's cosmological argument. With the cosmological argument he denies the concept of "prime mat...

You definitely discussed "state of affairs" ontology with me, in your reference to an initial state of affairs. You even defined it for me: See, "stat...

I noticed.

Your definition of "state of affairs", as stated in your reply to me, does not support your claim that it is the most fundamental concept in ontology....

I actually did a post graduate course specifically on Hegel's dialectics of being. The professor refused to give me the mark I needed, even after I de...

You, yourself, actually "defend some version of ontic idealism". I'm surprised that you still haven't come to recognize this. Your first principle, ab...

The "fixed point" in negative dialectics which Adorno refers to in lecture 3 is definitely not a foundation or first principle. He explicitly says thi...

Of course, I said the proof is "irrefutable", I didn't say it was "undeniable". As you've aptly demonstrated, anyone can deny anything, no matter how ...

That's similar to the way I see it. But I think Adorno goes further, and demonstrates that negative dialectics is actually grounded, and that the othe...

I have the proof which I believe is irrefutable. You dispute the truth of one of my premises. The burden is on you to demonstrate that the premise is ...

Yes that's what I believe too, it's not given, it is derived through the inner intuition. And that's why the knowledge of the object, as myself, is su...

Putting the two together is ambiguity and equivocation. Peirce, like Wittgenstein whom some say derived ideas from Peirce, was a master of ambiguity.

That does not affect the argument. You just switched terminology from the existence of a physical thing, to a "state of affairs". By the inductive pri...

Do you see that your quote supports what I said? Time has reality in regard to "inner experience". As such it supports the reality of "myself" the bei...

I like the name. The Prairie Spy is actually a modified version of the Northern Spy. While the Northern Spy was deployed to eastern Canada, it was soo...

He was bought, for his ability to speak, and would speak about whatever he was paid to speak about, regardless of whether he had any real belief.

You confuse a sense of humour for anger. Perhaps it's not a socially acceptable form of humour, but how does poking fun at someone, or ridiculing them...

This "inherent directionality", within ontological potential, is why apokrisis' claim that physics speaks of "pure chance", and absolute necessity, is...

You're really not making any sense apokrisis. If you have an intelligent reply to my post, then please present it. Until then I have only your demonst...

I believe they are all gourds, so it's time to move along and discuss gourds now.

According to Google AI, the largest theft (by dollar value) in Canadian history was The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, 3000 tons of maple syrup val...

Are you suggesting that the metaphysician ought to be instead a physicist, and that being a physicist instead of a metaphysician would make the metaph...

Help who, the physicist?

Yes, I believe that's pretty much what Kant intended with the distinction between the inner and outer a priori intuitions. Internal ideas, as pure int...

I think that if you read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, you'll find that he characterizes space as the outer intuition (required for the appearance o...

This is why physicalism is a very problematic perspective. Mathematical axioms assume the existence of mathematical objects. This is implicit in set t...

Simply put, Kant associates space, as the outer intuition, with external objects, and time, as the inner intuition, with internal objects. So, I would...

He managed to get rich. I suppose maybe he thought all that luxury just fell at his feet.

Good point, but for many rational human beings, God is just an idea. In that case God is very simple. So , amongst rational human beings there is disc...

The pivotal point being the ambiguity in "dislike people". To dislike a person, and to tell them this, is socially acceptable. To do this to multiple ...

I think that the difference you are pointing to here, is the difference between how we speak to another individual, and how we speak to a group of peo...

The best! With well produced maple syrup you can never go wrong. Only, you forgot to mention the butter.

Well, "materialism" seems to have been left behind. But probably, "scientism" is a better word for the modern form then, according to what you describ...

In other words, physicalism claims that physics can go beyond what physics can properly do.

I think the point is that we need to take a good look at stochastic terrorism and judge whether Charlie Kirk was getting more and more practised at th...

Exactly as I said they are names applied to something not understood, nor observed, but the effects of them are observed. This is just like the theolo...

There is a huge part of the so-called "universe", dark matter, dark energy, etc., which is neither observable nor the effect of something observable. ...

Assuming that there is an objective law concerning social relations, how do you think it would it look? Traditionally, this would be God's law, and I ...

Philosophical differences are always deeply rooted, and unless the difference is very mundane (making it not a real philosophical issue) the differenc...

But Adorno clearly says: "it can just as stringently be shown, however, why this objectively necessary consciousness is objectively false". So isn't i...

In this case, you have what you called good reason to believe that the hypothesis is false. How would this affect the degree of certainty? I think it ...

And be careful how you store these fruits in the fridge too, because they can ruin the other stuff in there through the release of ethylene gas.

Freedom of speech man. We can argue God intended nothing in that respect. Go forth and make noise.

I like happenstance.

I don't see the difference. How do you explain the following? "The presumed social relativity of the intuitions obeys the objective law of social prod...

OK, now you need to recognize two distinct judgements here. One, the judgement that physicalism is the best ontology, the other, the judgement that ju...

OK, that makes it clear then, You are admitting that you do not believe that physicalism is the best ontology, you believe that it might be the best o...