The op lacks any real philosophy. It states a personal opinion. The replies are bound to be opinions about the person, because the person stated somet...
In other words, by using PM it's easier to avoid the masses who disagree with you, allowing you to escape into a fabricated world of illusion, with a ...
Well, we still have the unpredictability of human actions to account for. You can interpret unpredictability as a form of predictability if that makes...
It is evidence that the nuclear facilities are not as significant as claimed, kind of like Saddam's WMD. If you bomb the facility before it's a danger...
Not according to the pop-up headlines I get on the internet. Every day there's new discoveries which defy science. Furthermore, there's a whole range ...
Parts are what a material object is composed of. I don't think it makes any sense to talk of the parts of an immaterial form. Neither does your argume...
The interpretation I offered above is quite convoluted, and you may not understand it properly, but it is very consistent with yours. So here's a sort...
"Perfectly drunk" might be the same as "fairly drunk", I don't know. I saw a pop up article where some scientist was arguing that one drink per year i...
That would be the form. But form is complex (not in the sense of having material parts though), and not simple. If you do not accept the categorical d...
I see this as the key point to the section. And, there are two key words to Adorno's description of this, which I am trying to get a handle on. The wo...
That's a faulty conclusion. All we need to do is accept that form is categorically different from matter, therefore formal causes are categorically di...
OK, but there is a little trick at play here. If we define "dialectics" as founded by Hegel, then anything which qualifies for the criteria of being n...
Google tells me (and Google is way more smarter than AI), (oops it was Google AI), that approximately 150,000 people die every day. Instead of multipl...
I wouldn't say that he's arguing against "dialectics" in the complete range of possible uses of this word, rather he is arguing against "dialectics" i...
From my so far, brief introduction to Adorno, I have some difficulty accepting what you say here. I think that in his theory of negative dialectics he...
He's not talking about being dominated by the system, he is talking about those who are "most conditioned", and therefore have it at their disposal. H...
What I deny is your premise, that God is absolutely simple. This mistake I attribute to Neo-Platonists who wanted to make God "the One". Christian the...
Clearly he is noy referring to those dominated by it, but those who dominate it, having it "at their disposal", as "their own". He says: "The system i...
What would those real temporal parameters consist of? If you think about it, they are all reducible to relative positions. So your starting point, t1,...
Thanks for that quite explicit and exquisite interpretation of a very short section. I think this section will be pivotal in guiding us toward an unde...
As I explain, that duration is arbitrary, because C and D are arbitrary points in time. You assume moments in time, but there are no real moments. The...
I think you're missing the point. It's not an issue of whether distance can escape from time. It obviously cannot, as things move therefore distances ...
Despite the fact that substance is the individual, which is a composite of matter and form, when you read his Metaphysics, you'll find that Aristotle ...
The spatial measurement is not arbitrary because it must be determined relative to two empirical boundaries, as the distance between them, although th...
Or, maybe Hanny fucked with my head, making me think that a clever mistake is nothing other than a Witty hypocrisy. Watch some NHL playoffs, and you'l...
Your example doesn't show that, because "1.2 metres" requires two boundaries which are determined empirically, and "75 seconds" is designated arbitrar...
Oh Mr. Knowledge of Witty Inventions, tell me how "cut loose like a deuce" is converted into "wrapped up like a douche", and this turns a boring song ...
Conservation principles, like the conservation of mass, and the conservation of energy, are ideals which are put to use in practice. However, in reali...
Such an infinite regress is incoherent and therefore logically impossible. We are talking about hylomorphism aren't we? The form of a thing is distinc...
I don't think these two are similar at all. When we look at things in space, we see all sorts of boundaries, the edges to objects, etc., but we do not...
Why doesn't the guy just jump on an iceberg, with a parasol and a cooler full of beer, and take the free cruise? You can buy bottled water produced fr...
There is a further problem involved, if we assume that time itself cannot be reduced to a moment. There is then the question of what exactly is a mome...
Aristotle showed how this is problematic. Each part, if it was divisible, would itself be an arrangement of parts, and that would lead to infinite reg...
When you look at a tree, do you not see the leaves moving in the breeze? When you look at a mountain, do you not see clouds moving? These activities a...
What does this mean, "it exposes it to having potentials that could be actualized"? How are you using "expose" here? What would be the difference betw...
That's a big word, or two. It sounds more like a heart condition than hyperthyroidism. But a quick google search tells me that the symptoms can be sim...
From experience, the medication for hyperthyroid works pretty well for a while, but you have to keep retesting her every six months or so, and upping ...
As I said, it's basically the same way that you can know anything about the environment which you live in. You can be an extreme skeptic, and deny tha...
This isn't really true, if it is what is called an essential part. This means that it is a necessary part, I think it has to do with what I said about...
I think the answer here is to look at the process rather than the concepts themselves, or even the supposed relations between concepts and objects. If...
I would answer "yes" to some , "no" to others, so I don't see the relevance. You are repeating the same basic mistake. You have an experience, within ...
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