How would the difference between the different ways of being, which are proper to the different kinds of beings, be fundamentally different from the d...
I don't agree that moral values appear to be fixed, not today, nor in Plato's day. The criticism appears to be way off base. I did engage with the act...
Then why did you waste so much of your time discussing this with me? I know enough but the substitution axiom to know that it deals with equality not ...
Judging by the op, I'd say you haven't read The Euthyphro. In it, Plato relates morality to the gods, not to Reason, or to worlds which are identical ...
Are you still unwilling to accept a difference between equality and identity? I thought we agreed to that difference a long time ago. Why would I want...
It seems you haven't read any moral philosophy. Do you recognize a difference between "is" and "ought". "Necessary" in the sense of "cannot not be the...
The point though, is that this is not how "necessary" is used in morality. It is used to indicate what is needed, what ought to be done for some purpo...
All the information I've seen shows that the reflexive axiom and the substitution axiom are equality axioms. Why do you think they that are identity a...
You are not reading "necessary" in the right way. Necessary here means "for the purpose of". And since there is something which makes them necessary, ...
I looked through the Wikipedia page on the syntax of first order logic, which you referred me to above. This is what I think. In the expression "2+2=4...
Well you'll need to justify this claim. I've never seen it stipulated that the "+" is a binary function symbol. Nor have I seen it stated that when a ...
Tend to do what, incite hatred? It's very obvious that everything in that post (truth or falsity being totally irrelevant) was clearly expressed with ...
The modern trend is for a metaphysics of becoming (process) to supplant or uproot the traditional metaphysics of being. There are numerous reasons for...
OK, now we're back to the same problem. In "1+1" each "1" is a term denoting a distinct object. Therefore there are two objects denoted. How does it c...
I think, if the "2" is denoting itself then it is not denoting anything, it is simply a 2. If we say that it is a symbol, and therefore denoting somet...
The damage has been done. Less ozone means more UV radiation (high energy), reaching and warming the earth's surface, energy which would have been abs...
I know you agreed to that, but I could trust you because of propensity toward lying. And, you've continued to argue that "2+2" is the same (in the sen...
I think we're making some progress, and I think this is the heart of the disagreement between us. So maybe we could start with this statement about "s...
The problem with this claim of yours, that two years ago is synonymous with two years before the present, is that it requires a further premise which ...
No you did not show me that. You showed me "ternary relation". You did not show me how one object and the "+" function makes a completely different ob...
Zuhair thinks that mathematics would be so much better, stronger, if instances of "equal to" really meant "identical to", so Zuhair will forever argue...
It fails because you are arguing that the "+" makes "3" and "5" into one object, an object which is the very same as "8", but there is no way to make ...
I can't see how the analogy is relevant. Jesus and James denote distinct objects. The two 2's denote one object. Even if we take "3+5" which clearly d...
Sorry but you've lost my interest, too much lying and too much nonsense.. I explained the problems with this position. If the numeral 2 always denotes...
It's sad that I have to tell you this, but this is false. Success only supports the trials of trial and error. And the scientific method is a bit more...
A method is a way of proceeding in activities. It may be supported by a system of guidelines, rules or something like that. That a specified activity ...
OK, but metaphysics is a necessary support for any epistemology, and even the claim that it is not necessary is itself metaphysics. So any "critical m...
We do not conceptualize change as past, present and future, we conceptualize it as before and after. And, this before and after may be conceptualized ...
No, I didn't miss it, we went through it already, your first premise is false: The law of identity states that a thing is the same as itself, not that...
The issue, as I explained to 180 is that the understanding of past present and future does not produce any understanding of temporal movement. There i...
It wasn't prominent though. Socrates, and Plato, were two people who expressed dissatisfaction with the sophistry which was prominent at the time. Ari...
We went through this. You provided no such proof, it was just an assertion. Why the change? We were talking about objects, now you switch to symbols. ...
It hasn't been forgotten, because the books are plentiful and many read them. Some people though, do not, and therefore do not learn platonic metaphys...
What I was trying to show is that the difference is ontological. But we have to approach a demonstration of ontology with epistemic principles in orde...
But don't you agree that the determinacy of the future is distinct from the determinacy of the past, being grounded or justified in a different way? D...
And, of course, this re-formalizing is a logical fallacy, equivocation, as I've demonstrated. What is on the right side of the equation is not the sam...
That's right there is a fundamental continuity, expressed in a very simply form as Newton's first law, inertia, which makes future events somewhat det...
Obviously this cannot be done validly, because "=" does not always mean "same", something you refuse to acknowledge, for some strange reason. Sure, yo...
Only specific mathematical systems are based in first order logic, perhaps ZFC is one of them. Now, the question is where does ZFC derive its meaning ...
Your site provides the terminology of first order logic, not mathematics. The use of "=" is not the same in first order logic as it is in math. To equ...
Do you see the "choice", as an actuality which is distinct from both the voltage and amperage? If the voltage is potential, it could sit there forever...
I don't think Entropy provides us with a principle to distinguish between future and past. It may distinguish between before and after, but this is in...
This is our point of disagreement. The law of identity does not say this, you are claiming this. If there is a law in mathematics which states that ea...
I think you are twisting the distinction between actual and potential. Do you accept this division? If so, do you see that it is necessary for a cause...
Right, and I've explained how what is denoted by '2+2' is different from what is denoted by '4'. Principally, '2+2' denotes two units of two whereas '...
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