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As I explained, your questioning was nonsensical. You shifted from the assumption that the mind is part of the body, to the assumption that the mind i...
November 06, 2017 at 22:41
Another possibility, the more the better. The ancient people made a clock of the moon, the sun, every planet, and the "fixed" constellations. That's w...
November 06, 2017 at 11:43
This is where you and I are at opposite ends of the spectrum. I see the structure of reality in particular entities. The human mind understands in ter...
November 06, 2017 at 11:41
I never heard of the Chinese water clock, perhaps it's one possibility.
November 06, 2017 at 11:29
Two contradictory statements one after the other. Physics is on the doorstep of the answer. It has a whole range of possible answers. Of course, the r...
November 06, 2017 at 11:27
So how would you decisively determine that radioactive decay is "the single best process" without comparing it to a number of different clocks. Or is ...
November 06, 2017 at 11:13
That's why we need numerous different types of clocks. Each has its own peculiarities.
November 06, 2017 at 03:14
How is my memory relevant to this point? Just because I do not remember the time before I learned how to talk doesn't mean that there wasn't a time wh...
November 06, 2017 at 00:16
I don't understand what you're saying here. Perhaps you could explain. As far as I understand, a sign is created, and therefore there must be a subjec...
November 05, 2017 at 22:32
Oh, I know it's sick, but I love it when the shit hits the fan. It makes such a beautiful pattern.
November 05, 2017 at 18:13
An accurate time piece just utilizes one of the supposed constants. We know that the supposed constants are not absolute, by comparing one to the othe...
November 05, 2017 at 16:40
So, it appears we have two distinct ways of quantifying humanity. The way of scientism assumes to be able to reduce human existence to something expre...
November 05, 2017 at 15:43
It is you who is wiggling. Last post you said your body "includes my mind", implying that the mind is a part of the body. Now you say that the mind is...
November 05, 2017 at 15:00
The second is derived from the minute which comes from the hour, and the day. The day refers to the planetary motion. So one rotation of the planetary...
November 05, 2017 at 14:45
Right, that is what I was addressing, what it means for something to mean something. What I said, is that there are two distinct ways to approach this...
November 05, 2017 at 13:53
I think that in the strictest sense, meaning is defined as "what is meant". This implies the intent of the author. In a different sense, we have "what...
November 04, 2017 at 12:54
Who's next, Kushner?
November 04, 2017 at 01:23
I agree with thorongil, I think you would take all the political and moral attitudes which you dislike and class them under the heading of neo-liberal...
November 04, 2017 at 01:11
if we take this as a principle, we can refer to two distinct ways that forms are imposed in the act of informing. In the one case, we accept intelligi...
November 04, 2017 at 00:03
You premise that your mind is part of your body, so you're just begging the question. I can't answer that question because your premise is not somethi...
November 03, 2017 at 23:26
That was probably the first sense of "inform", where Plato referred to the creation of particular things as matter being informed. Matter is passive, ...
November 03, 2017 at 10:53
OK, I call it becoming tolerant, you call it becoming addicted, two different ways of saying the same thing.
November 02, 2017 at 23:20
But people quickly become tolerant, then the deception does not continue. Developing ways to overcome deception is good for the human being, is it not...
November 02, 2017 at 21:29
People are smoking weed right now, today. Something must have caused that desire within people to smoke it. How is this not a product of evolution? It...
November 02, 2017 at 21:23
How do you know? Maybe the desire to smoke weed was caused by evolution. And, maybe smoking weed causes changes which could become evolutionary.
November 02, 2017 at 21:13
The issue of interaction is even more complicated than you might think. Plato proposes a tripartite person, such that interaction between the mind and...
November 02, 2017 at 20:58
That's not true. The scientific method is a very specific empirically based method. If two things are interacting, and only one of them can be observe...
November 02, 2017 at 20:43
That different "stuff" can't interact is a nonsensical idea. It's only if you define those two sorts of stuff as incapable of interacting that the ide...
November 02, 2017 at 12:07
One point which I've been trying to make in this thread, is that it came to Plato's attention that these Forms which are outside of, or prior to mater...
November 02, 2017 at 11:06
This is what I claim to be mistaken though. It's very likely that the first time someone wrote down that symbol, it had meaning only for that person, ...
November 02, 2017 at 10:34
In the top paragraph, addressed to apokrisis, I am not criticizing subjectivism I am proposing it as opposed to apo's objectivism. Apokrisis claimed t...
November 02, 2017 at 01:27
Then the words are not actual constraints, they are potential, or possible constraints. The listening being must take the words into ones mind and con...
November 01, 2017 at 23:49
A sign does not carry its function. Its function is determined by the mind of the author or by the mind of the interpreter. If this were not the case,...
November 01, 2017 at 20:49
Where I fault the realists is in what type of existence they give to social conventions. Instead of giving real objective existence to things like con...
November 01, 2017 at 20:38
The words don't constrain my mind at all, that is a completely deterministic assumption. All the decisions concerning interpretation are made within m...
November 01, 2017 at 20:20
The container is not the cause of existence of the information, it is part of the information package. The information must be put into the package, s...
November 01, 2017 at 18:37
In this section, Aquinas first makes it clear that the intellect is not the soul itself. It is a power of the soul. So we're not discussing the nature...
November 01, 2017 at 11:02
I was just reading up on this in The Summa Theologica. The issue is a bit more complicated. Following Aristotle, Aquinas says that we must assume a pa...
November 01, 2017 at 01:30
If I remember correctly the Aristotelian distinction between passive intellect and active (agent) intellect, is not much more than a mention of the ne...
October 31, 2017 at 11:12
I've justified my responses by referring directly to what Aristotle wrote, and my understanding of what Aquinas wrote. So your claim that my responses...
October 30, 2017 at 23:21
Rapid growth, like rapid decline, is indicative of increased high-frequency trading, which is instability in the market place.
October 30, 2017 at 21:04
Even better though one could be like Aquinas, both Platonist and Aristotelian. The form of the particular may be what is grasp by the intellect, but t...
October 30, 2017 at 20:49
Wow, that's a big pile of evidence of some serious tax evasion and undisclosed lobbying.
October 30, 2017 at 14:27
Do you understand the market? That's called instability. That sounds rather serious.
October 30, 2017 at 13:49
Assumptions make an ass of u and me. Ha, ha, ha, I'm funny aren't I?
October 30, 2017 at 12:16
Right, those paragraphs express what I take as important consequences of what is said in the quotation. Maybe you have different concerns? I'm glad we...
October 30, 2017 at 12:09
Neither, but why would one need to be genius or psycoceramic to question the truth of a theory?
October 30, 2017 at 01:53
Why? Are you adverse to questioning the truth of theories accepted by the scientific community? Such theories are proven inaccurate quite frequently, ...
October 30, 2017 at 00:42
That's a good reference, I like it. Now let's get to some specifics. I'll start from the end and go to the beginning. Notice here, that according to t...
October 30, 2017 at 00:12
I think that for Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, the "something other" is the soul. It seems consistent through these philosophies that the soul is non...
October 29, 2017 at 21:56