There is something called the Pauli exclusion principle which I think distinguishes electron A from electron B. I believe it is based in a combination...
I think that the notion of immortality is derived from the idea of being at the present. If one could truly exist at the present then that person woul...
To see what, to smell what? There is no objectivity here, just a general principle produced by inductive reasoning. The eyes sees things therefore it'...
I think that to dissolve identification, to "disidentificate", it is necessary to acknowledge the dual nature of identity, one way or another. When yo...
But it seams to me, that what is being described is self-identity. How could it be possible to detach oneself from self-identity in general, by giving...
The identity which the others give you is your past. They've known you, and hand you your identity based on what they know about your past The identit...
Wouldn't that just be assigning yourself an identity though? How could you detach yourself from this "ideal identity" you've assigned to yourself, wit...
So which identity is it that you are seeking detachment from, the identity you have assigned to yourself, or the identity which others have assigned t...
My question would be what is identity in the sense being used here, as one's personal identity? Is your identity what others assign to you? In this ca...
To tell you the truth, I've been reading this thread, and haven't yet figured out exactly what disidentification is. Maybe it involves recognizing tha...
If good is associated with purpose, how can there be an objective good? Good would be determined relative to one's intention, and intentions vary. You...
The present is a division between the future and the past. There is no "present moment" because by the time you say "now" it is in the past. So what w...
I don't think so. To show that something has not been proven false does not verify that thing, it only verifies that the thing has not been proven fal...
I am a musician as well, but I do many other things, and I know that being focused on what one is doing means being focused on the future, even if tha...
You're only contradicting yourself. You say that meaning is the understanding and interpretation of utterances. But clearly this is what goes on in th...
Do you have control over the passing of time? If not, the future is oppressing you. Some level of control over what you do does not exclude the possib...
This is where we disagree. There is a disconnect, a gap of incompatibility between "goodness is judged according to purpose", and "goodness is judged ...
I wouldn't say that it is so easy to make such a division of kinds of thought. There are different ways of being "fully present", and maybe some ought...
We're not talking about meaning, we're talking about the understanding of, and interpretation of meaning. To understand, and to interpret are things w...
OK, now that we've settled that we can stop thinking about it. But here's the problem. Not only is suffering made of thought, but so is happiness. Con...
How does conversation show that we share an understanding? Talking about the same things is a far cry from sharing an understanding. I don't see how b...
[ Yes, in order to be true a proposition must be understood. Under your definition of "proposition" though, a proposition must have a special type of ...
Verification: the processor instance of establishing the truth or validity of something. The question is whether something can be true without this ve...
See, my position avoids the problems of yours (the need for a true interpretation), and the problems of Janus' as well (the disrespected distinction b...
When this occurs, that the argument is valid, but the conclusion unreasonable, then we must verify the premises. This is how we may test premises. If ...
If that is not your position, then can you explain to me the principles whereby you class an act as either physical or intentional. That's what I'm tr...
The mistake is in referring to the one which is better than the other, (the circles for example), in terms of quantity, "the maximum". The "best" is t...
If this is your opinion, then you're completely missing the point of my "case". We both see that physicalism has errors. Perhaps though, we do not see...
I think willpower is completely based in hope. Hope is what drives ambition and ambition is what feeds willpower. Without hope there is nothing to sup...
I think the issue here is that you have identified something as "a sentence that does not exist". So "x" signifies this thing which you call by that n...
You seem to have confused "number" with "numeral". There's a difference between these two, and that's why there are two distinct words with two distin...
The question is, whether an "abstract entity" qualifies as an entity to which the law of identity is applicable. The abstract entity is a class of thi...
No, I'm not physicalist, so I would not describe you "knowing that God exists" in a physicalist way. The point is, that a physicalist would describe i...
I don't think that this is correct, the law of identity is not concerned with the symbol, nor the semantics (meaning) of the symbol, it is concerned w...
The physicalists produce this description on the this forum quite commonly. They refer to neurological processes. I disagree with such descriptions be...
You already said, you are using the word "intention" to refer to an act which is "about" something else. even the spasm in your leg is about something...
This is just a vicious circle, using goodness in human beings to determine the human purpose, in order to use the human purpose to identify goodness. ...
The former, "we each have the correct interpretation of the words", is a statement of what is required for the existence of a proposition under your d...
Could you give me an example of a human physical act which is not about something else? I don't think there is such a thing, because it seems like thi...
I don't understand this division between intentional acts and physical acts. Isn't it the case that many physical acts are intentional? And, aren't al...
No, I don't think there is anything teleological here. Interpretation is a process. Do you not agree? An interpretation is the result of an act of int...
I guess if there is no clear and evidently correct interpretation, there is no proposition there. That's why I asked, if there really is such a thing ...
I suppose it's a matter of definition here. A "quantity" is always a number of units. If the units are not real, then neither is the quantity. If you ...
Right, so if you and I are talking about the proposition "it is raining", what is the process which ensures that we each have the correct interpretati...
I think you are using "identity" here in a way other than that prescribed by Aristotle's law of identity. When you say "guessing at, possible identiti...
Here's a question for you Banno. Since it is required that a proposition be already verified, in the sense that I described, such that it consists of ...
There is a natural progression from the law of identity to the law of non-contradiction. The goal is to know, or understand the object. First we ident...
The group of words can be interpreted in different ways, and can be true or false depending on the interpretation. The proposition is, as you say, alw...
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