Metaphysician Undercover

I know, it's a complex issue and not easily explained. But let me tell you, it isn't a problem. It's a straw man created by a misunderstanding of dual...

It is impossible that a thought could will itself into existence. It must already exist in order to will anything. So willing itself into existence wo...

This, I believe, may be debated. An event never really finishes, nor does it have a real beginning. We as human beings designate, somewhat arbitrarily...

That issue was resolved a long time ago by Plato who introduced a third aspect as a medium between the two, the tripartite person. There are two compl...

Didn't I already reply to this post yesterday? Check above.

I'm not completely familiar with Whitehead's metaphysics, only from secondary sources, but I think he emphasizes the reality of the present, as the ti...

I think that an occasion qua occasion, though it is said to be actual, does not have concrete existence. This is what allows it to encompass the past ...

No, I'm talking just about living bodies here. The semiotic agent is required for the existence of the living physical body, if the body consists of s...

Do you agree that the organism, as a physical body consists of semiotic activities? That is the principal premise, semiotic activities are the cause o...

So we have a difference of interpretation here. When someone asks me to tell the truth, I interpret it as them asking me what I honestly believe conce...

Got his phone number?

What I was asking is how do you relate this to the division between what I want to do, and what I ought to do. It's all thought, as you say, but suppo...

Hi Df, I'd like to return to this point because I see it as the principal point of disagreement between you and I. When Aristotle mentioned this in Ph...

Here we go ...the divided self. Can you describe or explain how the divided self, divided in this way, between what I want to do, and what I ought to ...

The third thing I mentioned was politics. Beyond that, I said honesty, and this is what your mother meant when she said to tell the truth, be honest. ...

Yes, I would say that's a good thing, not a faltering, to find consistency between various different metaphysical perspectives. Each metaphysic is goi...

I don't think Aristotle ever described matter as having intentionality. You're just making this up, it's not Aristotelian at all, it's fiction. As ind...

You mean those two bald assertions? 1. Infinite exits only as a concept. Concepts are not natural. Therefore no infinite thing is natural. 2. Infinite...

So tet's assume that "ad" here is a prefix as you claim. What "adaequatio" would refer to is an activity, a process, a movement toward equation or equ...

Yes, I believe we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.

As I've described self-deception, rationalizing is one step in the process. It is the cover-up. This is when one knows that what one is doing, or sayi...

I think I have a better suggestion, and that is to remove the requirement of "truth" from knowledge. In this way we do not compromise "truth", allowin...

I don't think that this is the case at all. Process philosophers tend to start with that assumption. But as they proceed into expounding on a process ...

I agree that in the Timaeus Plato is trying to establish a relationship between the universal and the particulars which are instances of the universal...

I think you're a little out of whack with your references. I'll verify Summa Theologica Q16, a2 for you. The quote is taken from the objections. My tr...

There seems to be a disconnect here between "creating an individual", and, "the intelligibility of the individuals", as these two are quite distinct. ...

Self deception comes in many forms. If you do what you know that you ought not do, and you have success, so that you later think that perhaps it's ok ...

I've read a lot of Aquinas and have yet to see where he defines truth as adequacy. Aristotle taught in his Nicomachean Ethics, that there is differing...

See why I said it's pointless to introduce you to any facts?

Six different corporations adds up to a lot of competition. Add on to that all the foreign sources, and where's the cause for doubt?

When the so-called "facts" are corroborated by many different sources, I tend to believe them as facts.

I just said your premise that Trump had zero control is unsupported. So we cannot yet rule out the possibility that trump is the robber. So the robber...

Right, now let's not ignore all those facts.

Your premise that Trump had zero control is unsupported, so you cannot conclude that trump was not the robber. And the store owner cannot be held resp...

A plausible theory, in order that it is plausible, is of necessity built on facts. Notice I said "facts", and you ask how the theory could be a "fact"...

No. but what the scientist does is in accordance with what the funders want or else the funding would not be there. I've never heard "truth" defined i...

This is just the typical theist/atheist debate. The theist sees order in the universe and claims there must be a cause of it and concludes God. The at...

No, it's a pattern of events, occurrences, observed appearances. I wasn't talking about cause, I was talking about prediction; and specifically, the c...

It's called "denial", refusing to consider the evidence.

What about all that computer hacking? What difference does this make? If the store got robbed while I was at the desk, or while you were at the desk, ...

All that is required is to model the patterns, run the model, and it will hand you the prediction directly derived from the patterns. Why would you ne...

I don't think Russia entrapped Trump, he's a willing participant. He was handed the idea by the Russians, you could be president of the USA, he though...

Why continue stating falsities? We all have our careers, and we do what we get paid to do. It's called earning a living. Sure, but the assumption of t...

This is where modern science is not inclined to go, toward the "underlying causal machinery". All that is necessary for adequate prediction is to find...

Don't bother introducing raza to any facts, that's rather pointless.

Yes, science is "in part, descriptive", but the trend in modern science, due to the way that scientific projects are funded, is toward usefulness, and...

I think that this is a common form of self-deception (there are numerous different types). Let's suppose that I don't know with any degree of certaint...

I don't know about that, the article says that white and rightwing terrorists already carried out nearly twice as many attacks as Muslim extremists in...

That's pragmatism for you. It's why science has turned to prediction as its MO rather than truth. Prediction is useful, truth is just interesting ... ...

Why separate "reality" from "real" in this way? It makes no sense to me. Reality consists of all that is real. If it is real, it is part of reality, o...