What you said is that there is a difference between reporting facts and declaring facts. I said there is no such difference. You attempted to clarify ...
Well what's the point in talking about something you know nothing about if you don't want to learn something about it, unless you're going to at least...
I have no intention to change their minds. I think the idea that there's reality which is beyond our capacity to sense, but can still be known by the ...
I had a thread once where I asked about the nature of heat radiation. There is a curious thing about the radiation of heat. In the way it is described...
Why would the object be bread if it were called something else? You go on about "meaning is use", but you seem to have no clue of what that means. Use...
You are not decreeing this as a fact, so the example is not relevant. If you were decreeing it as a fact, then it would be no different from reporting...
We cannot measure a physical thing by measuring its effects on another physical thing. That is, as it says, measuring the thing's effect, not measurin...
I'm not familiar with the examples, I'm only going on what #3 says, along with my understanding of the Aristotelian explanation of causation. It may s...
There is no difference between these two. To report the facts is to decree what the facts are. You are trying to make a boundary, a distinction, where...
I believe I explained this in the other thread where you posted. To go from cold to hot, a potential to an actuality requires an actuality, but the ac...
I do not think that "simultaneous cause" is Aristotelian. In my understanding of Aristotle's four ways that "cause" is used, cause is always temporall...
I was talking about assigning a name "the body of Christ" to an object. You were talking about what "bread" means, and what "body" means. However, all...
Hey, the case you've been making is irrelevant to what I'm saying. You first engaged me, not vise versa. So if you don't want to listen to me then... ...
Christ is the named subject, and we are trying to identify the body and blood of this one called "Christ". You don't agree with the Church's identific...
What is meant by #3 is that the existence of things are contingent, and that they are temporal, meaning that they have a beginning and ending in time....
OK so you think that the Church ought not insist that the elements of the Eucharist are actually the body and blood of Christ, because you do not beli...
As I said what do you think gives you the authority to tell the Church what "body of Christ" refers to? I would think that there are many in the churc...
As you said in your last post, meaning depends on rules, so if we scrap the rules, we scrap meaning, and this is a problem. If the Church wants to say...
I totally understand that. But I disagree with Platonic Realism. Some of the reasons for my disagreement are explained in that last post. Other reason...
When the issue is the naming of objects with words, as is the case with "Metaphysician Undercover", "the body of Christ", "the blood of Christ", and "...
You sure have an odd set of rules. It allows you to equate two distinct things, "X means Y". Isn't that no different from saying "bread means body"? I...
What you don't seem to understand is that the "universal form" is the abstraction, a description which we use to describe the objects. We have a descr...
Sorry to have to shatter your illusion, but without faith, nothing is true. Without faith words have no meaning. And without meaning there can be no t...
I think you misunderstand the situation. You don't see the masts, you don't see the ship. What you see is the flag. The flag is the only physical thin...
I think that this is fundamentally untrue. What is expressed by physicists is the reality of quantum mechanics. And a quantum is inherently a discrete...
Here's the issue with transubstantiation. By the power of the Word, the things referred to as the body and blood of Christ, are actually the body and ...
That's pretty straight forward. Generally, things sensed and understood through the laws of physical are physical, and those which aren't are non-phys...
The point though, was that the concept of one changed, evolved. My proposal was that in the original sense the concept of "one" did not allow that one...
I've read, here's some quotes: See, correct or incorrect in mathematical procedure is determined according to whether we behave in a manner which is c...
Actually the date of the first moon walk was July 20, 1969. Following that, there was a massive party of celebration at Woodstock, New York, from Aug1...
It's a really cool word though, transubstantiation, much cooler than transform. Cool enough to make one want to believe in it just on the sake of its ...
I saw no such explanation. What you said is this: This provides no argument that the cause is simultaneous to the effect. What you seem to be saying i...
So that's a very big difference, isn't? It's the difference between truth as coherence, and truth as correspondence. I say that 2+2=4 because it is co...
What question are you talking about? I am only objecting to your claim that it is not useful to distinguish between physical and non-physical. If, as ...
Oh sorry, I misunderstood. I wouldn't agree with this. The "movement of the pencil", and the "creation of the line" are one and the same thing. They a...
I agree with this way of describing memory, it is not veridical. But I think we assume that there is something "real" which the memory refers to. And ...
You were claiming that the two, the efficient cause, and the effect, are simultaneous. That seemed very odd to me, so I thought I'd bring this to your...
Sufficiency is irrelevant. The question was whether there is a type of priority which is not a temporal priority. Augustine suggested that there could...
Are these "priors" not temporally prior? If the "prior" is necessary for the existence of the thing, then isn't the prior necessarily temporally prior...
No, that's clearly contradictory. The future is what is always ahead of us, just like the past is what is always behind us. To say that the future bec...
If you analyze "logical priority" you will see that the only valid way that something can be prior to another is that it is temporally prior. The clai...
This doesn't seem right. Efficient cause is necessarily temporally prior to the effect. If they were simultaneous, then there would be no temporal pro...
I agree with this. So let's begin with this assumption, this premise, as an approach toward looking at the physical world. Notice first, that this des...
So you do not believe in imaginary numbers? They've become a very important part of modern mathematics, I believe they are integral to quantum equatio...
What is in place is the definition of what it means to follow a rule, provided by Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations. Acting in a way wh...
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