You don't seem to understand. The objects, billiard balls now instead of clocks, are features of the ether. I've explained this over and over, but you...
Yes, I was talking about the activity of the ether. You introduced to that discussion, "clocks". Now a clock is itself a form of activity, and you ask...
If I understand correctly, you are distinguishing here between the anticipation of sensations, and the sensations themselves. Where I have difficulty ...
Don't you see that as a nonsense (impossible) situation? One clock is moving at a high velocity relative to the other. It is next to the other "moment...
I really don't know what you would mean by "two clocks in the same place". Are the clocks composed of different materials such that one exists within ...
You cannot see that this is an "ought" statement, and is therefore the expression of a judgement? Any time I say "you ought to do..." I am expressing ...
That's right, but until it's understood what they are, a proper absolute inertial frame cannot be produced. And understanding what they are requires a...
Physical objects must be conceived of as part of the ether, properties of the ether, juust like particles are conceived of as property of the fields d...
Right, the symbols simply facilitate understanding of the expression which is the music itself, allowing others to join in the expression. The artist ...
When numerous people use the same principle, it's a convention. So when we learn how to produce art, we are taught in the existing conventions. Do you...
An expression of an ethical principle is an expression of a moral judgement. So, if "honour your mother and father" is an expression of an ethical pri...
There ought to be at least a few Republic Senators who would desire Trump's office. Once they realize that attempting to prop up Trump is a hopeless c...
Sure, but the problem is that it does not actually exist as "pure mind art". The scientists, engineers, and others who use the mathematics force the e...
Well, the so-called "Unmoved Mover" is better translated as "Unmovable", or "Immovable", according to what is explained in BK12 of Aristotle's Metaphy...
It's you who is not understanding; "knowledge is unstable" is very clearly not posited as something stable, because that would imply contradiction. Th...
Suppose we distinguish between "what comes next" in the physical world, meaning what happens in the next moment of time, and "what comes next" when yo...
I don't think I agree with your assumptions about the role which mathematics has. I believe that mathematical principles are always developed for purp...
So the statements "you ought to do...", and "you ought not do...", which are constitutive of ethical principles, are not expressions of moral judgemen...
Now you've gotten into the type of contradiction I warned about. Change requires time, it cannot be timeless. Do you not see the problem with your rep...
It's questionable whether this is a pleasure. We tend to get pleasure from fulfillment of desire. If we seek knowledge, and all we get (what you call ...
Yes we do pass moral judgement on thinking. Take a look at the ten commandments for example, half of them are concerned with thinking; don't take the ...
It's not a matter of what the witnesses deny, they could make truthful testimony, as others have already. it's a matter of what those judging the test...
I think your definition of "moral" is incorrect. Morality is concerned with what is good and bad. And since it extends into judging thinking in this w...
That is what we call truth. This I disagree with. As philosophers we might seek that eternal truth, but when all we find is the deficiencies of human ...
'Will someday be falsified', is not the same as 'has been falsified'. The falsification is what determines the faults, demonstrating the weaknesses of...
The constraints of my language are the fundamental laws of logic, identity, non-contradiction, excluded middle. These are what facilitate discourse. Y...
You missed the point. You still do not seem to see the difference between describing something and measuring something. I said that if you're at the p...
I cannot communicate with someone who doesn't speak my language. My apologies, as I am not inclined to learn yours. It strikes me that you have disreg...
Therefore the dualism of Platonic realism. And symbols represent subjects, so there's a double layer of representation, exactly what Plato warned us a...
This is not a demonstration of algebra. So your example is irrelevant. Refutation complete. What I dispute is that a symbol represents a number which ...
The challenge is open. All you do is assert without any justification. Where is your demonstration of an abstraction existing as an object, which is n...
Yes, you can state that all you want, assert and insist until the cows come home, and then continue to assert some more. The challenge is yours, descr...
Yes, I agree, in mathematics some people make the unsubstantiated claim that the symbols represent existent objects. This is called Platonic realism T...
Using abstractions (concepts) is not the same things as the act of abstraction. To conflate these two is equivocation. To define abstraction as "givin...
OK, I'll assume for the sake of argument that there is a type of existence, "mathematical existence", which is a different type of existence from "ont...
Ontology is the study of existence. Isn't it? How could there be a form of existence which isn't ontological existence? That sounds very contradictory...
The mathematical system being employed premises that a symbol represents an object, and that each time the symbol appears within an expression, like a...
[q The problem with this perspective is that once you've carried out an action, and determined that it was a mistaken action, you cannot simply undo t...
Right, my argument is that there is no such thing as an abstract object represented by "2". I replace this supposed object with something closer to th...
The way I laid it out, I omitted some key points which add complexity, that I will now try to elucidate. As demonstrated by Plato and Aristotle, we de...
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