There's no mystery here, only an invalid conclusion. The point, is that many human minds does not make a "Mind". That's like saying many horses makes ...
Actually, Toronto is a great example of classic Trumpian business practise. Bring in an investor with a big "debt" (for God knows what) to be paid off...
He probably thought that being up north, property would be cheap, just partner up with a Russian investor, and the locals could be bulldozed. You thin...
I'm not arguing anything here, I'm just trying to get some clarification of what you mean. You say things which do not make sense to me. For instance,...
I go with the first option, my dogs have always been much smarter than me. The fact that they do not talk is evidence of this. The barking is intended...
Mysticism is philosophy centred around the mystical experience. I believe that in it's most simple form, the mystical experience is the experience whi...
Sorry Tim, but I just can't understand what you're trying to say here. What do you mean by "the idea itself"? And how does an idea "stand as an idea"?...
In my experience Hegelians generally dismiss this enterprise of relating Hegel's thought to that of the ancients, insisting on Hegel's originality. I ...
We've been through this already, and I referred you to some of the sections. If you still don't get it, pick up the book and read it from beginning to...
Yes I would agree with all that. That Aristotle was not a modern scientist is a rather obvious and trivial point, unless perhaps someone here thought ...
Aristotle was a student of Plato, he was not educated in modern naturalism. And, he clearly refers to the difference between artificial things and nat...
Have you not read Aristotle's On the Soul? He's explicit, sensation is a power (potency) of the soul. Prior to the existence of a thing, is the potent...
The point though, is that it is impossible to conceptualize something which is logically impossible. You can say it "prime matter", but you cannot con...
I mostly agree with what's in those quotes, except this: Aristotle actually distinguishes two primary senses of "form", the form which we grasp, the u...
Plato described matter in Timaeus in sexist terms, coming from ancient myths. It is a passive principle which receives the form, like being impregnate...
It's better to look at matter as the potential for change. The concept of "matter" is introduced by Aristotle as a means for understanding the nature ...
Sure, Aristotle rejected Plato's form of dualism, to introduce one which he thought more reasonable. Rejecting Platonic Forms does not make one monist...
This is doublespeak. Sure, you are "better of" not to be starving at that moment in time, than to be starving at that moment, but If there is someone ...
I look at this as contradictory. An entity is by definition a particular. I find this to be a common problem with modern day philosophers, they define...
I can't see the point of the analogy. Consider a deck of 52 playing cards. You might argue that the 52 parts of the deck are all divided and distinct,...
I think we've made substantial progress towards understanding each other, though it's a slow process. Let me see if I can summarize where we stand. I ...
That's good, few problems is good, many problems is bad. Clearly, "absolute" in standardization is impossible. I don't see that this is a good argumen...
Right, the relationship between property rights, and the NAP as libertarians propose, is logical. I've shown that the premise is false therefore the l...
That's right, that's why I mentioned to Virgo other forms of aggression, aggressive sales and aggressive trading on the market. When we are confronted...
In Aristotle's Physics, the principles of change are matter and form. Form is what is actively changing, and matter is the underlying aspect of a thin...
If you read carefully Aristotle's principal definition of "soul" (Bk2, Ch1) in De Anima, you'll see that the soul is a "form" of a body, the actuality...
I think I've provided you with all that. The formula for the material existence of the particular is necessarily prior in time to the material existen...
Virgo claims to be a cheerleader for the wealthy, but really acts toward removing the rights to ownership with anarchism. That's why I call it decepti...
OK, we can probably all agree that there ought to be a system of property rights, but this doesn't make such a convention magically appear. But the NA...
The point is that Aristotle does not disallow the possibility of form without matter, as he does disallow matter without form. He does not say specifi...
The idea of right-wing anarchism strikes me as rather ridiculous. Since the poor outnumber the rich by a vast majority, how could these people reach a...
Aristotle denies that matter can exist independent of form, but not that form can exist independent of matter. And, when you understand the earlier pa...
Actually, contrary to what you say, if the citizenry are unarmed, and the military is armed, the citizenry will be subdued with very little "damage". ...
That's nonsense. How do you account for the difference between past and future with a definition of time like that? That's exactly right. There must s...
I would think this would be a huge problem for anarchists. With anarchy there would be no single convention on property ownership, so to propose a for...
There's more to life than private property. I have a lot of possessions, and they mean a lot to me. Some I bought, some given to me, some I found, and...
We've come back to the same issue we started with. You disavow the State, which gives a system of property rights, but at the same time you presuppose...
Right, now we have here what you call "an intelligent act". This is an act with a purpose, its purpose is to demonstrate the angles. The cause of such...
You're going around in circles, we've covered this already. The NAP does not presuppose property rights, that is your twisted interpretation. You have...
The problem, Virgo, is that you are taking for granted ownership of property, "that which belongs to oneself" in your definition of aggression. If you...
Your point was the testability of the proposition "water boils at 100 degrees at sea level". You said, we could just take a thermometer and test this....
It's not that simple though. Some days water will boil at 100, and other days not, in the same location, depending on air pressure. And even if you al...
That's the problem libertarians define "aggression" in a way which suits their purpose, not in a way which represents the thing which we refer to as a...
This is clearly false. There is no need for "aggression" to be defined in relation to "rights". You are just making this up in order to subjugate "non...
It is not the declaration of ownership, 'this is mine' which is an act of aggression, it is the declaration of a right to ownership, 'people have the ...
Political philosophy is not my thing, but I just thought I'd bring that up, because anyone who's seriously researched these two principles, ought to h...
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