Metaphysician Undercover

This is why masks have to be mandatory. The world has too many selfish people like Book273 who say wearing a mask won't protect me, therefore there's ...

Bad example, because the individual could find something other than another individual to stand on, and reach twelve feet without another person. But ...

I don't assume that it is not so. I agree that in this context, 1+1 gives something other than 2. What I disagree with is the conclusion that therefor...

This is why there is such a thing as "ontology", so that we can have sound principles as to what constitutes an entity, and we can recognize when peop...

This self-organization, what you call "the usual Peircian reply", is the illogical part of your perspective which I indicated when I first engaged you...

That explains your actions then, you've found yourself a loophole. Go ahead, continue acting like a newborn, maybe you'll avoid the fines.

I have, that's how I know that in the science of biology "species" refers unambiguously to a system of classification. And from this system of classif...

The form "represents" the intent, but this implies that the intent is prior to the form. The intent might be the cause of existence of the form, but t...

This is not true. The cells in your body are united and supported in their existence by physical systems like the blood system, the respiratory system...

I thought masks are supposed to be quite effective. Where do you get your information from?

I thought that a bunch of Democrats are supposed to be members of a satanic cabal of elites, according to QAnon. It looks to me like "witch hunt" does...

I find your "constraints-based approach" interesting and informative, but as I've explained already, I think it has a fundamental problem of a reverse...

I guess it's just what playing music is like in general. You work long hard hours to learn a piece, practise, practise, pracitse. Still, you'll make m...

That's where I like to be, all over the shop, it means I'm on top of the situation. You are a master at changing the subject. So even when I'm all ove...

I can't believe that you do not see how this is a false premise. To know how someone else is going to perceive something requires that you have commun...

What I am saying is that the first person to use the word had some sort of intent, therefore the word had some meaning. Why the sudden requirement of ...

Right, so understanding the supposed "system" cannot adequately inform us about the behaviour of individuals who comprise that "system". And evidence ...

Truth be told, I have no interest in developing perfect pitch. It would require substantial work and would serve very little purpose to me. I would ne...

Every time that a word is used it has meaning at the time of being used, by the very fact that it was used. This means that the first time that the wo...

I don't see any logic behind this. Perhaps, statistically speaking, a useful theory might be more likely to turn out to be true than to be false. But ...

Clearly this does not apply to anything I've said. I've explained the reasons for, and given the logical demonstration as to why your system theory is...

You are showing the incoherency of your ontology here. A sign, as a sign, is created intentionally to have some reference. Without that it is not a si...

And if you were producing the highest note your body was capable of, you wouldn't be coming up flat either.

Is the system going to punish me now? I don't believe there's a system which sets the meanings to those words.

If you set your target note at the upper limit of your range you wouldn't be having this problem.

The car was the choice of TheMadFool as an example of a fallacy of division. I explained how it was not really a fallacy of division. No, I went throu...

You seem to be missing the point. Either you are talking about the car as one unified entity, or you are not talking about a car, but a bunch of separ...

I knew you were pragmatist. Pretty much anyone who vouches for the metaphysical virtues of systems theory is pragmatist. And pragmaticism is in bed wi...

Right, a part only exists in relation to a whole, and mind/soul would be attributed to the whole. Why do I need to "jump from a whole to its parts"? W...

A person can claim a "system" to exist anywhere, and assert that evidence supports the reality of this system, but the evidence needs to be judged. I'...

This is not what I said. What I said is that a part is not a thing. If "thing" is defined as having no necessary relations, and "part" is defined as h...

Thanks for the reference Pantagruel. I have read through the article, only skipping over some of the closing notes about directions for future researc...

Don't you think that this is a sort of odd way of looking at things? We think of emission as occurring at a point in space and time, at the cathode, a...

Well, maybe you could show me the empirical evidence of "distributed cognition", and explain how these instances of evidence are not better described ...

You appear to be introducing ideas here which have no support in evidence. My cognitive process is proper to myself, and there is no evidence to indic...

Rather than "instinctive and spontaneous", I'd use the word "puppet".

If the assertion is that everything has a soul/mind, then not only do the parts of the car, (if each can exist as an individual thing), have a soul/mi...

They're anti-social.

People tout emergence from all different angles, each requiring a different logical refutation. Show me the premises which would lead you to believe i...

There are many ways to show this, depending on the exact premises of emergence which are presented. The most simple and straight forward way, is somet...

This would only be the case, if a concept was something which existed independently of the human mind which creates it. And, this is how we often spea...

Well no, emergence doesn't have to be dealt with, it just needs to be rejected as illogical. That's very simple, and it doesn't really require any sub...

I would say that dualism, though it is more complicated, is the only true solution.

The appearance of conspiracy has a very limited representation in relation to what is real. As I said above, it represents something epistemic. What i...

Emergence is logically incoherent at a fundamental level. Rejection of emergence seems to leave two basic approaches, dualism and panpsychism. Dualism...

I agree with this, rhythm is basically a repetition, and without rhythm there would not be music. The average piece of music takes a fundamental rhyth...

How they weigh it?

Prejudice is not an issue in my position, because I am simply showing how yours is wrong. I don't have a strong belief, or position on the exact natur...

Hopefully it will continue every day until some point around Epiphany, at which point he'll be moved to start packing his bags.

That says it all. Scientism attempts to extend "science" beyond its domain of enquiry, through the use of false premises, such as the one you describe...