Metaphysician Undercover

As I said, it's a tainted sameness, because it's a matter of overlooking differences, and assigning "same", for one purpose or another. By way of cont...

No, there is no reference to now in "already occurred". As I said, you are deucing now from "already occurred", by saying that "already occurred" must...

Look what you are doing. You say that experience is of the past, and you could not differentiate between past and future if there was no now. So your ...

Perhaps it appears as obfuscation to you, but to me the beauty of the world is found in the uniqueness of each and every thing, with each and every mi...

So your claim is that the child understands what "red" is without understanding language. Why is that not contradictory to you? No, I'm not saying tha...

The cosmological argument is consistent with what we observe, as well as consistent with logical principles derived from what we observe. Do you recog...

A "dimension" is a conceptual construct, as is "force". I do not think that the concept of "force" relies on the concept of "dimension", because human...

This may not be correct. Consider the possibility that now never changes, it is always the same, and what is changing is the physical world. Now we ha...

I noticed that the referred article suggested that the practising astrologer ought to use the technique of fishing. And I recognize that there is a lo...

No they don't. OK, now you add another qualification, the child must be able to understand the language. That just proves my point. Which do you belie...

What implies that form is prior to matter, and therefore has separate existence from matter , is the nature of the particular in relation to the natur...

So Agustino, why would you think that the astrological calendar would be better than the lunar calendar, in its representations of relations with the ...

That's why you need massive arms stockpiles, to defend yourselves from those in power. Seems like paranoia.

Wasn't Jesus' quarrel with the Jews, not the Egyptians?

I agree with both of these, as benefits of pot usage. Perhaps by slightly altering your mind it opens your mind to alternative perspectives. It seems ...

I second this motion. What is at the heart of this confusion, I believe, is a complete lack of understanding of the nature of time.

I don't see how a concept could be apprehended on the basis of one word. The concept is always the meaning of the word, and it requires an explanation...

We've been through this. That's why I say there is deficiency in the human intellect. It cannot grasp the form of the individual because it only grasp...

That's rather sexy that trailer. I suppose that's how they got such a following, with the use of sex appeal.

Those are the forms received within the mind that are immaterial. The form of the object itself is also immaterial, in the sense that matter and form ...

But according to my post, I refer to a certain form of unreasonable prejudice, one which places the values of one's own culture as higher than another...

OK, I stand corrected on this matter, thanks. But this is extremely difficult to understand, and it appears as inconsistency. In Aristotle's metaphysi...

The short answer: yes. All values must be judged by reason, and to accept one over another simply because it is of the culture that one has sprung fro...

I disagree with this aspect of what you wrote Aaron. Aquinas allows for substantial existence which is not a composite of potency and act. This is obv...

I do not think it is correct to say that the A-T understanding is different from what I claim, because this is what Aristotle argues in BK 9 of the Me...

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia (of all places) entry on "essence": "Aristotle moves the Forms of Plato to the nucleus of the individual thing, whic...

Communicating with me may be like talking to a wall, but I can see through you like glass. I hope you now recognize that what you promote is nothing b...

What you call levels of doubt are really different senses of "doubt", So your argument really amounts to equivocation. Right, once you produce a defin...

In its ancient form, I believe that astrology was used to predict the changing seasons and these predictions were quite useful to farmers. It may not ...

Try telling that to TimeLine. Do you even know what "percentage" means? 11% is a low percentage whether the overall number is two, twenty, twenty mill...

The point is that there must be both, general forms and particular forms. Suppose there is a blueprint from which a product is mass produced. We still...

All right, but when the incorporeal soul apprehends the form, through the means of the mind, that form is always apprehended through universals. This ...

Ok, so we're down to 11%. To me, that's already a low percentage. Now how many of those who meet the criteria for "dependence", meet the criteria for ...

This is the essential principle of Aristotle's law of identity, and his hylomorphism. Every object has a "what" it is, which is proper to it, and it a...

This is what I see as the riddle of Kant"s "Critique of Pure Reason". He refers to the noumenon as "intelligible object", yet he disallows that the in...

Check any statistics, they're all over the internet. It's very clear that only a small percentage of those who use, or have used marijuana, are actual...

Oh come on Time Line, face reality. Addiction, and the problems involved with addiction, is all you've been talking about. Here's the first line of yo...

I suppose that depends on what is programmed into it.

I can only you give facts when it concerns my own experience. Statistics are bullshit. So it's you who should stop blabbing, and show me some facts ba...

This is where you seem to be lost. Why do you think that if two things interact they must be of the same substance. Vinegar and baking soda interact, ...

I studied philosophy for many years. It would be very difficult for me to recount here, under these conditions, why I don't think my mind is part of m...

Well, I don't think it's really a nominalist position which I propose, because I respect the reality of universals.. I just say that it is more accura...

OK, so when you are inside your car you believe that you are part of your car. I don't, so we have a difference of opinion on that. I know what we are...

That's why we need to compare numerous physical activities to produce an accurate clock.

I never experienced any such withdrawal. I drank lots, smoked lots of weed, and every once in a while I would quit one or the other for a month or two...

I would not be the person I am today without the drug use I experienced when I was younger. Clearly the effects are long term. Also, I would be dissat...

Being inside a body means to be part of that body? Since when? Does being inside a box mean that you are part of the box? How about a car, or a house,...

Didn't you read my post? I said: Further, I said that if the mind is inside a body, this does not lead to the conclusion that the mind is part of a bo...

This doesn't imply infinite regress though. What it implies is that we can never be absolutely certain about the length of any time period. This is be...

OK, if I suppose that the standard is the day, I need to define the day empirically. I can't say that it is the time until the sun appears at the same...