I just took the definition from the OED. You can take that up with them, if you don't think they're making an adequate representation of usage. In my ...
What? You think that when I say "I", there is no difference in meaning from when I say "it"? These two indicate the same subject to you, such that the...
It's no wonder you're getting lost, you're inverting what I said. What I meant is that we speak of the unintelligible as an unknown. This implies that...
Sure the adjective "certain" is the same. But it means a completely different thing to say "it is certain" than to say "I am certain". Call it "object...
Isn't there a contradiction in there? How can one who only trusts a few, never hold back his opinion? If you were prone to distrust, wouldn't you actu...
I agree with you that if certainty means "undoubted fact", and "undoubted" means doubted by no one, then there may very well be no such thing as a cer...
I don't see your problem. We mention the unintelligible commonly, it is thought of as the unknown. We don't know if it's apparent unintelligible natur...
This conclusion concerning science doesn't follow from your premise. Logical fallacies arise from mistaken logical process. Science is not the appropr...
Banno said: I said: As you pointed out, only 2), "I am certain the earth is flat", is an expression of an attitude. Therefore "everyone is certain the...
No, one is an attitude while the other is a generalization concerning many attitudes, stating that everyone has the same attitude. Do you not recogniz...
An attitude is a property of an individual person. I have an attitude toward a given proposition, and you may have a different attitude toward that pr...
The issue though, is what type of thing is a possibility. If we cannot produce a description of what a possibility is, then we cannot distinguish betw...
This is the ontological difference which I alluded to. The "fully consistent theory of modality that retains the law of excluded middle, also excludes...
No, because the margin of error is an average, so it doesn't mean that each time is 99% sure.. And there could be other factors involved which are not...
How would you be certain that the level of 70%, 80%, or 90% had been achieved? Or would you be 90% certain that 70% certainty had been achieved, etc.?...
But possibility isn't thus constrained, this is demonstrated by the fact that mathematics always leads to infinity. That's the problem. You can produc...
OK keep watching then. I'm pretty good at it, maybe you'll learn something. You didn't state an argument to support your premise: So I had to provide ...
So there is no final cause, or intention behind the general feeling of hunger? It is not there for the sake of anything, it is just an accidental outc...
No, that's the problem, the exact opposite is the case. So long as we allow that possibilities are real things, there will always be something inheren...
It's pretty simple. What I claim is that if your "causal laws" exclude the will as a cause of human action, then your causal laws are incorrect. So if...
That doesn't avoid my point. You still must choose something particular before you can eat. So you still must go through that process of transforming ...
I think you're missing the point. No one eats "food in general", we eat particular items. It doesn't matter whether the fridge is stocked or not, the ...
The division between one event and another within a causal relation is artificial, made by a mind and arbitrary. Therefore to divide an event into cau...
But this would not be keeping true to Aristotle's description of the four causes. Formal cause might be understood as constraint, but not final cause....
The intended goal, not the efficient cause, is the cause of the act. So in Aristotle's example, the goal of "health" is the cause of the man's walking...
Freedom of the will follows, because if there is no logical connection between the human action and anything which could serve as the cause of the act...
Actually, the category of unknown unknowns is quite difficult, and somewhat paradoxical. You can't name any unknown unknowns because that would say th...
If you read Wohlleben's "The Hidden Life of Trees", you will find that he describes all of the various activities of trees (and there's very many of t...
The problem is that we use the word "certainty" to refer to things which are known as definite fact, while we use certitude to refer to the attitude o...
Allowing that final cause is a true cause denies determinism, in favour of free choice. You cannot have a deterministic system and final cause, they a...
In addition to the "four causes" Aristotle considered two more, which you demonstrate here, "chance" and "fortune" (or luck). He decided that "chance"...
No, but I don't see how that's relevant to the issue of whether a plant wants water. Learning how to refuse one's wants and desires is morality, and I...
I don't think I understand what you mean here when you say that the connection between the decision and the act, is logical. Let's say that deciding t...
I think that this is exactly the opposite of reality. The language of intention, with words such as "want" are appropriate for this subject. It is the...
The "sniffing out" is an apprehension of possibilities. This is what a mind does, apprehends possibilities choosing appropriate ones. Where your appro...
Now, instead of addressing my post, you've completely changed the subject. You said "nature can check every possible option to find the most locally e...
Here's something you ought to consider apokrisis, if you wish to produce a more comprehensible metaphysics. You appear to be mixing together two compl...
What's this, some form of pantheism? Are you saying that the belief expressed by these metaphysicians is that the universe, or "Cosmos" is some sort o...
Let's see if we can agree on some principles. 1) Making a conscious decision and acting on a decision are not the same thing. This is evident from the...
Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. Don't you think that a plant has reasons for producing seeds? Well the word "dumb" doesn't say much. If a plant does ...
I don't like "awareness", or "mind" as defining terms for life. What's wrong with "self"? Living things seem to have an inherent selfishness, whereby ...
Where I see the weakness is in how you define "agency", and how you define "agent" in your classification of actions as beyond the control of the agen...
This difficulty with "cause" is why we're better off looking for the reason for an occurrence, why it occurred, rather than its cause. The distinction...
No of course not. How many times do have to say it? It starts with the pedaling, and may stop with the brakes at any moment, and the direction changes...
There is no "long run" for an organism. They are born, eat, get active, reproduce, and die. This idea that homeostasis is necessary for an organism to...
Importance is very subjective. What is important to you is not the same as what is important to me. I think that we rationalize and produce our ration...
Right, that's why homeostasis, and its assumed goal of "stability" is an inappropriate description of living systems. The systems do not have stabilit...
Right, that's what I said, in homeostasis stability is the goal. There's no adult male cow manure here. Now, let's proceed to discuss "managing instab...
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