Metaphysician Undercover

This is the paragraph that I asked about. What is "the social whole"? This concept appears to form the basis of Adorno's argument against relativism. ...

When I say "I believe X" it means that I think X is the case, I think it is true. When I think X may be the case I say "I believe that X may be the ca...

It's a 3d sign, probably originally had a light inside which doesn't work anymore, making it less valuable as an antique, but still an interesting wal...

Google AI tells me that Metaphysician Undercover® is an unlawful (in other words awful) use of the symbol. Please don't ban me from the Shoutbox, or l...

That is not a Coke® machine. It is a sign on the wall. Hanover is a proud Coke® supporter and would probably never charge someone money to offer one a...

Point particles with intrinsic properties is itself an incoherent idea. Therefore you wrongly classify your interpretation as coherent. "Point particl...

What does that mean? Do you have to forfeit all the money you earn from saying that in the Shoutbox?

I take this as an admission of your own self-contradiction then. Intellectual honesty would be to admit that you were wrong in the claims you made abo...

The problem though, is in your statement that physicalism is the best ontology and the one you believe in . And physicalism explicitly excludes the po...

More precisely, physics is restricted to what we can say about nature. But metaphysics determines what we can say and is therefore not restricted in t...

We ought to recognize this as the end of the rule of science. Physics has determined the limit to the usefulness of the scientific method. And what ha...

I see the main difference being that the page turner is the individual subject, so each person would turn the page at one's own pace. The movie doesn'...

Privilege of Experience: This section discusses the importance of the subject, to philosophy.

Correct, but that relationship between the past and the future is discontinuous. That's why "the prediction" is never a statement of necessity, and th...

Yours does entail contradiction, that's the point, just like my example. Please explain how you think the two differ, other than simply saying one is ...

And some people believe Plato is outdated. Shame on them!

I don't dispute the continuity between the measuring device and the physical world being measured. Both are part of the given world. The discontinuity...

Are you suggesting that conscious beings actually turn the pages of time? or would it be just one conscious being who does this, God?

I think your judgement is unreasonable then. Since you have "good reasons" to believe something which is contrary to the essential nature of a specifi...

How about a drink? There must be a drink called a bloody cow. What good is that thing, if it can't it even mix a drink for you?

No, that's not at all what I am implying. I am wondering why you think physicalism, which holds that all is physical, is the best ontology, when you a...

That is demonstrably incorrect Janus. And this is why you need to keep your categories clear, and ensure that you understand the broader category, bei...

Properness is a requirement for consistency and coherency. Ambiguity produces equivocation. So if you really believed in consistency and coherency, yo...

If you are acquainted with skepticism, you'll understand that there is no such thing as uncontroversial facts of the world. So this proposal is a nons...

Then clearly it is illogical for you to believe that physicalism is the best ontology. You are logically inconsistent because you define physicalism a...

Let's work on bringing up the percentage of posts talking about @"javi2541997" causing the Shoutbox to reach 2000 pages. Holy shit! That's a Herculean...

i would characterize this "usual understanding" as the lazy way. It's "the lazy way" because superstitious beliefs, spirituality, and even the freedom...

I believe the issue which Wayfarer is trying to bring to our attention, is that there is a specific type of characteristic of being, which is only pro...

Sorry Relativist, I cannot disabuse you because the abuse is self-inflicted. You'll have to take up that task yourself. "Evidence" is a loaded term. W...

Dialectics and the Solidified: I believe, "the solidified" is the opposite to groundless, or bottomless, what is solid, substantive. It appears to me ...

Against Relativism: The substance of his argument against relativism is pretty much confined to one paragraph. It's a little hard for me to understand...

It is you who has made the definitive judgement, that the nonphysical is unknowable.

This is obviously false. Physicalism cannot explain the reality of the nonphysical, which we all experience daily, therefore it is clearly not the mos...

Let's see. You admit that the mind is not 100% physical. Then you state that the nonphysical part "seems unknowable". But instead of trying to get bey...

The man, handsome. The handbag, no comment.

That's exactly why there is discontinuity. The past is given, the future is not. As you say, "the world is not given once and for all", only the past ...

I couldn't resist commenting, after reading the poem about stuckedness. How did you somehow end up in her living room? You might say I was baited. So ...

The horizon of the world does not include possible worlds. The opposite could be true, that possible worlds could include the world. But inversion is ...

Possibilities are determined by minds, and it is commonly recognized that possibilities are distinctly determinations which are NOT IN THE WORLD. The ...

I have no idea how you are using "continuity" here. The possible ends, or goals are clearly not on the horizon of the world, as they are distinctly po...

Isn't this the point which Kant tries to make, that such is reality? But I don't believe "impossible" is the necessary conclusion here. I believe that...

You might be right.

If you don't apprehend "ready-at-hand" to be teleological, when it explicitly relates to purpose, then we probably are at an impasse. But, I'm fine to...

OK this is me, fundamental intense shyness. It didn't develop into anything problematic because I managed to get around it with conscious tricks and d...

But this is clearly not the case. What is measured is a designated quantity, and this is an idea, concept, which is separate from the tool, and whatev...

All forms of measurement are intentional acts. What happens in a measuring device is only a small part of the measuring process, and is not itself an ...

I don't think there is any truth to such a proposition of continuity. Measurement is always based in principles, and carried out as an intentional act...

You see right through me. This is where I have an ingrown difficulty which will probably never be resolved. It seems that the inner me has some tenden...

Anything which includes pi is fundamentally irrational, so I don't know why you would think it to be profound.

The entire apparatus, experiment and all, is designed with very specific intentions. What we know as "quantum phenomena" is completely artificial form...