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I think that every thought is unique, just like every snowflake, and every person is unique. I have never had the same thought twice, (I've experience...
October 22, 2017 at 03:25
The "patterns" you refer to are a temporal succession, one neuron firing is experienced as prior to another etc. In the block universe, how does one t...
October 22, 2017 at 02:28
"We" here refers to a generalization. I know myself as an individual, so I, believing that others are like me, think that others know themselves as in...
October 21, 2017 at 18:48
It seems to me, that I am always totally alone in my mind, because everyone else is outside it. I've learned to accept the gap, and make efforts to un...
October 21, 2017 at 17:52
Isn't this a lie though? We experience ourselves as individuals, with our own individual thoughts, with freedom to think what we want in secret, funda...
October 21, 2017 at 17:01
I follow, except there is a lot more than two timelines, because every subject has one's own timeline. Then the "objective timeline" is assumed to hav...
October 21, 2017 at 16:40
So, how do you conclude that because the input is not in the mind, therefore the abstraction is not in the mind? "Abstraction" refers to either the pr...
October 21, 2017 at 11:37
I don't think that you can separate these two. The particular experience of asking the question, takes time, it has temporal extension. So it is impos...
October 21, 2017 at 02:37
OK, if you want to take that route, and deny that a thing is a state, then the laws of logic do not apply to any thing. An activity, is by definition ...
October 20, 2017 at 23:48
The abstraction occurs within the mind, a process which the mind carries out. So how does this make an argument that concepts are outside of a mind? "...
October 20, 2017 at 23:36
If you deny states, then you deny things. Objects exist as a describable state with a temporal extension. You might claim that this is just a formal a...
October 20, 2017 at 10:47
= is a mathematical equivalence. "Same" cannot be reduced to =. That would mean that all qualities could be expressed as quantities. This assumption a...
October 20, 2017 at 02:44
I take it, that by "actual forms of things" of things, you mean material things. If so, then the argument is that the "actual form" is the immaterial ...
October 19, 2017 at 23:23
The same thing which makes a material object a particular (i.e., that it is unique, and there is no such thing as a difference which does not make a d...
October 19, 2017 at 11:03
If it is "the ideal", it is the absolute perfect, meaning that everything about it must be precisely according to that ideal, or it will be less than ...
October 19, 2017 at 01:08
Each material object is a unique physical thing, that is what is expressed by Aristotle's law of identity, a thing is the same as itself. In The Timae...
October 18, 2017 at 10:55
Plato did a deep analysis of Pythagorean Idealism, exposing the weaknesses. Since he spent so much time discussing this position many think that he ad...
October 18, 2017 at 01:19
That is what I called the subject matter, or content. But since information cannot exist without a physical form, physical form is just as essential a...
October 17, 2017 at 10:59
As you were totally unimpressed with my argument, I've found a completely different way to describe the problem. Please take a few minutes to read thi...
October 17, 2017 at 01:21
I don't think I can agree with this. If being within a mind is not an essential property of a concept, then we must consider concepts which are not wi...
October 16, 2017 at 10:48
When you call free will a cultural fiction, I know you have very little metaphysical education. And that explains why you would say that Peirce is the...
October 16, 2017 at 01:36
Have you never heard of the concept of free will? This is a cause which is not an efficient cause. You can call free will miraculous if you want, I pr...
October 15, 2017 at 23:59
I know, that's just the way it is.
October 15, 2017 at 21:43
I don't see your point. It is not immoral to quit doing something which is beneficial to someone else. Consider that it is beneficial for me if my nei...
October 15, 2017 at 21:42
Huh? Check the first line:
October 15, 2017 at 21:31
That's the conclusion I came to a few days back. Apokrisis is very convinced that the position expressed is the correct one. So no matter how many tim...
October 15, 2017 at 21:26
Correct, we find the existence of an intelligible world, and the laws of logic are developed to help us understand that world. We have no reason to be...
October 15, 2017 at 21:14
Here's a challenge Wayfarer, if you haven't hit the ignore button on me. Reformulate your argument with the proper premise, a true premise, which resp...
October 15, 2017 at 12:07
OK, so your principle of identity involves "exact same properties". How does the concept of "five-ness" which is in my mind, qualify as the same conce...
October 15, 2017 at 11:49
The laws of logic were produced, and developed by human beings. They are human statements of how to proceed in logical process. Surely they have only ...
October 14, 2017 at 20:46
If there are different correct answers for the same question, this means that there are different correct ways of interpreting the same question. It d...
October 14, 2017 at 20:16
I soundly refuted that argument, perhaps you weren't paying attention. The claim that "the same" information is carried by different media is a false ...
October 14, 2017 at 13:10
The laws of logic are rules of predication, how we attribute predicates to a subject. If your subject is the general notion of a triangle, the rules a...
October 14, 2017 at 12:28
In other words, you don't care about the relationship between the symbol and the idea. You start a thread "is information physical", but you really do...
October 14, 2017 at 00:50
Sure there's a relation, but they are not the same thing. Fair enough, that's your opinion, but I think it's a route of inquiry which may lead us to a...
October 13, 2017 at 23:39
OK, so the concept of a triangle is "a plane figure with three sides and angles". Let me see if I can figure out how the LEM does not apply here. You ...
October 13, 2017 at 22:57
Well, I told you where I disagree, and it would be helpful to me if you told me where you disagree. Do you disagree that there is a distinction betwee...
October 13, 2017 at 22:21
Your "two different ways seems to neglect other possibilities. The way I look at time is that the future is substantially different from the past. And...
October 13, 2017 at 20:21
If "sameness" is what is important, then it appears like any difference makes a difference, because any difference negates the possibility of sameness...
October 13, 2017 at 11:08
This is where I disagree. I think doing math is dealing with relationships between symbols. What the symbols stand for, the ideas, is something which ...
October 13, 2017 at 02:01
Sure, we can agree to disagree. But I hope you respect the fact that I've explained to you why I believe what I believe, and you haven't yet answered ...
October 13, 2017 at 01:32
You calling me an idiot? Is this really the case though? Does the algebraic problem deal with the relationships between ideas, or does it deal with th...
October 13, 2017 at 01:25
I do not believe that different subjects ever share the same meaning unless the meaning is within the physical object which is shared between them. Th...
October 13, 2017 at 01:07
This is like the argument for independent Ideas in Plato's Parmenides. The Idea is said to be like the day. It doesn't matter how many different place...
October 12, 2017 at 11:04
Where do you get this idea, that "most people" understand our universe as determined. Physicists make up a small portion of the people in the world, a...
October 12, 2017 at 02:35
Here again, we have the issue of "the 'same' meaning" assigned to different phenomenal information. As I explained, I take this to be contradictory. I...
October 12, 2017 at 01:50
You cannot actually reach a conclusion when you multiply a repeating decimal. You have to round it off in order to perform the procedure. So when you ...
October 12, 2017 at 00:09
This definition is problematic. Space is conceptual. We have concepts of space, and these are developed to help us understand and use physical objects...
October 11, 2017 at 01:34
That is correct. The problem with the space-time conception is that it makes time the fourth dimension of space. But a proper understanding of the pas...
October 10, 2017 at 23:19
I've been telling you this from the very beginning, your position is completely irrational. On your part, reason hasn't yet come on the scene, you jus...
October 10, 2017 at 02:55