Metaphysician Undercover

You can start with an assumption like this, but it is really necessary to clarify what you mean by "thing". We might remove the notion of "thing" alto...

The point is that "usefulness" as a principle to base judgement on, is misleading. The existence of "bad habits" demonstrates this fact.

What are you arguing, that scientists tend to believe bad metaphysics?

Science and metaphysics are distinct. Do you understand that? It appears like you are saying that most scientists have bad metaphysics. That's not sur...

What happened is that we got to the difficult part. Not necessarily difficult to understand, but difficult to accept the reality of what was to be exp...

Understand now?

No I don't think science can advance without speculation, but I don't think speculation is science, it's more like metaphysics.

Whatever number the field is assigned, as a value for energy, is irrelevant to the fact that the field which is assigned that value, must be something...

Right, it's speculation, not science.

I think you're confusing "scientific" with "scientism".

That's false, there's nothing scientific about it at all. If it were scientific you could show me the process.

As I said, it doesn't make sense to speak of that as nothing. And, it isn't bright scientists who speak of it as nothing, they speak in terms of field...

To say that life came from dead matter is not scientific at all, because it is not supported by any empirical evidence. It's just an illogical specula...

If there are quantum fluctuations in a vacuum, then very clearly that vacuum is not "nothing".

I don't think it's possible to go from no life to life, that's what I've been saying. Therefore life must be first, and the fact that some people thin...

I don't think anything ever comes from nothing. Isn't that a fundamental truth?

Life didn't "come alive". That implies that there was a time when life was not alive, prior to coming alive, and that's contradictory.

It refutes your claim that life evolved out of dead matter.

I think this second truth negates your first truth as contradictory to it. If there is a multiplicity of things existing then they exist in relations ...

Brute fact: living things die, dead things do not come alive.

From my perspective, ZFC has unsound axioms concerning the nature of objects, as we discussed earlier. Therefore any proof using ZFC is unsound. But y...

Check the section called "Learning Centre".

As I said, that I use fingers and toes for certain purposes doesn't mean that this is the reason why I have them. You are confusing the purpose of the...

Looking at the way I use some parts of my body doesn't necessarily tell me why I have those parts.

How could nipples define us sexually when both men and women have nipples? I don't know why I have nipples, nor do I know why I have fingers or toes.

I don't see how that's relevant, you might as well be asking why males and females both have mouths and noses. If you want to start with something rea...

Show me a human body which is both male and female, and I will argue that it is neither. Let the vastness of my ignorance overwhelm you!

Yes there clearly is a third possibility, it's not a case of either Cantor is right, or the op is right, because both Cantor and the op might be wrong...

Of course the possibility of mistake still exists, and if "resolution" requires removing that possibility, it would remain unresolved. But that's why ...

Relax, give the man some time.

Actually, there is a third possibility, as I said, and that is that both Cantor and the op are wrong. This raises the probability that the mathematici...

50/50.

Actually, if two proofs prove contradictory things, then there is a problem with one or both of the proofs. To say I understand one, but not the other...

I didn't say that cooperation isn't real. I said the belief that each one of us is a part of a larger whole is not a true belief. What there is no evi...

Don't underestimate the disdain for government in the USA. This goes way back to the government's anti-communist practises, Kent State shootings, and ...

There is a type of selfishness involved here. It's very difficult for some of us to understand this form of selfishness, and to do so requires that we...

There is a problem with pragmatics though, which I explained in the prior post. Utility is judge in relation to the end, as the means to that end. And...

It still requires will power. It may take a long time to convince people that a particular habit is bad, but once it is recognized as bad, without the...

I agree in principle, but I think resolving that type of issue is far more complicated in practise. The way that we do something, including the way th...

The problem is that these axioms are saying things about a Platonic realm of infinite objects, so it's not easy to determine whether they are misleadi...

Do you believe that there is a difference between past and future? If you belief in a real difference between past and future, how can you make that c...

You take theory B, and add some unsound premises and voila, theory A. Everything in B is provable in A, and even more is provable in A due to the addi...

I don't understand why you call these theories, which are not based in sound premises "stronger theories". They are clearly weaker. The problem though...

I don't think this is true. Wittgenstein seeks objective certainty in On Certainty, but is incapable of finding it. He clearly does not ever demonstra...

Take it to The Lounge. Maybe you'll find some sympathy. Or you might just bore everyone to sleep.

If it doesn't make sense in relation to the real world, then it cannot be a true premise. Therefore the proofs which are derived are unsound. This is ...

Here's the issue I have with this position. Let's assume that numbers are measures applied to finite objects. Prior to application, we need a rule, or...

Hi Zuhair, I'm having a little difficulty understanding some parts of your post, but I'll provide my interpretation with some criticism, and you can t...

Banno seemed to think that a system could exist without balance, so I thought it might be a good idea to clear up this misunderstanding. You chose to ...

Let me get this straight. You come here directing talk about open and closed systems in my direction, and now you say that you have no interest in und...