No. Pi is not itself a length. It is the number that a length is divided, or multiplied by. The length of the diameter is multiplied by 3.14... to giv...
The point I've been trying to make, is that the form in the mind is a different form from the one in the object. You have been insisting that they are...
Pi is not a line, it is the relation between two measurements. As it is an irrational ratio, we can conclude that the two measurements are actually in...
No, you have just made an invalid inference. You claim that if the child has learned how to use the word "cup", this implies that the child has learne...
That does not make sense. If the "individuating notes" are left behind, then the form in the mind is not the same as the form in the object. Necessari...
No. no. this is all wrong. Producing 1d lines in all directions from a point will never make a circle. That's very obvious. A circle requires that the...
If one is to speak in terms of "emergence", then the first order would be to determine what emerges, and what does it emerge from. The different "isms...
It's only a suggestion of how one could try to conceive of matter as a medium, and also as "all there is". However, the problem I described remains, h...
That's nonsense. There is an uncertainty principle which indicates that the measurements are indisputably not factual. That's what the Fourier transfo...
I don't see the problem with matter as medium. All that separates two points, space, time, physical existence, can all be rolled into the concept "mat...
Actually schopenhauer1 is right here. StreetlightX assigns to matter the capacity to act, (behave), and this is what is contrary to the pure concept o...
A rope is a physical medium, within which a wave can travel . A wave can only exist in a medium. It's not particles which beg the question of a medium...
Consider what Wittgenstein demonstrates at the beginning of The Philosophical Investigations. If learning a language consisted of learning rules, then...
QFT doesn't entail wave-particle duality, it assumes it, as a premise. And if your claim is that QFT renders the particle unreal, and the wave as the ...
Oh come on Spam26. There are no such rules to language use. We can use the words however we damn well please, and actually do, that's how languages ev...
I do not believe (1) is true. There is a distinction between "form" in the sense of a thing's essence, and "form" in the sense of what is united with ...
I already explained how QFT is deceptive, and the fact that you think fields are real things is evidence of the deception. What does prediction have t...
This is how the idealist avoids solipsism, by concluding the reality of the medium: First principle: all that is real to me, is within my mind. Second...
I can very easily account for quantum field theory. It is a complex arrangement of mathematical equations established for the purpose of an attempt to...
OK, I agree with that, physicists get many things right. Uh, wait, you're mixing physics with metaphysics here. Any physics ought to be consistent wit...
Thank you Terrapin Station for bringing that to Relativist's attention. And I am such a philosopher. If physics is full of contradictions (as it is) t...
Whether mathematical fields are real and fundamental things is purely metaphysics, it has nothing to do with the theories of physics. You don't seem t...
So what? He's a mathematical Platonist who believes that mathematical objects are real, and nature is made of these. There is no question that fields ...
Such fields are mathematical though, and are not representative of any real physical existence because they represent probabilities, possibilities for...
The key here is in understanding the relationship between material existence, and time. We need to separate the two, such that the activity of physica...
You have defined time as "the measured or measurable". But then you go on to say that time is "the measurement...". Do you not recognize the differenc...
Clearly you are the one making unnecessary assumptions. In ontology we must start with an open mind about existence. You accused me of starting from t...
That's not quite true. The law of identity does not assume the existence of particulars, the existence of particulars follows from the application of ...
If the identity of an object is lost, through the use of relative reference frames, then this is illogical and unacceptable as an ontological principl...
I don't think It's a matter of which beliefs ought to be learned, but a matter of learning to have faith. That's what religion teaches us, to have fai...
Right, I am sympathetic to that position. But this is where faith is essential and necessary, without it we could not proceed with even the most simpl...
Fundamental to an object's identity is it's spatial temporal location, that's what provides its uniqueness, its particularity, its individuality. With...
Do you not read your own quotes? This is from your passage above, from SEP: This directly opposes what you stated above "In OSR, objects are the indiv...
Clearly, we all believe that we are being informed by fact, otherwise we'd each have to be skeptical of all of our knowledge. But we aren't such radic...
Off you go, deeper into contradiction. Instead of realizing that the direction you take is wrong, because it's steeped in contradiction, and turning a...
Again, this is fundamentally illogical, to say that two things cause each other. It is nothing more than an infinite regress of coexistence. When all ...
Ontic structural realism is a philosophy which I am prepared to argue against. So it appears more likely that I'm not the participant for you, than th...
And, the change which does not make a difference "is not really any kind of change". Well, I do philosophy, not physics. As an epistemological princip...
I probably don't need to remind you apokrisis, as I've brought this to your attention numerous times already, but it's blatantly contradictory to say ...
Don't you remember? I rejected Armstrong's framework because it is contradictory. It allows that a single thing is also a plurality of things. That's ...
No, I haven't tied truth to a person's experience, I've tied a person belief that something is true to one's experience. I think there may be a differ...
"Esixtence" is a word. It is assigned to things, we say that they exist. Therefore existence is given. Whenever we say that this or that exists, we gi...
My argument is that Armstrong's, as described by you, is an incoherent form of mereology. Instead of producing an acceptable explanation of the relati...
This is inconsistent with the account you gave. According to that account, what exists, as "objects" are states of affairs. And accordingly, if the sa...
This seems very confused, and unrealistic. A molecular state of affairs would also contain atomic states of affairs. So atomic states of affairs would...
This is where I entered this discussion. The answer to "Why?" here, is not "just cuz". There are many reasons why a premise which is not reliant on an...
I don't really know what you mean by a "pivot", but wouldn't a self-evident premise itself be a pivot? The fundamental laws of logic, identity, non-co...
That's doubtful. So let's take this proposition, that a group is a thing, and see if we can validate it's truth. We have "2", and we claim that it is ...
OK, so we're back to what I said earlier. "Yes, when you define "objective" in that way, such that whatever is objective is necessarily independent fr...
Comments