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Your distinction between "physical time" and "metaphysical time", upon which you base your claim that special relativity makes no metaphysical claims,...
June 27, 2018 at 02:11
Now you seem to be trying to change what you are saying. Before you were talking about whether the question is significant or meaningful, now you are ...
June 27, 2018 at 01:58
OK, so your dismissing inductive reasoning as not capable of assuring truth. That's not an unusual tactic, but we might just as well say that we can n...
June 27, 2018 at 01:38
I don't know what you mean by "presupposes" here, and why does such presupposing produce the conclusion you declare. I agree that metaphysis will alwa...
June 26, 2018 at 11:14
Ontology is a branch of metaphysics. If your intent is, as it seems, to separate "fundamental ontology" from the ontology which is understood to be a ...
June 26, 2018 at 01:42
Right, and that's clearly a metaphysical statement, just like the opposing claim that there is an absolute ordering of events is a metaphysical statem...
June 26, 2018 at 00:37
Your "book" contains a very odd definition of metaphysics. Ontology is metaphysics, and ontology concerns what "is". Simultaneous is a statement about...
June 25, 2018 at 10:41
Yes, the very first, as the argument is that prior to the physical existence of life there is necessarily a non-physical agent. That's the basis for m...
June 25, 2018 at 10:27
Special relativity is a metaphysical theory. It renders an opinion on the reality of simultaneity.
June 25, 2018 at 02:08
Did you read the argument? It's not a theory, it's a logical argument. You haven't yet addressed it. As it's a very simple argument, you ought to be a...
June 25, 2018 at 01:59
It's hard to say why I find it interesting. I think it's like any field of study, something about it just draws my mind toward it. Suppose you're inte...
June 24, 2018 at 12:21
Right, that was my point. Now do you not agree with me? If I am interested, then the question is meaningful, and therefore significant. What makes the...
June 24, 2018 at 01:34
So let me get this straight. You do not see the significance of the question concerning the relationship between existence and time, and so you are as...
June 24, 2018 at 00:55
Wayfarer, if you don't mind, I'm going to add my two cents worth. I agree, that's an interesting question. We ought to evaluate the effects of such pr...
June 23, 2018 at 22:52
That's because, as I explained to you in Streetlight's other thread, the incommensurability lies in the relation of one spatial dimension to another. ...
June 23, 2018 at 12:06
I read some of the referrals, I found it wildly speculative, as I said, and uninteresting. Read Parfit seems to try to make a point by referral, and I...
June 23, 2018 at 11:56
Exactly as I described, the creation of the living physical body. That is not explained by physicalism, which refers to some unsupported, random and t...
June 23, 2018 at 01:59
So I'll repeat my answer to what you were asking. The question of the op concerns the relationship between time and existence. I believe that this is ...
June 23, 2018 at 01:44
No, the genome is the physical body. There is an activity which creates and interprets the information. What directs the activity cannot be the genome...
June 23, 2018 at 01:24
Why is that "vacuous"? If we are the type of being which can project meaning onto something, create meaning out of nothing, doesn't this say something...
June 22, 2018 at 11:10
It's not physical evidence which tells us that the soul is non-physical, that doesn't make sense. It's logic which gives us this conclusion. Here's a ...
June 22, 2018 at 10:37
Looks like some wild speculations there:
June 22, 2018 at 00:39
The evidence indicates that the universe was created before human beings existed. If we accept that evidence then a human being could not have created...
June 22, 2018 at 00:25
If a person believes that "purpose" refers to something which is only expressed by human actions, then it is pointless to discuss purpose in relation ...
June 21, 2018 at 11:14
That's your opinion, but "the stupid thing" which I said points to the issue of assigning to the creator of the universe, properties which only human ...
June 21, 2018 at 10:55
Right, and isn't that "backstory" what makes the question meaningful? Aren't you inspired to uncover that backstory and determine its meaning? So agai...
June 21, 2018 at 10:48
Unless you are accepting of these "Gods", to claim that they are perfectly acceptable is simple contradiction.
June 21, 2018 at 02:02
If you think that it is "perfectly acceptable" to assign the emotions of human beings to the creator of the universe, then I think you have a problem.
June 21, 2018 at 01:53
I answered that, it questions the relationship between time and existence, that's why it's meaningful. If you say that it is not meaningful, and I say...
June 21, 2018 at 01:49
This is not an acceptable question. When you say "who cares what happens", "cares" refers to a human emotion. But it is impossible that a God which wa...
June 21, 2018 at 01:26
So long as an eternity hasn't passed we should be doing fine. To deny the question as meaningful, as you are doing is what is a fictional construct. J...
June 21, 2018 at 01:11
I think my formulation is triadic. Yours is much more complicated requiring as much as five elements. I have body and soul as the two principals, with...
June 21, 2018 at 00:40
I think the issue of the unity of the soul and body is complicated, as Wayfarer says. Aquinas wrote a lot about it so he is a good source. At other pl...
June 19, 2018 at 11:13
We went through this already. The reason is not necessarily difference. There is no difference between here and there, yet we individuate these as dif...
June 19, 2018 at 02:04
That's right, the nature of the material is it's form. That's why there is a difference between different molecules, and different molecules are respo...
June 19, 2018 at 01:30
What Aquinas argues in this passage is that the intellect and the soul of the human being are united as one, such that the human soul is an intellectu...
June 19, 2018 at 00:39
To say god is Everlasting, would be similar to saying god is time itself. So long as there is time, there is god, and god is inseparable from time, no...
June 18, 2018 at 11:46
Sorry Galuchat, but I really have difficulty with your terminology, and this makes it very hard to answer your questions. You ask me "what is your con...
June 18, 2018 at 11:34
So if individual differences are perceived, doesn't this require a mind to perceive them? Aren't you just confirming what I've been arguing? The mind ...
June 18, 2018 at 11:20
The whole point of distinguishing matter from form is to distinguish between that which is responsible for differences, form, and that which is respon...
June 18, 2018 at 02:22
I don't think that you define "eternal" properly here. It means without beginning or end in time. Because its boundaries are not in time, its existenc...
June 18, 2018 at 01:58
What we perceive are forms, so perceptual differences are formal differences. "Material differences" makes no sense, as matter is by definition that w...
June 18, 2018 at 01:47
There's no such thing as "material difference", that would contradict the concept of "matter". All differences are formal.
June 18, 2018 at 01:06
So they are the same difference, just like the difference between 3 and 5, and 7 and 9, is the same difference, 2. I take it you are giving up on your...
June 18, 2018 at 00:09
Which part do you disagree with, that what creates genetic code is somewhat unknown, or that the logic leads us to conclude that this cause is non-phy...
June 17, 2018 at 19:18
To put it more succinctly, the question would be whether there are any electrons there, or just clouds, without the human act of individuation, which ...
June 17, 2018 at 14:53
Right, but we have two distinct categories, physical agents and non-physical agents. The physical agent accounts for what we call efficient cause, and...
June 17, 2018 at 14:25
We're just going around in circles here. Different means unlike, not the same. If we notice that things are unlike, not the same, we say that thing ar...
June 16, 2018 at 12:07
An agent is something active, actual. In semiotic processes it is required that there is an agent which produces signs and an agent which interprets s...
June 16, 2018 at 11:20
Do you know the difference between the general and the particular? It is not the same as the difference between the singular and the plural. To say th...
June 16, 2018 at 02:07