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You seem to take it for granted that we know what a subject is (I'm grammatically illiterate). I would think that "the girl" refers to a particular ob...
December 22, 2017 at 23:24
Ok, so "passivity" does not refer to something which matter is prior to being acted on, it refers to how matter will react when being acted on. See, y...
December 22, 2017 at 23:04
I don't think so, though I would like to see this idea properly developed and supported. "Evolution" refers to a particular theory. That theory is ass...
December 22, 2017 at 14:18
This I take as a mistake, to define rest as a relative lack of motion, because it doesn't provide a real descriptive limit to motion. Now the concept ...
December 22, 2017 at 13:51
Discrete things overlap each other all the time, but that doesn't make them continuous. You said that purpose is the glue which holds the parts togeth...
December 22, 2017 at 04:03
I see you just want to repeat the same mistake with different terms. We seem to agree on this dichotomy of motion and rest. Now you want to refer to t...
December 22, 2017 at 03:48
OK, so lets take this as an example then. Heat is defined in terms of motion, so to be hot is like having lots of motion, and having less motion is to...
December 22, 2017 at 01:26
As I explained, defining a thing with its opposite doesn't ground it. We need to refer to something outside the category to give it meaning. That's th...
December 21, 2017 at 22:40
As I said in my first reply on this issue, you can use "multiplicity" in a similar way as "collection", but this just means that you are using each to...
December 21, 2017 at 22:01
Right, so isn't "empirical evidence" reliant on faith? The nature of time is such that whatever is empirical evidence, is now in the past. isn't it ne...
December 21, 2017 at 15:11
I agree with this, but I wouldn't class time as "mental" because that is ambiguous and confusing. "Mental" often implies that it is dependent on the h...
December 21, 2017 at 13:58
I would say that this is a conclusion which must be made, the divine Forms are particular, as property of one divine mind, and they are present to us ...
December 21, 2017 at 13:51
It is particulars which I was talking about. I think I went through this with you on another thread. It is necessary to conclude that the Form of each...
December 21, 2017 at 04:14
Again, you are saying the same thing. By designating it a "collection", you have declared that it is one whole, a collection. So it is fundamentally a...
December 20, 2017 at 23:39
If it's not readily apparent to you that the use of arbitrary symbols requires faith, then you may not grasp this even with an explanation. But it's v...
December 20, 2017 at 22:09
I really don't know what else to tell you, except to read some Aristotle. Did you read the quote I put on the other thread? The individual is central ...
December 20, 2017 at 14:44
There is nothing about "discrete thing", which denies that the discrete thing can be made of parts. It is a unity and a unity may have parts. That it ...
December 19, 2017 at 22:26
I don't know what you mean by "unbroken as an antonym of continuous". But in case you haven't noticed, definitions are usually composed of defining te...
December 19, 2017 at 20:46
Right, I may have told you before that I don't find Stanford to be very helpful in their philosophical principles. First, they are not at all rigorous...
December 19, 2017 at 19:26
It is very questionable what exactly "belief without evidence" means, and whether it is truly irrational. We must consider what it means for a belief ...
December 19, 2017 at 19:10
Without the measurement system, there is no procedure. You cannot proceed without accepting on faith, these arbitrary assumptions, the numerals. You c...
December 19, 2017 at 16:40
So I go to a number of different Catholic churches and observe that the items are referred to as body and blood of Christ, so I ascertain that this co...
December 19, 2017 at 15:52
No problem. It's a busy time of year. Cheers! This was Samuel's point, which I didn't disagree with. It is an Aristotelian principle, the law of ident...
December 19, 2017 at 15:31
I think we do need time to discuss a change in space. A change in space requires movement, which requires time. Imagine points in space lined up like ...
December 19, 2017 at 14:59
Correctness in language use is totally faith. The fact that I can remove myself from good faith and get idiosyncratic if I want, demonstrates the real...
December 19, 2017 at 14:52
A) is excluded by the law of non-contradiction. To answer with B) would require definitions. If you define "undivided" as continuous you are begging t...
December 19, 2017 at 13:47
I'm sorry, I meant to make an illustration by analogy, not to insult. The argument is an argument from probability, it is not an argument from necessi...
December 19, 2017 at 13:25
It appears we have no hope of understanding one another. I asked you how your statement was relevant, if it is at all. What you said doesn't seem to b...
December 19, 2017 at 03:45
Relevance?
December 19, 2017 at 03:33
Glad you agree. Maybe we've got a starting point then. Do you agree also that the discrete and the continuous are inherently incommensurable?
December 19, 2017 at 03:00
Each unit is discrete. That a unit is potential divided into other discrete units does not imply any continuity. It implies that the unit is composed ...
December 19, 2017 at 02:50
One of the first principles taught to you in philosophy class, and you dismissed it, without reason, as "flawed". Some people just weren't meant to be...
December 19, 2017 at 01:25
The foot, as well as inches, are the measuring units, there is no underlying continuity. Divide the inch into halves, quarters, however you wish, they...
December 19, 2017 at 01:12
Of course not, that would be contradictory to say that a continuity has bounded lumps. If it has bounded lumps, it is not a continuity. This is simply...
December 18, 2017 at 22:54
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I said that a continuity is measured by discrete units. This is the point I am trying to make, that the measure...
December 18, 2017 at 22:10
The shared core is one of the things which validates religion as a real thing. It is a real property of human existence. Likewise, as much as we are a...
December 18, 2017 at 22:03
A degree is a discrete unit. By measuring a continuity in degrees, you are applying discrete units to the continuity. That is exactly my point, to mak...
December 18, 2017 at 21:49
What about the meaning of words, aren't they things unseen? Or do you claim to have seen the body and blood of Christ? If you've taken part in the Euc...
December 18, 2017 at 21:18
But faith is reality, you just admitted so much. And the "says you", "no says you" attitude is reality too. So it's nonsense to say "let's just remove...
December 18, 2017 at 13:35
Sorry Samuel, I missed this post so I'm delayed in response. I agree, individuals are true identities. The question here though, is where do universal...
December 18, 2017 at 13:23
The problem is that faith is something very real, it is just as real as the food we eat, and we all partake. That someone can't handle the proposition...
December 18, 2017 at 12:57
Your account was one of constraints, and degrees of freedom, which implies necessarily an agent which is to some degree free and constrained. So your ...
December 18, 2017 at 12:40
As I said, you have no description of the qualitative difference between what has already been, and what will have being in the future. What you expre...
December 18, 2017 at 03:40
I don't think so. A dichotomy is a mathematical relation only if you define it that way. But there are fundamental differences which cannot be express...
December 18, 2017 at 01:12
That's only a matter of perspective. The other perspective claims that making categorically distinct things, like the sensible and the intelligible (t...
December 17, 2017 at 23:18
I think it is important to understand the raft as something we must make ourselves, each one of us. The Buddha does not give you the understanding, wh...
December 17, 2017 at 19:11
I think, that by definition, accidentals cannot enter into the universal. If the accidentals are part of the description, then the description is a de...
December 17, 2017 at 15:14
Now that's a pointless suggestion. The reason why we cannot decide whether transubstantiation refers to something real, is because we cannot agree on ...
December 17, 2017 at 15:09
Fame corrupts the mind. It's unavoidable, almost to the point of absolutism. Necessity is the mother of invention (sorry Frank et al), and fame remove...
December 17, 2017 at 14:48
You would think that the lion would recognize the difference between night and day for example, and this might enter into the lion's categorization as...
December 17, 2017 at 14:38