Metaphysician Undercover

I don't agree with this. To say "that than which nothing greater can be conceived", is to limit conception, and this is to deny infinity. So that stat...

Wow, I see you really don't read my posts.

But that is not at all the case. We describe things. We describe things changing. We do not describe time. And from those descriptions we make deducti...

Symmetry-breaking is clearly categorically different from symmetry. But asymmetry is nothing other than a weak-ass negation of symmetry. So the metaph...

I don't think that's the case. You watch things change, and you deduce that time has passed. In that case time isn't strictly empirical, it's theoreti...

It's very difficult to have any rational discussion with you because you show no respect for conventional use of the English language. Asymmetry is as...

I was just going by what you said. You said a categorical difference is a difference of opposition. Orthogonal is a completely different concept from ...

"Imagine" being the operative word.

That's exactly the question. And it remains unanswered. But you might also ask how does a plant remember anything when it doesn't have a brain.

In the early times, as today, there were different branches of Christianity. The fact that there were attempts by some to establish orthodoxy, such as...

I just received "Living In A Mindful Universe" by Dr. Eben Alexander. Check it out, I can't wait to read it.

A dichotomy is a separation. The nature of how the two separate things relate to each other is not described by "dichotomy". To arrive at the conclusi...

These statements I take to be contradictory: The problem being that Peirce's "eternal becoming" as you describe, renders definiteness incomplete. Ther...

To say that an individual does not adhere to our faith, and is therefore heretical, and may be ostracized depending on one's actions, is not the same ...

According to what I posted, I believe "history" itself to be perspective dependent. So to say that this is "revisionist history" is not very meaningfu...

I think you are making the category mistake of associating what is said of "a population", with what is said of "an individual". Variations occur in r...

It is evident that in early Christianity there is all sorts of disagreement on principles, especially concerning the divine nature of Jesus. So of cou...

But that's not what "change" means. It means that one state becomes another. To have two distinct states is to have two distinct states, and this does...

Do you understand what the word "cause" means? When something is the "consequence of necessity", then that thing has a cause. Something can only be ne...

Then, as you say change is nothing. There is one state, then the next state. This is not change. Change is the act of becoming different. But in this ...

Show you? How about you take a look at all the wonderfully varied species of life which exist all around you everywhere. Then read Charles Darwin's "O...

I see, science rather than philosophy is the authority on what "causality" is. It seems that the teaching of science where you are is very poor.

The development of a religion is an odd thing. If we take Christianity as an example, you can see that in the early days, it needed to promote free ch...

No, I don't think such rejection would be justified. That would be like if you meet someone speaking a different language, and you reject what they sa...

The problem with this perspective is that the two determinate states cannot be contiguous, because change occurs between one and the other, and change...

It's very clear that "evolution" referrers to a process of change. Check your dictionary if necessary. You can reread my posts if you have something m...

What Aristotle demonstrated is that "continuous change" is incompatible with the logical principles of what is and what is not, being and not being. S...

This kind of talk is totally foreign to me. Bird is a genus, because there is "some essential natural purpose" which "a bird" expresses. No matter how...

There is a coherent difference to be made between existence and being which can be made from understanding the history of these terms. "Being" goes wa...

I would say that the most important thing is to learn how to read the material with the intent to understand. This is completely different from the in...

As I told, evolution is an activity, therefore it consists of both causes and effects. Variation in species is the effect of evolution.

All activities cause change. Evolution is an activity. Therefore evolution causes change.

Evolution is a description of what has happened, so to say that it is ineffable is what is absurd. It is no more ineffable than any other activity whi...

OK, I see the point. I cannot imagine "something comes from nothing" in any way other than "nothing becomes something". And this is like saying that n...

It's not begging the question, it's just a matter of obeying the fundamental grammar of the English language. To predicate a property such as "instabi...

I don't quite understand the question. Longitude and latitude are totally arbitrary, like the number of degrees in a circle. The measurements of time ...

Stability is a property. The predication of "unstable" to "nothing", requires the assumption that nothing is something.

Evolution is a process of development. It is an activity, Therefore theories of evolution refer to both causes and effects, as is necessary for unders...

Until we have an adequate way of distinguishing between what is real, and what is not, I don't see any point in worrying about where reality comes to ...

That's what I was asking. If we may communicate by means other than language, then what distinguishes language from other forms of communication? I do...

Too bad the limits on what you can say couldn't stop you at the point where you stopped making sense. You know, if the limits aren't real and existent...

Actually, that's exactly how understanding progresses, We proceed from particular instances of the individual, through the specific to the more genera...

You weren't talking about zero, you were talking about asymptotic limits.

Try "Let's go". Clearly, if there are some sentences which cannot be satisfactorily interpreted, then one cannot claim the capacity to interpret any s...

[ You're not making sense. You defined dichotomy as "a relation that is mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive". Then you described "reciprocal lim...

Because not all language use follows the rules of first order predicate logic.

What are you saying? I thought we were talking about language use in general, not this specific type of language use, predicate logic. You don't reall...

We were discussing dichotomies, not reciprocal limits. And your attempt to turn dichotomies into reciprocal limits is misguided. . Right, so rest and ...

Nouns and predicates? isn't that a mixed metaphor? Don't you mean subjects and predicates? I think that the predicate often contains a noun.

No, I don't presume that. I understand that some things change and some things do not. I do not presume that world the consists exclusively of either ...