Well, I strongly believe that reasoning through anything is an awful lot of work. And if the world is deterministic, it's obviously unnecessary work. ...
I wouldn't call this "scientific". To be science requires convincing experimental evidence. I can't see how this is relevant. I'm going to die, theref...
Let's consider "pixels". You say that there are pixels which have spatial relations between them. But a pixel, which is normally thought of as a funda...
Of course, but the question is how. Do they consist of matter, or do they exist in some other way? Sure, but if I have no choice as to whether or not ...
But the issue is, how do these things, words in this example, exist in that medium between you and me? Is the concept of "matter" required to explain ...
This is the inevitable conclusion when we take the reality of free will, final cause, to its extreme. To allow the reality of choice, we must allow fo...
In the newly emerging physics, Newton had done something very interesting with his first law of motion, commonly known as the law of inertia. What New...
I don't buy this. He says that it disappears into experience. So the best we can say is that it becomes a part of experience. As such, you would think...
I take Berkeley to be arguing that we can do without the concept of matter. We can have a sufficient understanding of the external word, without the c...
As I said, the the evidence is experiential. Not long ago atoms were the smallest particles. Quarks have not actually been produced in isolation, beca...
You mean the claim of infinite regress? The evidence is experiential. Every proposed fundamental particle has been broken down into further particles ...
Science provides no guidance on this. It is a metaphysical question. The fundamental matter/energy assumption falls to infinite regress in scientific ...
I think we need to assume Adorno was attempting to be consistent, and not ambiguous or equivocal. So I see the difference as a matter of perspective. ...
I don't think it is the case that science depends on the "assumption of a reality that is what it is, independent of us". I believe that idea is a mis...
Well, I think you're grasping at straws Pussycat. Invisible straws at that! There is clearly no reason whatsoever, to interpret this as "the roast eat...
I don't think it's a matter of seeing that there is a right way and a wrong way of describing things. I think it's a matter of understanding the way t...
Yes, at the beginning of that little section, Adorno specifically mentions "the subjective share of intellectual experience". There's a number of inte...
Well perhaps, but I do not see any mention of "danger" or "temptation". Nor do I see that the retreat is "resisted". I see that it is a special reacti...
It's not a matter of intuition giving us an accurate picture of reality. That's not what I have been arguing. I have been arguing that the picture giv...
I don't think that this is the case for Adorno. He clearly distinguishes between the object, and the subject along with theory, and concepts, which ar...
This is not really the case. In most instances the goal is to create what happens next, i.e. we want to shape the future, not predict it. The ability ...
This I see as self-contradicting. "Correlates" implies a duality, so "the reduction of objects to correlates of thought", is inherently incompatible w...
Here's the problem. You describe the unity of the five senses as the faculty of experience, defined as "being able to experience". And, you attribute ...
The argument for Platonic realism, is that ideas have existence independent from human minds, as "objects". This is produced from the assumption that ...
As I said, you have presuppositions which make no sense. How do you propose that the senses are united into a single faculty called "experience", or "...
Not really, Idealism involves a belief that concepts are objects, but not all objects are concepts. So that is not the identity relation referred to b...
Clearly then, you misunderstand me. Experience is not a faculty. And, we are born with knowledge, it's known as intuition. This is why you can't under...
I don't think anyone believes that objects are identical to concepts. I think the idea is more that concepts identify objects in a sort of relation of...
At least I recognize that there is a problem, and I'm acting toward resolution. That's a lot better than you, doing nothing, thinking that everything'...
The grounding of reason is necessarily something outside the bounds of reason. This makes it unreasonable or even irrational. The grounding feature, t...
That looks very naive to me. If reality includes more than just what exists, then this part of reality is not part of the universe. How would we estab...
Well sure, but my point is that the thing referred to here as "it" is a fiction. Therefore all that evidence does nothing for you. It's like pointing ...
Consistency doesn't imply truth. We can make very consistent fictions. And even when the story is consistent with empirical sensations, truth is not n...
No apology required, I wasn't annoyed at all. How did you get that idea? I was just alluding to lesson #1 in reply to the request you made: First less...
Actually, I just looked up the official formula, and you add the number of chirps per minutes to 40, before dividing by 4. So, put your winter coat on...
Count the number of times a cricket chirps in a minute, divide by 4, and add 40 to determine the temperature in Fahrenheit. That's a soap opera law of...
Here's the difference between you and I then. You won't go anywhere unless someone, who has already been there, points the way to you, (and gives you ...
It's not a matter of changing what we know about the universe, it's a matter of "the universe" being a false conception. There is no such thing. For a...
What I said is that the concept "universe" is a misrepresentation of reality. There is much evidence to support this claim, things like spatial expans...
According to the concept "universe", there was a universe prior to observers. But many aspects of that concept indicate to us that it is a misrepresen...
Nothing beats "Dogs", the best song on the album. Be sure to get stoned and listen with phones. Dragged down by the stone! And when you lose control, ...
Comments