No, I don't think that I agree with this, because "data" implies that the information has already been interpreted, and this would mean that it cannot...
I think that this is the issue, in a nutshell. The structure of things, the relationships between things, is commonly taken to be the "information". S...
Hindsight is 20/20. Do you really believe that we could identify all the red flags, and then start to act on those red flags? What would those actions...
I can point your head at the difference. I can describe it to you. But I can't make you see it. If you do not see that the future is substantially dif...
I gave you the reference, it's right there under "identity". What do you want me to do, read it for you? Furthermore, the other time you asked for ref...
Clearly it's not Peircean, because Peirce proposed a line between the green and white, which is both green and white, violating PNC, while I propose a...
Things in the past are fixed, determined. With respect to the future we can work to avoid unpleasant things, and create pleasant ones. So clearly ther...
I see a faulty premise here. The faulty premise is in "what is the colour of the dividing line". There is no such dividing line in the original descri...
I think that the route toward understanding this issue is Plato's concept of participation. This is critical to Plato's refutation of Pythagorean Idea...
Clearly the future is completely distinct from the past. Our living experience demonstrates that the two are not the same at all. When you talk about ...
Yes, this is the definition which needs to be defended. You can define any term any way you like, but if it is nonsense, or contradictory, then it's a...
If I understand you, you are saying that the actuality which is known to us as a global telos, is understood by us in terms of potentiality. So I beli...
I think that the point here is that things like "the triangle", and "the good", are human words. Now, there is supposed to be an objective, independen...
Are you sure that you do not have this statement backward? What can we actually do to stop such massmurders? Do you sentence the massmurderers to deat...
Actually I think the opposite of this is true, the ends are what are questioned by Plato. Pleasure, the different virtues, and virtue itself, are pres...
As something we can refer to, the future exists. But if "exists" is restricted to definite physical forms, through a physicalist premise, then the fut...
But remember, I use "vague" and "potential" in a different way from you. For me, vagueness, is necessarily conditional, as is potential. It is conditi...
Perhaps you are using "given" in a way that I am not familiar with. Desire begins as an indefinite feeling. It is a sort of uneasiness within a person...
No you can't skip to the end of time, that's the point. Time is more than just a curtain. What hasn't yet occurred cannot be viewed, it is impossible ...
I don't think it is correct to say that means and ends are given for Plato and Aristotle. This is what enables Socrates to say "I don't know", nothing...
So I've already made the choices which I will make tomorrow, concerning the day after tomorrow. It doesn't make sense to say that we've already made t...
If you create your path by making choices, then there is no determinism. The fact that the past has already been determined is irrelevant, because you...
Potential is difficult to understand, because it is not any definite thing. It is defined by Aristotle by referring to the dichotomy of what is and is...
Check Augustine's "On Free Choice of the Will". I think it's available online. He is really the first one to actually develop the concept of free will...
That's the thing with the will. As Augustine argues, the will must be free from the material influences of the physical body in order to follow the im...
Yes, I read the quote, that's what got me thinking. I do not think Paul's position is inconsistent with Plato though. St Augustine dealt with this sub...
This doesn't make sense to me. Formal laws are the laws which scientists make, they are descriptions of the physical reality. These are not constraint...
I don't see the basis for the claim that the will is "divided against itself". The will resists activity, and it allows for activity, but this is not ...
The problem though, is that "limits" are by definition constraints, and therefore formal. You can talk about limits and lack of limits, and you are ta...
I find that in general, your quoted website is very inaccurate, and often misleading. The fact is, that Aristotle went on, in BK 10-12 of his Metaphys...
Prime matter is denied, as illogical. Read up on Aristotle's cosmological argument. It is logically impossible that there ever was matter without form...
In his Physics, matter is described as the underlying thing which persists, remains the same throughout a change. Form is active and changing. In his ...
Are you serious? Obviously you haven't read A's Metaphysics, or his Physics. To say that he was ambiguous and inconsistent with respect to the concept...
Sorry, but you're wrong here on two counts. First, Aristotle's metaphysics is nowhere near like yours. He denied the reality of the apeiron, and as I ...
I'm not talking about generality or vagueness, I'm talking about the LEM and the PNC. If the LEM fails to apply then this is a situation where contrad...
Actually, this is a situation where the principle of excluded middle does not apply. You should learn to differentiate between these two. PNC states t...
Are you saying, that in symmetry maths, when every possible combination is considered to be an ordered arrangement, then it is impossible that there i...
I don't see how that's relevant. I am asking you what you mean by this statement: Care to explain? For example, what does "arrangements" refer to, and...
When the PNC does not apply, it is and it is not. This means contradiction is united within the same object. To say "not being actually divided by a c...
No, as I explained already, knowing something to be unintelligible is contradictory. If you know the thing, clearly it's not unintelligible. You can p...
Oh here you go again with that irrational nonsense. The reason why these things appear to blend into each other is that we are lacking the capacity to...
Apokrisis posits an apeiron, which is inherently unintelligible, as the beginning from which substantial existence emerges. The apeiron is an infinite...
Yeah, something like that. When "the rule" has difficulty dealing with the fringe factors, you need to make up more rules to deal with those exception...
OK, you're familiar with the concept of spatial expansion, that's good. So observational information is taken and interpreted according to the precept...
I would say "no reason", just like in my example with the gold fish, there is no reason to believe that all fish are gold fish, just because the one p...
This doesn't make sense. First, your claim with respect to special relativity, was that light in all circumstances always travels at the same speed. N...
I can't understand your principles. You seem to be saying that when people can't understand something, then it is correct for them to say that this th...
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