For Trump, it's nothing more than a money grab. He says, we're doing it because we have to, but it's more like we're doing it because we can. Of cours...
I didn't refer to "conscious agency". The soul is understood to be the agent of all living things. I believe it is a mistake to associate consciousnes...
The point is that all differences are conceptual. "A difference" is a function of the description. We can attribute difference to the independent worl...
That is the issue which apokrisis doesn't seem to understand. Apokrisis wants to reduce everything to semiotics, not apprehending the logical conclusi...
Different means not the same, unlike, and "a difference" is an instance of this. As such, "difference" is a general term, it doesn't refer to an indiv...
Each, the head, the torso, and the unity, can be considered as individuals. That's my point, individuation is how we judge things. One way of judging ...
Well, clearly differentiation is something completely different from individuation. As I explained to Streetlight, individuation requires boundaries i...
OK, let's assume that there is an act of differentiation which is responsible for real differences as a cause of differences, as you suggest, such tha...
But God would see every single thing large or small, meaning all parts, and how each part is a part of something larger, which itself would be a speci...
Do you not understand that there are differences, and then there is the recognition of differences? These two are completely different. The latter is ...
I know that the speed of light is not constant, but it is a constant, equivocation makes a meaningless argument. There is inconsistency between using ...
Yes, individuation is a process which gives existence to an individual. But that process is not the ever changing world, through which things come int...
You should interpret as written, without adding your own presumptions. You don't seem to know how to read very well. I use explanatory terms to help y...
You said "Individuation is not an act, at least...". I said "the suffix "ation" indicates an act". That you can give examples of many "ation" words wh...
You were talking about disorder being prior to order, in an absolutely way, as Peirce's Firstness. This is contrary to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. ...
Right, that's exactly the uneducated metaphysical speculation I was referring to. It's clearly unprincipled speculations which are completely meaningl...
I thought you said that a universal computer could emulate any possible physical system, and that it's impossible that one universal computer could do...
So a "universal computer" is a fictional thing, defined as a computational device which can simulate the dynamics of any possible physical system? Sin...
These examples are irrelevant. We are talking about the act of individuation, what this consists of, not what some other types of acts consist of. Tha...
So prior to "symmetry breaking", there is change without direction. This must be disorderly change, change which is not in any way directed. Where doe...
I think the suffix "ation" indicates an act. If this act is not carried out by a subject who individuates something from that thing's environment, the...
Do you agree that emergence is a type of change? And doesn't change require time? If so, then it is impossible that time could emerge (come to be as t...
If there is no time, then emergence, which is a type of change, is impossible. So it doesn't make any sense to say that there was potential before the...
To identify something is to recognize it as distinct from everything else, which is to assign to it a specific character, and this is to individuate i...
We can suspend judgement on all principles, as doubtful, and this is the way of skepticism. But it is possible to reach the bottom, a principle which ...
How would one differentiate the actual from the possible, if the actual is supposed to be one of the possible? Would this be an arbitrary designation?...
But a possibility does not need to be predicted, or even to be apprehended in order to exist as a possibility. After it is apprehended it exists as an...
What you call the "adjacent possible" is just another way of expressing "the means to the end". What you are saying is that specific ends cannot be br...
The preacher has left the building. "Conception" and "imagination" have the same meaning to you. Where lies reason in this confused mess, which is you...
That actuality is put before potentiality is the logical conclusion produced by Aristotle's cosmological argument. The argument is very simple, and on...
Right, have you read his expose on time? Do you understand the difference between time as a measurement and time as something which measured? Are you ...
But this was not the question though. The issue was this: Notice that you refer to the "higher truth" as an ideal. An ideal is something sought, as a ...
The apology is accepted, and gratefully received, but I'm afraid that the real problem, which is the attitude behind those words used, remains. You've...
How is this an error, to encourage people to work toward the same goal, the "higher truth", or whatever ideal it is that one may encourage others to w...
According to the definition they are non-physical. That is implied necessarily by you definition of physical as that which is subject to constraints. ...
By your own definition of "physical" you have divided reality into multiple realms. You say that the physical is "any system subject to energetic cons...
That's the idea, I keep harping away at inadequacies, contradictions and hypocrisy, until the professors of said inadequacies admit to the inadequacy....
I agree that Aristotle was, broadly speaking, Platonist. But through the terms of his dualism, matter and form, which are associated with "potential" ...
Modern Platonic realism is a form of idealism which does not, in itself, provided a good representation of dualism. Aristotle sufficiently refuted Pyt...
Do you recognize the difference between a thing and the description of that thing? Laws such as the conservation of energy, and Newton's third law are...
Your definition of "physical" is missing something, Uber. It is missing a clear definition or explanation of "constraint". It relies on "constraint" a...
If I say that a poodle is a dog, and you give me an example of a dog which is not a poodle, as evidence that my claim is false, all this means is that...
To clarify my position, I believe that there is no such paradox. The apparent paradox is the result of Wittgenstein describing "rule" in an unacceptab...
When you fail to achieve the desired effect for example, you know there was a mistake. If there was a mistake, then something was done wrongly. I am n...
Quite obviously this is wrong, because it happens all the time that we make such mistakes. It's a matter of misinterpretation. It's not a case of havi...
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