Metaphysician Undercover

The op is messed up. You cannot identify the property of redness with the set of all red thing. The supposed conclusion would actually be inconclusive...

No, rutabaga is a different plant, from the pictured turnips

Turnips, Purple Tops.

Don't say this to me. I firmly believe that an independent reality would be completely different from, and not at all similar, to the representations ...

Why do you say that? It was your claim, not mine. You said that the verb "is" expresses a "state of existence". There is no need to assume any "instan...

I think that's one of the best examples of a straw man that I've ever seen. The extendedness of objects is just another concept which you've swapped f...

A static state of existence, even if temporary, is very distinct from an activity. In no way is a static state a part of an activity, as there is a ca...

But there is not space between objects, only more objects, that's why you said you do not perceive empty space. Suppose one object here, and another o...

I don't think so. We don't perceive space between objects, we perceive separation. And knowledge tells us that there is another, invisible object, air...

Are you saying "is on the table" is an activity? In predication the verb "is" does not express an activity.

This place is full of fucking stalkers.

This is what I see as the greatest difference between Kant and Plato. Unlike Kant, Plato allows that the human intellect can have direct access to wha...

The problem, is that science demonstrates to us, that at the very small scale, quantum particles, and at the very large scale, spatial expansion, our ...

By any chance, are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Excuse me now, I'm off to seek the sacred soma, perhaps the very foundation of civilization. It's a difficult journey to make, because the stories are...

Sure, i see a lot of things weighed in kilograms, but never matter. As I said, I've never heard of anyone trying to measure something called matter. I...

Check this out, from your linked article: "Fermentation occurs naturally over 15 to 50 years, originally rendering the product very expensive and only...

There is a large variety of things which we measure, and each has a name. There is also a variety of different types of measurements. I've never heard...

Don't be hasty in this declaration. Mead is probably one of the oldest human inventions, dating back before the invention of corn, and maybe even as f...

I get your point, and your quotes support it. But I don't see things the same way, being more skeptical, or even cynical. Metaphor is an intentional '...

I think this is a very important point. "Noumena" for Kant is analogous to "matter" for Aristotle. They are strictly conceptual, not referring to any ...

As I told you "=" does not mean "is". Therefore your proposed analogy is false. We are not saying 2+3 is 5, we are saying that they are equivalent, an...

Are you saying that the determinist perspective denies Newtons laws? Or, is it the case that "endogenous causes of action" are simply represented as i...

This is not necessarily the case. That is simply how we represent what is named as "potential", as something built into the actual. This is because ou...

I don't know, those percentages add up to a lot more than 100. Typical AI, it likes to streeeeetch the truth.

I don't think so. "2+3" has its meaning, and "5" has its meaning. The two are distinct. The left side of an equation always means something different ...

Are you familiar with the concept of "potential"? In Aristotelian philosophy "potential" names a category which is required to describe becoming, chan...

Status quo for Janus, the standard reply. When the discussion extends beyond the tight boundaries of Janus' preconceived conceptual enclosure, Janus r...

Energy is taken to be equivalent to mass, and mass is taken to be the fundamental, essential property of matter. There is a difference, because it is ...

The Vertiginous: This section appears to describe an approach to truth. Vertiginous is distinguished from bottomlessness. And truth is vertiginous, (m...

Sorry RussellA, but I'm not able to follow you. The concept of nothing is quite a bit different from the concept of zero. Sure you could use "zero" to...

I really don't understand what you mean by "about the sense of things in the world". It seems to me that this is just a convoluted, ambiguous phrase, ...

Your conclusion doesn't follow. If I list off three item types which are said to be classified as the further type, class A, and you agree that item t...

That conclusion is drawn from the unstated premise that "things" by your usage exist only in a spatiotemporal world. However, we are talking about imm...

Yes, I told you, "order" itself. It is value not restricted by spatiotemporal context. It provides the foundation for mathematics upon which spatial t...

In other words, "force" is purely conceptual. It is only one of a number of conceptions which can be applied toward representing the effects of gravit...

Differentiation need not be spatial nor temporal. We have differentiation of meaning, intention and value. This is the basis of "order", "hierarchy", ...

There is more than one thing involved in that formula which you call "gravitational force". There is space and time. The formula must be understood as...

You are still not getting the distinction I explained to you. What causes the stone to fall is gravity. "Force" is not an independent thing in the wor...

I think that our concept of "the universe" is a useful fiction.

That's how it was meant, amusement. However, we must be careful with our use of such, because making fun of another is a form of amusement which is me...

All right then, let's start from this premise. If a human observer cannot know the future, but can know the past, this implies a real difference betwe...

How is "several possible futures" consistent with determinism? If determinism is the case, then the future has alredy been determined, as well as the ...

If we're getting analytical, then we need egg size to fill out data charts.

Chickens are extremely light sensitive, and maximum egg production depends on extended hours of light. The one in the picture, "Barred Rock", sometime...

My mistake, thanks Wayfarer. I think i was half asleep when I wrote that, glad you're checking. But we still have the issue of self-caused acceleratio...

Your replies are indicating that you do not understand what I write. They are not indicating that you do not agree with me. You say things like "that ...

You can say this, as many do. But the point I made is that nominalism provides no ontology to substantiate the existence of particulars. Particulars a...

Well of course, a belief is not evidence of the thing believed. And so, by extension, even if everyone believes in something this ought not be conside...

I can very easily conceive of something being real without existing somewhere at some time, or everywhere at all times. However, if explained to you, ...