That is precisely the issue. To have meaning is not the same as to have a definition. There are some members here at tpf who would restrict the meanin...
The deficiency in the thesis is that co-operation is not opposed to evil. That's what I tried to bring out in my post, evil people may co-operate, and...
Co-operative evil, i.e. conspiracy, has a much worse effect than non-co-operative, you might say it is a greater evil. So as the evil-doers become mor...
But if you think of "meaning" in this way, as something which is attributed to words, you would have to accept that we can use words without knowing t...
No I don't think that this is the case, because a proposition is a type of statement, and one can hold an assumption without stating it. But I don't t...
There is an undisclosed assumption here which disguises the real issue. The assumption is that there is a real, undisputable, boundary or principle, s...
If Kornelius changes the meaning of "same" from how it is properly expressed in the law of identity, to prove that the law of identity is logically va...
The problem is that the formulation of the law of identity, which Kornelius used in the proof that the law of identity is a valid logical conclusion, ...
Clearly, agency is warranted, as there is purposeful action, and you've regressed back to your gratuitous assertions.. If you think that the activity ...
If our understanding of time, and the universe, are open to revision, then how is it inappropriate to question the age of the universe? Unless we ques...
The point I was making, is that the logical conclusion is only as good as the premises. But it may be as you say, that people believe that logical dec...
Isn't it obvious? Not one of the three fundamental laws of logic is a valid logical conclusion. For example, suppose there are rules which must be fol...
The goal of that activity, which is commonly called DNA replication, is to produce two sets of DNA from one. Is that not obvious to you? There is acti...
Right, I see your reference supports my description very well. The introduction provides an almost exact rendition of what I said:. Notice, the "very ...
I think that what is the case is that we tend to take this skill, the skill of determining the truth, for granted. When we take it for granted, we bel...
Until you say what you think "agency" is, then your use of the term in any argument is not warranted. I said what agency is, and distinguished two for...
What seduces us is the logic itself, as well as the premises. We tend to think that if it's logical then it's true. But we forget about checking the p...
The appeal to logic is an extremely useful advertising tool, far more effective than the appeal to emotions and sentiments, because logic is more univ...
The point being, if you propose that there is a special sort of thing, called "agency", which only beings with complex thought/belief have, i.e. that ...
Yes, many premises are assumptions. And since you have yet to provide any support for that premise, it appears I am most likely correct in calling it ...
You're right, it doesn't make the description wrong. But a description which doesn't help us to understand the thing being described is generally not ...
That's a vicious circle. If one truly has a desire to understand acts, and the causes of acts, which is integral to philosophy, then one would very qu...
How does "looping" provide the illusion of free will? For that matter, how is free will any more of an illusion than any supposed relationship that an...
I'm still waiting for the argument to demonstrate that this claim, "agency requires complex thought/belief", is a conclusion rather than a gratuitous ...
This is false, there is agency in inanimate activity. It appears like you are attempting to create an unwarranted boundary between the "agency" of com...
The claim I objected to was this: Show me your argument to support the claim that agency is not warranted in DNA replication. Something is establishin...
That is an important point. We produce the idea of a world, a universe, the world existing for a year, ten years, a thousand years, a billion years, e...
I agree with Harry. To create a controversy is one of the oldest publicity tricks in the book. And, since the negative feedback was from an insider, t...
What people do is activities. There is meaning in activities, but actions are not meaning. I don't believe that you believe this. I'm sure you must se...
As I said, if you plan to argue that there is no agent involved in the correlation between replicated DNA, I think you have a very silly argument on y...
The example was set by the present day American president, except the polls were being watched rather than the stock market (not much difference there...
The issue is "meaning". I think there is far more meaning in two extremely complex things like DNA which happen to match, than there is in the correla...
That's the point, the law of identity is a metaphysical assumption, so of course it's not logically valid. No, the law of identity is not held as a la...
There was a civil war (whatever that means), and there were reasons for that war. The flag is a symbol of the political state, and there are many degr...
Argument? If you do not believe that there's a correlation between the two distinct instances of DNA, when DNA replicates, then just say so. But I thi...
The word "fascism" is actually derived from that Latin bundle word, "fasces", as is "fascine" which is a type of faggot. But the English, "fasten", is...
Do you not recognize the difference between "a thing", and "all things"? The law of identity states that a thing is the same as itself. What justifies...
When DNA replicates, it's quite clear that something is making a correlation between distinct things. If there was no correlation, it would not be a r...
What are you saying, that information is meaning with causal power? But you wanted to remove agency, that's what I objected to. Meaning cannot be caus...
You haven't justified your assumption of a "whole". Just because things interact doesn't mean that there is a whole. You proceed from the observation ...
Actually, in relation to "the eternal", what Aristotle argued is that anything eternal must be actual. So the infinite is argued to be potential, and ...
The law of identity states that a thing is the same as itself. That is our point of disagreement. My claim is that the law of identity is not a law of...
At this point, we need to recognize and respect the difference between learning an order (memorizing it), and applying a principle to create an order ...
This definition of "information" just begs the question. Certainty is subjective (of the subject), so a change to the degree of certainty, "informatio...
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