Metaphysician Undercover

That principle, "use", provides the basis for the difference between prediction and explanation. Prediction is designed for use, in general, it is pra...

Uh huh, and you keep those on twenty four hours a day, seven days a week until there's no more infected people in the world?

Prediction is not explanation at all. People have been predicting that the sun will come up tomorrow, for a very long time now, most of that time with...

Zeno was Greek, and a long time ago. I don't even understand modern Greek. If you want someone to explain it in Zeno's language you'll have to find so...

There is no pause in Achilles' running. That's not part of the scenario. You are just adding things in, making things up, which constitutes a bad inte...

Of course the divisibility of space is relevant, it's stipulated by Zeno in his presentation. If there were no divisions there would be no presentatio...

Who is going to choose the next US president, China or Russia? Sad, but let those two fight it out amongst themselves.

I'm confused now. Who allegedly invented the coronavirus, was it the Chinese or the Russians?

Infinite divisibility is a principle of continuity. I see you haven't really read, or at least have not understood Zeno's paradoxes. Zeno did not say ...

The problem though, is that you've described the universe as a product of the human brain: Now, since my brain is distinct from your brain, and my tho...

Why do you say that this is a mistake? Don't you think that there is a real separation between you and I, and that my thinking is distinct from your t...

It's quite simple. Zeno applies the principles of continuity toward simple observable motions, and shows that the observable motions are impossible, i...

You can look them up on line.

Right, that's exactly the point of Aristotle's demonstrations, the process, (what you call continuous), is incompatible with the result, (what you cal...

Actually Zeno's paradoxes prove that the "continuum" is a faulty idea.

Did you read what I wrote? It's very clearly an infinite regress. The change between X and not-X is described as the state of Y. This requires somethi...

It's characterized by knowing, as Parmenides' truth, whatever is cannot not be, and whatever is not cannot be. This is exactly what is impossible, bei...

What Aristotle demonstrates is that the twofold usage of the word "being" is a category difference, one referring to a material particular, the other ...

Do you see this as a problem? I do. If there is no discipline in the way that things are described, i.e. no logical rules for how things ought to be d...

I am the reader, judgement made.

Making a fool of yourself?

Have you got a point?

Regardless of the evidence which supports the postulate, it's still a postulate.

It's a postulate of Einstein's special theory of relativity, and that's a fact. You're being ridiculous to argue otherwise.

That's irrelevant, we're talking about whether Einstein did or did not postulate that the speed of light is constant regardless of the relative speed ...

That the speed of light is the same, relative to any object, is an Einsteinian postulate. If you read his book "Relativity The Special And The General...

It's actually dogs who believe that their bark is everything.

Eureka! I was enjoying the same feeling yesterday: uncanny agreement with 180 Proof! Sensing a trend?

Einstein's special relativity produces consistency between the premise that all motions are relative, as you describe, and the premise that the veloci...

I think you may need to alter this principle a bit. What is evident, and therefore observationally important, is that the creatures act in a consisten...

Wooo! Let's party! Must be that despicable coronavirus, brings people together.

The pure intuitions of space and time, as the basis for a priori knowledge, are ideals and therefore not consistent with nominalist principles. A post...

I think this is a very important point to understand. As such, metaphysics doesn't tell us what is the case, it tells us what is necessarily not the c...

What can I say? When your interpretation of the work forces you into unconventional definitions of some key terms, like a prior and a posteriori, it's...

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story.

If you refute any of the fundamental propositions of a theory, doesn't that effectively refute the theory?

You're going the wrong direction with "pure reason", you're looking to the top instead of the bottom. The dilemma of moral philosophy, that a person w...

Of course they are rescinded. Where do you get such nonsense?

Come on, you can't be serious? Knowledge is specific, to particular individuals. To say "we have knowledge" is a generalization. But to say that a gro...

Most Trumpists, other than yourself of course, keep to themselves because they know that to publicly support Trump requires blatant lying and a displa...

Potentiality, under the Aristotelian conception, which these people used, is matter. The highest good for Plotinus was the One, and this is a Form wit...

Right, the market was a huge bubble set to burst. The real drop was triggered by Russia's refusal to cooperate with OPEC, Friday March 6, which sent t...

Actually, this is precisely where scientism fails us. It assumes that if a premise or proposition is supported by observation, then it must be true. I...

That's a significant percentage, are you sure it's that high? Many don't even suffer symptoms, and of those, most do not require hospitalization. But ...

Do you think that if 1 in every 5 people in the general population requires hospital care, all at the same time, the hospitals can cope? That is not a...

It's neither sarcasm nor trolling. There's nothing new here. It is business as usual.

The price of gas is down and we can celebrate! There's no sports, we need to celebrate something. In this case we're all winners and we can all celebr...

Don't underestimate the abundance of such cases. Recovery can be long and drawn out, or it can be relatively quick. If a person is on a slow path, not...

You haven't resolved the ambiguity and inconsistency. You have an "impression" or "appearance" which is the effect of a sensible object on the capacit...

Nice rant, commendations. So long as people are lining their pockets with unearned income, all's good. But when the flow stops, a bail out is needed t...