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Well yeah, but there's a difference between holding beliefs that someone else recognizes as contradictory, and holding beliefs which you yourself reco...
September 13, 2020 at 21:34
I've got one in my backyard. It's infinitely small though, so the guests have a hard time finding it, and the rooms are even harder to find because th...
September 13, 2020 at 20:11
Supposing the wiping was intentional. Is it a crime, or sign of corruption to wipe your phone? Imagine yourself in the position of a member on that te...
September 13, 2020 at 18:12
We've been through this before on other threads, but we could start with the difference between representing an infinite sequence, and representing ea...
September 13, 2020 at 17:53
Right, forgetting your passcode is "stupid". But I don't think I know anyone who hasn't forgotten a passcode now and then. I guess we're all stupid. H...
September 13, 2020 at 16:59
Try any colour, or black is the best. If you change black to white it gets a whole different meaning. Seriously though, anything which has a particula...
September 13, 2020 at 16:45
Actually I see your descriptions as cutting off the branch your sitting on. You want to define truth in relation to correspondence, yet you keep insis...
September 13, 2020 at 16:24
A proposition without context is meaningless. So the terms in your example, "God", and "exists" need to be defined. Otherwise saying "God exists" says...
September 13, 2020 at 13:17
You can raise your ratio by replying to multiple mentions in a single post. It might actually be a good practise because it helps keep the threads nea...
September 13, 2020 at 13:08
That is the point, to determine whether contradiction truly is bad. If reality is such, that contradiction is required to accurately describe it, then...
September 13, 2020 at 12:57
I dismiss Cantor as misunderstanding. He misunderstands the nature of numbers, the application of numbers in counting, and the infinite possibility wh...
September 13, 2020 at 12:01
If this is the case, then why do we give consistency any esteem? According to the op, many would give greater esteem to consistency than to correspond...
September 13, 2020 at 00:57
Hi jerseyFlight, I'm going to apologize right now, in case it offends you, because I'm going to be curt with my reply on most the things you said. It ...
September 12, 2020 at 02:10
If there is an infinite number of guests at the hotel already, then there are no more possible guests to arrive, because that would allow for the poss...
September 11, 2020 at 10:22
Communication is a very complex subject and I'm not ready to try to explain how it works. Right we're in agreement here. That subconscious interpretat...
September 11, 2020 at 01:32
This is incorrect. Consistency says nothing about the truth of the beliefs. One could write fictitious propositions which are completely false, but co...
September 10, 2020 at 13:23
I don't believe that seeing something necessitates the conclusion that it has been observed. Observation requires that the person understands and reme...
September 10, 2020 at 00:48
This type of generalization seems to be the common response here. But no one has told me, and I can't figure out, how it relates to coherency. I was d...
September 09, 2020 at 11:49
I don't agree with this. I think that each experience is novel. I've never had two experiences the same before, though I've experienced deja vu, but I...
September 09, 2020 at 01:58
It is a use of words, but the dictionary does not define the meaning of words. It gives guidance, in the form of a general representation of how words...
September 08, 2020 at 11:03
If it is true that I "created" this, then my argument is proven.
September 08, 2020 at 03:14
In Aristotelian physics, temporal continuity is provided for by matter. Matter is the underlying thing which persists through change, as the form of t...
September 08, 2020 at 03:12
Sorry tim, I just can't understand what your saying. You asked me why I think it is unreasonable to think that because it happened in the past, the sa...
September 08, 2020 at 01:54
I just explained it in the last post. Another principle, which states the necessity of similarity is required.
September 07, 2020 at 15:28
It's called "human understanding", and it's separated off from the rest of the world, as a particular thing to try to understand in itself. The reason...
September 07, 2020 at 15:05
The principle 'it happened like this before, therefore it will happen like that again', is not logical, nor reasonable in any way. It might appear lik...
September 07, 2020 at 13:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ
September 07, 2020 at 01:04
The point is that you need to qualify these terms "some", "all", and "none", as you do in your example, with "rectangles". And, it makes sense to say ...
September 07, 2020 at 00:56
This is an example of the deep corruption inherent within modern logical systems. The requirement, to indicate that a set is not an empty set, comes a...
September 06, 2020 at 11:46
The alignment problem is the reason why method 1 is unacceptable. For those who refuse to accept that method 1 is unacceptable (some people just will ...
September 06, 2020 at 11:17
The long term effects are not well known yet, and definitely something to be concerned about. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavir...
September 05, 2020 at 21:41
What's wrong with teaching that? It seems pretty obvious to me that scholarship can't be neutral or "objective". That's an idealist fantasy.
September 05, 2020 at 21:25
This is a good start, but energy is much more than this. Energy is transferable, from one material object to another. This is why there is a need for ...
September 05, 2020 at 19:49
One can frame all the social sciences as "pseudoscientifc", but that doesn't mean social sciences shouldn't be taught.
September 05, 2020 at 19:30
So how is educating people in critical race theory supposed to be anti-American.
September 05, 2020 at 19:27
Notice that instead of referring to the actual program, and what is being carried out by the program, (the president would have clear access to this i...
September 05, 2020 at 11:31
Framed as "divisive, anti-American propaganda". It boggles the mind to think of what this guy's concept of "American" might be.
September 05, 2020 at 11:23
That ship has sailed, they're already in the WH.
September 05, 2020 at 11:06
If energy is the potential for doing work, then what's potential energy, the potential for the potential for doing work?
September 05, 2020 at 00:44
Yes, for many, organized voter suppression has become a serious election strategy.
September 05, 2020 at 00:30
There is what appears to be an irreconcilable difference between the interest of the individual, and the interest of the community. However, it is rea...
September 04, 2020 at 10:35
I've been very clear about identity, "a thing is the same as itself". Therefore, unless the form in the mind is the very same as the thing itself, it ...
September 04, 2020 at 02:10
It seems your reading skills are not so good Gregory. I have, for days now been trying to get Jersey to recognize the distinction between the form in ...
September 03, 2020 at 18:52
I didn't say "from the thing". That is just your materialist interpretation,, like saying that the image of the chair in my mind when I see a chair "c...
September 03, 2020 at 10:55
Why are you obsessed with proof? What I meant by "thorough" was complete, rather than superficial. That he wrote more words, and makes more sense, is ...
September 03, 2020 at 01:08
I said "the most thorough". Sure there are many less thorough. Do you know any that are more thorough?
September 03, 2020 at 00:47
You need to explain your use of "being", because it makes no sense to me. You are not using it as a noun, to talk about "a being", or individual "bein...
September 03, 2020 at 00:17
If I had to take a label, I'd say anti. Aquinas offers the most thorough, and rigorous interpretation of Aristotle available, so such an "indoctrinati...
September 02, 2020 at 10:58
As I explained, there is no good reason to take this position. It contravenes the conclusion of the cosmological argument, and, designating a part of ...
September 02, 2020 at 10:45
In Aristotle's metaphysics, matter without form is an impossibility demonstrated by his cosmological argument. He also explains why the form of a thin...
September 02, 2020 at 01:35