If "freedom is the condition the will takes place under", then why is "free will" a misnomer? For example, lets say that "flow" is the condition a riv...
Lots of gas in me! Actually gas is dissolved in liquids, and can be locked up in solids, so there is a lot of gas in a living being. You already named...
The problem here is that the charting technique puts time as distinct from all three dimensions of space. So if dimensionality is defined by spatial e...
This concept of free will requires a particular understanding of the nature of time and change. We see that time passes, and as time passes, time whic...
Right, the faulty definition of "deterministic", which you added is the premise required. It's a false premise though because it's not an acceptable d...
Good, but you're still not making the distinction which I asked you to make, between the thing, the tool, (knowledge in this case), and the activity w...
What do you mean by "deeply invested"? Again, I think I need to stress the difference between knowledge, and mental activity. Do you agree that mental...
That's not true. When you predict that something will happen, and it does, this does not mean that the thing is deterministic. This conclusion would r...
And what do you think lead to that move? Metaphysics. This would only be the case if you restrict the act of knowing, in the manner that you have prop...
The existence of free will demonstrates that the universe, as we know it, is not a deterministic system, nor closed system. To say that there are mult...
"Irrational" refers to an incommensurable ratio. This means that the two things being related to each other cannot be measured by the same system of m...
That we come to the same conclusion from different approaches is good support for the conclusion. It isn't though, because the car breaks down when yo...
When the two sides of a right angle are of equal length, the hypotenuse is irrational. Therefore the Pythagorean theorem as a first principle of geome...
That's right, there is no such thing as a completely deterministic system. That's a fantasy. There is a very real problem with this assumption, and th...
Remember, with time the boundaries of the fixed system will break down. Keep rolling the dice and after a while you won't be able to tell which side i...
How about "Jesus was a human being"? This allows us to deny 2), and it's more truthful. But what is Jesus now? I think that's a more interesting quest...
Of course, that's the nature of knowledge. Proceeding from the first principle has a similar problem,. There's no infinite regress, just some degree o...
Sure, just like any artificial thing is real. What? Scientific results are not artificial? Artificial means produced by human beings. Are you suggesti...
That's contradiction, "first" means first, the possibility of infinite regress is therefore excluded. Metaphysics does not operate on an axiomatic sys...
A coin is something natural? What happened to you claim that "randomness can only be spoken of in relation to a fixed system"? A "fixed system" is an ...
This is important, randomness is only a property of an artificial system. It is something created. The randomness in QM and other microsystems, discus...
The stupidity is in the method, making it publicly known that I want to buy Greenland, instead of discussing this possibility with those who currently...
But metaphysics is reasoning toward first principles, not reasoning from first principles. Here is evidence of your mistake. Morality, in the sense of...
I didn't equate leisure with freedom, that's another example of your misunderstanding. What I implied is that one must have leisure in order to act fr...
This is randomly composed nonsense. The observed passage of cause and effect refers to the past only. That is the point of the op, empirical knowledge...
But you still have not provide a coherent definition of absolute rest. As I explained earlier, there could be something which everything else is in mo...
Actually, I think that this is where the misunderstanding lies, not in the conditions of "social contract", but in the misunderstanding of "individual...
There is a difference between being still to avoid being preyed upon, and being still in order to prey, but neither involves an inactive mind. Both, I...
Materialism conceives of the world strictly in terms of material objects. The problem which this comes up against is that we see that all material obj...
I don't really think it's known by intuition, I used intuition as an example of knowledge without measurement. If it's intuition, then what type of kn...
I can't agree with this charles. If when paying attention, human consciousness experiences these things, and it is only human consciousness which prod...
Actually that's what I'm asking, the means by which we'd establish what really is. So it would be kind of silly to include a proposal of that within t...
You have one sort of attitude toward some events, and a completely different sort of attitude toward other events, and you classify two types of event...
I think that if we say there is a difference between past and future, this necessarily gives ontological priority to the present. Don't you? Wouldn't ...
I would say that's contradictory. One cannot be oriented towards two opposing things, that's like saying you're oriented toward the east and toward th...
That's what we were discussing in the other thread. Yes, but these terms are very general and vague, they can be interpreted in so many different ways...
If I understand you then, you think that we have a particular orientation, and this orientation justifies the claim that there is a difference between...
I don't think empirical knowledge can justify the claim of a difference between past and future, for the reasons outlined in the op. We experience nei...
Yes there is something wrong with the argument, you haven't defined "absolute rest". Does absolute rest mean that nothing is in motion, as would be th...
The issue is not a matter of my capacity with the English language. It is a matter of your inability to explain what you mean with terms like "Mind", ...
Now, Aristotle demonstrated that the Ideas of Pythagorean idealism (the Forms of Platonic realism), cannot be eternal. But that does not force the con...
It is a particular, but it's prior to and therefore separate from material particulars. It is better understood as a Neo-Platonic Form, because Plato ...
Don't try to turn the table, you are the one making the illegitimate reification, talking about this Mind, as if it is a real thing. If it's not a rea...
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