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Metaphysician Undercover

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I'd like to know how you decide what is legal and what is illegal in this context.
October 10, 2020 at 01:23
There's a couple things wrong with this question. First, the government agency has no allegiance to one party or another, so it's wrong to say that it...
October 10, 2020 at 01:06
I'll start with a bit of an outline. Traditional idealism has a deficiency which becomes evident when the theory of participation, which supports it, ...
October 10, 2020 at 00:48
I don't see how your masturbation is relevant.
October 09, 2020 at 23:46
Good reason to be skeptical. Yes, follow Banno's advice KK, use your common sense and be skeptical. No it isn't absurd to question everything. That's ...
October 09, 2020 at 11:05
Some people, myself included, claim that Plato himself refuted Pythagorean idealism, before Aristotle. The modern representation of Platonic realism i...
October 09, 2020 at 10:33
I don't know what you would mean by "Accident" here. Isn't an accident a property of an intentional act? So the so-called First Cause would be an inte...
October 09, 2020 at 00:29
Your use of the word "system" in this post is somewhat misleading. "System" implies boundaries which distinguish internal from external, but the bound...
October 08, 2020 at 10:46
And China's going to pay for it!
October 08, 2020 at 10:14
What kind of nonsense is this? Isn't the point to posting and participating here, to get other people's ideas? Try chewing on that.
October 08, 2020 at 01:59
I wasn't making a judgement about whether the cosmological argument is true or not, so whether that's debatable is beside the point. That's why I didn...
October 08, 2020 at 01:24
I really believe that most people are not actually in fear of covid-19. They practise physical distancing measures as a moral responsibility to protec...
October 08, 2020 at 01:13
Purgatory and hell are paradise?
October 08, 2020 at 00:08
I recommend drug tests.
October 08, 2020 at 00:01
The point is that a potential cannot be a cause, only something actual can cause anything. Notice that in your descriptive example, there are supposed...
October 07, 2020 at 23:49
Hey Mayor, I saw on the one thread that you've now been promoted to mayor of God. Now that's entertainment.
October 07, 2020 at 12:30
Is "the attribution of meaning" simply interpretation to you? If so, how do you account for the difference between putting words together to say somet...
October 07, 2020 at 12:26
A big problem here is that Aristotle's cosmological argument explicitly denies the concept of "Eternal Potential" as an impossibility. This is why the...
October 07, 2020 at 11:35
The Forum appears to have reached a new level of boringness, never before achieved.
October 07, 2020 at 01:22
You don't think covid is disastrous on its own?
October 05, 2020 at 00:03
What is "excellence" if not a healthy being? I didn't say that it's always bad to push oneself hard, I said it's bad to push yourself hard when you ar...
October 04, 2020 at 23:31
Hey man, pushing yourself too hard is unhealthy. And to justify pushing yourself to an unhealthy extreme with "I have to eat", or "I have bills to pay...
October 04, 2020 at 21:59
Information about Dr. Patel, on the web, is scant. I would assume that the use of "an object feels the effect of..." is not accepted physics, but an e...
October 04, 2020 at 11:44
It sounds like you've got some bad habits. It's not healthy for the individual who is sick, or for those in one's surroundings, for a person to go to ...
October 04, 2020 at 03:16
I don't know about you, but I would never go to work if I had the flu. Why would you even think of doing such a thing?
October 04, 2020 at 02:51
Do you think that an inanimate object has the will power to resist, (even for an extremely short period of time) being changed by the force which it i...
October 03, 2020 at 23:34
I would say that you're definitely right that this is a matter of metaphysics. But some metaphysics is supported by science while other metaphysics is...
October 03, 2020 at 23:31
You clearly have a misunderstanding. They are not even in the same family.
October 03, 2020 at 21:59
Judging by how you refuse to address the issues I point to, and continue to be unwilling to acknowledge any of the problems of the Standard Model, I t...
October 03, 2020 at 18:51
I think it's been demonstrated that the position of the photon is non-measurable because it's simply not in any place when its position cannot be dete...
October 03, 2020 at 13:01
Paranoia!
October 03, 2020 at 12:57
There's no retraction. "Comes from", as in "the cause of" is not the same thing as the attribute itself. This is why I emphasized the fact that energy...
October 03, 2020 at 12:49
A photon appears at one place and then another. We cannot say that anything happens to it in between because we cannot confirm that it even exists in ...
October 02, 2020 at 10:46
Because that's what we call what we experience as time passing, "time passing". How do we know that water is water? It's what we call it. If you want ...
October 02, 2020 at 00:25
Persuasion is not based in learning, as the existence of deception demonstrates. To be persuaded into believing a falsity is not an instance of learni...
October 01, 2020 at 10:56
No, you cannot say that the mass of a hadron is equivalent to the sum of the mass of the parts, that's exactly the fact that I've been trying to impre...
October 01, 2020 at 00:44
The mass is intrinsic to the hadron. But, there is something called mass-energy equivalence, made famous by Einstein. Nuclear energy is produced by th...
September 30, 2020 at 12:01
Exactly, neither quarks nor gluons have substantial mass in relation to hadrons. That's why your claim to know that inertia comes from an external sou...
September 30, 2020 at 01:49
The protons and neutrons, hadrons, have mass, and therefore account for the inertia of a molecule. Quarks only make up a very tiny portion of this mas...
September 29, 2020 at 10:46
Try this KK. The "strong interaction" (gluons) is responsible for the mass of protons and neutrons, and it acts from within the nucleus of the atom, n...
September 29, 2020 at 01:29
You really haven't explained how the Higgs field produces inertia. You've just asserted that this is a fact. What I'm intolerant toward, is opinion pr...
September 29, 2020 at 00:36
Talking with someone who insists we know with confidence what inertia is, it is what is produced by the Higgs field, makes boring conversation, in my ...
September 28, 2020 at 10:50
A line segment being composed of points is a contradiction in terms. The point has no dimension, and the line has dimension. Even an infinity of point...
September 28, 2020 at 10:26
I would say finiteness and infinity are distinct categories, and therefore cannot be put "in the same regard", without a category mistake.
September 28, 2020 at 02:00
Since we only refer to physical change in our descriptions of temporal duration, we haven't yet developed the means for describing temporal duration t...
September 28, 2020 at 01:56
No, nothing and being cannot act in unison because they would negate each other, in an absolute sense, rendering this supposed act as completely unint...
September 28, 2020 at 01:48
Right, we know that we can divide any period of time into a shorter period of time, just like we can divide numbers. So when nothing happens (meaning ...
September 28, 2020 at 01:43
Right, so reconsider my statement: That was a statement concerning belief, obviously. Now where's the problem? What makes it a ridiculous statement?
September 28, 2020 at 01:24
Here's something to consider. In "OUR" world, we talk about very short periods of time, Planck length for example. At some very short period of time i...
September 28, 2020 at 01:05
That is what I described earlier as a mistake. Following Aristotle, (and this is not Thomism it is Aristotelianism pure and simple), becoming is incom...
September 28, 2020 at 00:49