Metaphysician Undercover

As I explained there is no need to prove what I stated. Your obsession with proof seems a little unhealthy to me. Have you ever come across the word "...

I think I said earlier, or perhaps in another thread, that there are inconsistencies and ambiguity in Plotinus' principles which make working out spec...

There are numerous reasons to dismiss this theory as ridiculous, beginning with the inability to establish a necessary relationship between gravity an...

It's all explained in that post. It appears like you just read the last paragraph, or were incapable of understanding the metaphysical problem of temp...

Matter, for Plotinus is the receptacle of form, just like in Plato's Timaeus. And, we can talk about matter devoid of form, but Aristotle demonstrated...

I don't understand your extraordinary concern with that statement. Clearly there are statements which from the theist perspective are correct, but are...

Actually I've had to explain this numerous times already. I strongly agree that .999...=1. What I vehemently deny is that the two are the same thing. ...

It is wrong to attribute inertia to the field rather than to the particle. And, the Standard Model indicates that the causal relationship between the ...

I nominate this for consideration as the most ridiculous line ever posted to TPF.

I think a privation is always of the form, when a thing is less that perfect, so matter is a separate principle from privation. I believe it was the M...

Flog it then!

The idea of absolute time here is not contradictory, it only appears contradictory from your perspective. That's the cultural relativism you refer to,...

I do not think that Plotinus develops an adequate description of the relationship between matter and good. In any case, I don't think you can say that...

This is a key part of the message in Plato's Republic. An individual will rise above the cave-dwellers, to see the light, which is the reality behind ...

I agree that not every police officer is racist. But it ought to be the case that every police officer is not racist. And the general issue of police ...

Phadoe is a bit abstract, and some people get turned off because it's so mythical. It might not seem very relevant. It's an absolute, like One, and a ...

I am very familiar with Plato, have read many dialogues numerous times. They are very interesting, and relevant topics for the modern world. I particu...

Face it, the life of a black person is not esteemed in the same way that the life of a white person is. The ideology of equity is not upheld.

I don't think that's quite right. "Good" is related to Act, and "One" is related to Potential.

I think the evidence has been presented to you already, as statistics. The delusional are those who refuse to accept the evidence. A white man is like...

I don't agree with your analogy. The people whom technology casts into positions of status and power are entrepreneurs, inventors, while the people th...

This part may be somewhat consistent with "technology". This I believe is not consistent with "technology". And the point of inconsistency begins in t...

There is a wide variety of reasons why an individual will resist arrest, starting with the situation when one perceives oneself to be innocent, and th...

If the question was, what kind of thing is religion, then we wouldn't proceed from a definition, because the object is to discuss then produce a defin...

Manufacturing a contradiction with an unwarranted definition is a mistake. And, contrary to your claim that creating this contradiction will "switch u...

What are you saying!!? Do you think resisting arrest is sufficient reason to be killed?

How could the One consist of parts in this way? Wouldn't this make it a multiplicity of distinct parts instead of being one? So for instance, doesn't ...

This is a false assumption you make. You could explain what a chair is, to a person who has never sensed a chair, and that person could have a concept...

Do you not know how to read Tim? I did not say that I offered you a definition, I offered you my preferred way of defining the term, and you rejected ...

This is completely wrong. You asked me for a definition. Clearly any word can be defined in a multiplicity of different ways. Obviously I'm going to p...

From this perspective, we can say God is a human creation, just like technology is a human creation. But I think what makes something a religion is th...

I don't see what you're getting at. If something becomes an indispensable part of a person's life, say a car, or a phone, why would you call that thin...

What does the summation of all good have to do with idolatry?

I think 180 had the more appropriate word, idolatry. I guess you might be wanting to discuss whether the worship of idols qualifies as a religion? Or ...

I don't really agree, because as I described, there are uses of symbols which are not properly communication. This would include as a memory aid, or a...

I've discussed language considerably at this forum. Generally, there are two distinct approaches. The first would be to define language as communicati...

Obviously I disagree. Using language is a matter of establishing boundaries and limits for intended purposes, as is evident with definitions imposed f...

I think what the president was talking about is "herd mentality", not "herd immunity". Herd mentality is what he believes is his best chance at gettin...

There are no boundaries intrinsic to language, it is inherently boundless. That language consists of boundaries is the notion which Wittgenstein revea...

Clearly, "the absolute" is an ambiguous concept. Therefore the way that one relates to absolution is dependent on one's perspective. Notice that "abso...

So does "proper" mean in a formal way to you? Using a suitable word for the situation does not require one to learn a definition, as we see by the way...

That's not true, look at the examples TheMadFool gave. Have you ever watched how children learn to talk? They do not learn how to use words by learnin...

The problem is that some forms of reasoning allow for the existence of contradiction, as has been discussed on this thread. A computer can easily be p...

I'm inclined to ignore, but since you don't seem to understand equivocation, maybe I can help. Here's an exaggerated example so it will be easy for yo...

His tax returns?

You demonstrate the point very clearly. Whether something appears to be contradictory or not depends on how you look at it, i.e. how you interpret, un...

Here's what Wikipedia says: "In logic, equivocation ('calling two different things by the same name') is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of...

This is not true, as I explained. Contradictory beliefs can be held by a person, so long as the contradiction is not evident to the person who holds t...

I agree, that's basically what I said, natural reason delivers us toward an either this or that sort of belief. So I don't really see your point. But ...

Sorry, I don't see the relevance.