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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
That was probably the first sense of "inform", where Plato referred to the creation of particular things as matter being informed. Matter is passive, ...
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...
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...
The issue of interaction is even more complicated than you might think. Plato proposes a tripartite person, such that interaction between the mind and...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The words don't constrain my mind at all, that is a completely deterministic assumption. All the decisions concerning interpretation are made within m...
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...
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...
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...
If I remember correctly the Aristotelian distinction between passive intellect and active (agent) intellect, is not much more than a mention of the ne...
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...
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...
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...
Why? Are you adverse to questioning the truth of theories accepted by the scientific community? Such theories are proven inaccurate quite frequently, ...
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...
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...
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