Agreed, that the speed of light is constant no matter what the frame of reference, is a very flimsy principle, not verified, nor verifiable from human...
To agree on contradiction does not make the contradiction go away, it just means that the agreeing parties have agreed to ignore the contradiction. Th...
That's correct, eternal Forms are not denied by Aristotle. What is denied is that human ideas are eternal ideas. Now follow through with the simple de...
Either A and B are simultaneous, or they are not. As in other cases of objective truth, "for Angie", and "for Beth", are irrelevant to what is at issu...
That's not the case though. Speed might have no meaning without a frame of reference, but words do not require a frame of reference to have meaning, y...
So, are you saying that the word "simultaneous" means something different in frame of reference A from what it means in frame of reference B. If so, i...
"In the same sense" refers to the meaning of the words of the statement, not the frame of reference. If you take "in the same sense" to refer to the f...
We're not talking about the speed of an object though. What we are talking about is simultaneity, whether or not it is meaningless to say "at the same...
Right, "A and B occur at the same time" contradicts "A occurs before B". No matter how you qualify this with frames of reference, you do not negate th...
Yes there is contradiction here. You are saying that from A's frame of reference X is the case, and from B's frame of reference not-X is the case. So ...
This is the point I brought up earlier. Each material object has a particular form which is unique and proper to that object alone. This comprises Ari...
It is at Bk. 9, ch. 8 & 9, specifically 1050b, 1051a. It is first argued at 1050b, that actuality is prior to potency, and therefore nothing which exi...
I guess I don't know what you mean by "the principle of intelligibility". It is not found in any ancient philosophy. There is much concern in ancient ...
But this is not what you have claimed in reference to the Pythagorean theorem. You said that any mind would discover the same principle, or concept. T...
Yes, that itself is not a contradiction. But as Banno stated, the transformation equations make what X believes, and what Y believes both true, so tha...
So Angie believes that A and B are simultaneous. Beth believes that A and B are not simultaneous. The transformation formulas allow that what Angie be...
I agreed that the input could come from outside the mind. I see no reason to believe that it necessarily does, nor do I see reason to believe that all...
Perhaps it sounds like nonsense, but you are the one suggesting that drawing boundaries is not a sensible way to proceed. So now saying that the bound...
The problem is that interiority and externality necessarily arise together. They are conceptual only, and both rely on each other. Like positive and n...
Are you familiar with Newton's work on light? He did a lot of experimentation with prisms, mirrors, etc., and wrote an extensive speculative treatise ...
No, philosophy is to seek answers, to inquire, it is not to claim that we already have the answers. This is the problem with what you profess, and why...
That's highly doubtful. The other species might develop a system based on forty five degree angles instead of ninety. Or, the species might not even u...
The problem is that there aren't any right angle triangles except those created by human beings. So it doesn't really make any sense to say that The P...
Oh, so being influenced by someone is what you count as having the same thoughts as that person. Get real. I am not asserting that all my thoughts and...
Abstracted things are artificial, and decided upon too. What else, other than a human mind would perform the act of abstraction, and whether the abstr...
I didn't say anything about a river, we were talking about thoughts. That's a category difference and you're making a category mistake with your accus...
My resistance is simple defence. That person, unenlightened, attacked the creative function of all individual human minds, claiming the mind is a "res...
That is what I do not agree with. If we are calling a certain object by the name of "X", and I can recognize and call that object X, then it does not ...
The second law is not a structural feature of the eternalist block universe, that's the inconsistency I'm talking about. Either the eternalist block p...
I think you need to remove the ambiguity from your categories of "process" to understand the criticism which has been directed at your approach. First...
That's right, Perhaps I didn't state that very clearly. The eternalist block universe does not allow for any passing of time. Any conception of time p...
The point is. that things are only "wet" because we call them "wet". That constitutes "the fact" that some things are wet, we agree to call them wet. ...
Each thing has its own internal. The internal of you is not the same as the internal of me. However, I agree that there is likely a way by which we ar...
Right, so the point at issue is the second law of thermodynamics. It indicates that the structure of patterns within the eternalist block are such tha...
Your voice is external to me, but it is external to you as well. Your thoughts are internal to you, but they are also internal to me as well, because ...
Ok, so this is where we disagree. I think that in the process of abstraction, the concept is created within the mind, it is an act of creation. I do n...
If you use "increasing entropy" to describe the arrow of time, then there is no need to describe the feeling of time passing. The feeling of time pass...
This is a philosophy forum, and there is such a thing as the law of identity. It is fundamental to logical proceedings. If you were using "same" in a ...
If you use the word "same", then I expect that you mean same. If you want to say that people have similar thoughts, then say that they have similar th...
That's the norm, Stanford is not a good reference. But causality is highly questionable in eternalism. You could perhaps assume potential causal relat...
Don't give me any of that BS. The article you referred me to very clearly states that at the molecular level it is true that snowflakes are unique. Ju...
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