Sure they would appear to "conspire", because the fields associated with the emitting device would overlap and interact with the fields associated wit...
No, obviously I didn't say that science is the same thing as scientism. But assuming that a scientific theory provides us with a true understanding of...
This is the folly of scientism, the belief that the capacity to predict implies a true understanding of the phenomenon. Pragmaticism provides us with ...
I'm fully aware that there are opposing viewpoints, but I see a large number of very real problems with viewing collectives of biological entities as ...
If you compose, you will see that the possibilities for composition are significantly influenced by the relationship between the key chosen, and the p...
To say that "the sum total of...entities" is itself an entity is a mistake. There is nothing, no principle which makes a collection of entities into a...
Sorry to have to insist on something so simple Pantagruel, but "species" is a scientific term, with a rigorous definition, and it refers to a system o...
Clearly, the species is an abstraction. It is not an entity of which the individual is a part. Evolution itself is evidence that this is the case, bec...
I do not deny that we are social animals. Even insects can be described as social beings. However, I think you present a reversed and therefore untrue...
This is the perspective which I do not agree with, the one which takes intersubjectivity for granted. In my opinion intersubjectivity is not natural, ...
I don't think it's an issue of spanning the range, it's an issue of how the tones within that range are employed. The key note, the tonic, is the note...
I do not see how you believe to have made this point. All you are doing is asserting that there must be a truth about emotions and sensations which is...
Since I could somewhat accurately hit a high D, I attempted a low D, to get two full octaves of range. The low D is a bit difficult, and I might have ...
It seems to me like there is ambiguity within norms and conventions, by the very nature of what these things are. For example, the variety of answers ...
I can't say that I'm familiar with Habermas, but if everyday language is supposed to be the best meta-language, how do we approach ontology? Is there ...
There is really no such thing as "the right words", there are many options and one might seek the best. Or, a person might just allow whatever rolls o...
I would think that perfect pitch could be acquired by exercising the extremes of your vocal range. Once you determine what the note is at the very lim...
This is the point I made way back at the beginning of the thread, about radiant energy. The hot will only radiate to the cold, because of that disequi...
What Wittgenstein demonstrates with the so-called private language argument is that words do not refer to internal objects. Though this is an importan...
Yes a person will use language to communicate with oneself. This is especially true of written language, we communicate with ourselves at a later time...
I agree that the mathematics required to deal with virtually anything, can be discovered. The question for me though, is how real are the things which...
This claim is very suspicious. If a comma doesn't have meaning, then individual letters don't have any meaning either. And if letters don't have meani...
I agree, this is a situation which has greatly devalued art. But there is a further problem associated with this flooding of the art market through th...
Trump seems to be losing more than the election. The question is not how long till he's out of office, but how long until he's committed to a mental i...
Sure, but that's completely arbitrary. Someone else could switch the 0 marker and the 2 marker, to reverse this, or place the 0 in any random place an...
I think that this is an excellent idea. Take some time and just enjoy creating music. When you create something beautiful, the time is well spent, and...
If you have two spatial lengths of one mile, there is no spatial principle which makes one of them the first, and the other the second. To say that on...
Dependability does not give you a countable thing. For example, I might know that the bus will be there in the morning, for me to step on. This is ver...
That's quite an achievement, to be a very successful composer. I believe composing takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Despite the comments you s...
What more can i say? You enjoy doing it. Uh oh, something's amiss here. Don't you have at least some family, or close friends that you could play the ...
I wonder whether "spatial sequence" has any really meaning, or is it just a misnomer? If you had one, two, three, four or more distinct things with sp...
No, we're not on the same page at all, you're missing the point. If today is Jan 1 2021, then Jan 2 2021 is not existent, it has not yet happened, and...
I have an issue similar to wayfarer's. I don't see how you can say that humans, as a specific type of natural beings who have knowledge, contradicts "...
It is not "also prior in space", that's the point that you are not getting. The "first mile" is the one that you traverse first in time and is called ...
How do you not see that first and second are a temporal reference in this example? The "first mile" is the one prior in time to the second mile. It is...
As I said, I completely agree that this is the convention, and I will readily speak about such a sequence, and use "before" and "after" in this way, j...
Yes there are reasons for such conventions, they describe the way things appear to us. But sometimes they are based in common misunderstanding. We say...
It's necessary, and that is because time cannot pass unless there is a future. A future is required and therefore necessary in order for time to pass ...
Not at all, but "first" and "second" are not parts of a spatial concept. Nor do they have any spatial reference. A queue takes time to form, and the f...
You are missing out on the best part of life if you think that everything spoken must either be the truth or a lie. You might also be missing out on t...
That this is the conventional way of describing these things does not mean that it is not a mistaken way. To be understood I speak according to conven...
I don't think an "always-existing reality" makes any sense from the perspective I described. If it is necessary that there is always a future before t...
To look at the past as before is really a mistaken perspective. Our perspective is always the present. And from the perspective of the present, the fu...
The point I was making is that with only spatial reference, which tree is first and which is second, is completely arbitrary. You might add an additio...
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