You're mixing present and past tense "being tricked". "Having been tricked" requires not knowing that you've been tricked. And this is fulfilled when ...
Doesn't the geological evidence show that time was passing before there was life on earth? Anyway, what I was asking you was don't you live your life ...
What you are refusing to take account of, is the fact that people change as time passes, and their minds change as well. Deception is an act in which ...
OK, we were talking about different things. I already presupposed that lying was when one knew that it is a falsehood being told, intentionally tellin...
If they are immaterial, why would you say that they are "part of the reality of immaterial things"? Isn't that contradictory? Can't we just say that r...
It's not forgetting which is deliberate misrepresentation of one's own thought and belief, it is remembering which can be such. This is the case when ...
That's Platonic dialectics, another example of how ancient methods are still useful. My claim was that the relations between material things are real,...
I didn't say that. I see, as usual, you didn't read my post, responding just to an out of context word. I said that filling in the blanks with imagina...
Oh yeah, this is a classical example of the logic of Trump rhetoric. Politicians are liars. I'm not a politician. Therefore I'm not a liar. Here's ano...
Forgetting is very real. When a person represents to oneself a memory, which is not really a memory, but something imagined, because the real thing ha...
True to yourself means adhering to your principles whether they are selfish and deceitful principles or not. So it is quite often that a person who is...
Why is this incoherent? Isn't the relation between one material object and another material object, something immaterial? It's seems like it's only in...
Do you know any of the facts concerning the economic crisis of 2008? Here's some info from Wikipedia: Millions of homes were lost to foreclosure. It s...
Oh no, don't you see a problem with this sort of "honesty"? If the person prioritizes self-interest, wants to take advantage of others, and is deceitf...
What kind of tactic is that, to break an agreement with your closest ally on the claim that they are a threat to national security? The present Americ...
I think you are missing the essence of conception here. Since concepts exist in the form of definitions, and a definition must be agreed upon to form ...
I think it's quite clear that Aristotelian, and Neo-Platonic metaphysics, each provide a wider scope for an understanding of reality than does modern ...
What do you mean by "beyond their scope". If the model is meant to represent all of reality, how could one go beyond the scope? I can see how one migh...
How would you define "honest" here, true to how he feels at that moment? If he feels like this is the right thing to say, whether or not it's true, he...
People, by nature have immoral tendency. Selfishness and immorality cannot be removed from human nature simply by defining "human nature" such that it...
OK, tell me if I understand you properly then. "Metaphysically impossible" depends on "broadly logically impossible", which depends on how the terms a...
I don't believe that is the way that "intelligible" is normally used. It is a word in which its most common usage is in philosophical discussions like...
Right, so if your object, or intent, in relation to a particular idea (that something is inherently unintelligible) is to falsify this idea, then does...
Why would one try to argue that mental objects do not exist? What would be the point of this argument, and how would it be supported. As far as I'm co...
I find this to be an odd thought. To me it seems, in a strange way contradictory, to hold an opinion which could never be proven as knowledge. What se...
Perhaps not in disagreement on this point, but I think that the atheist's perspective is unphilosophical, and unwise. The reason is that if we allow s...
What corresponds, or does not correspond, with reality is the meaning of the proposition, what it means. But isn't the meaning of the proposition part...
OK, so let's delve a little deeper into this then. Let's assume that there are aspects of reality which appear to be unintelligible to human beings. T...
We were talking about the meaning of the word "objective". Why do you bring up "courage" which is a disposition? You haven't shown any relationship be...
The point was made in my first post. You dismissed it and came back with some contradictory statement so I gave up, and went for the one-liner. This i...
I don't think you've avoided the problem I brought up. How do you account for the existence of impossibility? You've limited "exists" such that it can...
Why not? Philosophy is to inquire into the unknown, and as unknown, we must allow the possibility that it is unknowable, unassertable, unarguable and ...
That's odd, my OED says "something sought or aimed at; an objective point" I disagree, I think that's exactly what telos or final cause is. Why do you...
I highly doubt that anyone has ever understood the claims of classical theism. It is the nature of that beast, that there is an element of unintelligi...
You forgot the meaning of "objective" which unites both of these two distinct meanings, and that is "the objective", in the sense of a goal, or aim. T...
That conclusion doesn't follow. You can talk a bout something without accurately describing it. So metaphysics can be about reality without accurately...
The sun does not rise, nor does it set. The earth spins on its axis and creates the appearance of a rising and setting sun. Notice that the subject he...
Why would you say this? Clearly it's a false premise. Logical contradictions do exist, I encounter them quite often. Here's an example: the circle is ...
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