Metaphysician Undercover

There is a difference between equal and identical 2+2 is equal to four, but it is far from identical to four. If "subjective experience" refers to a "...

Then what is identity in your view? So why is it that we say that many different individuals have subjective experience if different individuals canno...

You may not agree, but it's still obviously a case of mistaken identity. So you were wrong whether you admit to it or not. No matter how many particul...

Yes, "cause" is a vague term, but that is principally because it has many different senses, and it is used ambiguously. In philosophy this ambiguity i...

To identify subjective experience as material is false identity.

So what about that particular matter, in particular relations, undergoing particular processes? Even if we assume that this is the cause of subjective...

The lunatic can go around shouting out great insight, but it's the ability to justify what you claim which makes you a respectable philosopher. That's...

Most these discussions involve argumentation. In my opinion, what is important is not the assertion but the argument which supports the assertion. To ...

You like skimming the text, reading only what the author presents as the important ideas. How do you know that your idea of what is important is the s...

Are you here to advertise?

What do you suppose that "hidden agenda" is? Or is it too well hidden for you to know?

The effect of love is the action. But the cause, love, is something different from the action. We know that love is distinct from the action which it ...

I'd say it's a noun, but it's listed in my dictionary as both, and if I say "I love you" it's clearly being used as a verb. However, doesn't "I love y...

You assert that the activity is itself love, but then you speak of activities as possessing love. Do you not see the difference? Your claim is that lo...

You still don't seem to be understanding what I'm saying. Each particular activity has a description proper to itself. For instance, I gave my friend ...

I don't thing my dreams come from fragments of previous experience. This is completely inconsistent with what I experience in dreaming. What I experie...

I don't see how any one of these is an activity. We can look at actions, and infer that there is brotherly love there, or whatever kind of love is the...

Clearly dreams are not something which we have already experienced, they are completely made up, imaginary.

I was pointing out the contradiction between your claim "God is Love", and "God is loving". I'm still trying to get you to realize that "God is equiva...

What follows from there being limits to the human intellect, is twofold: 1) that there are things which are incomprehensible to us, and 2) the possibi...

As I explained, it is not arbitrary. We apprehend that there are limits to the human intellect. Because of these limits, there are things which the hu...

If you define "love" in one way, then define "love" in another way, then the two definitions contradict each other. Love is not an action. If it were,...

I 've heard of cases where people have asked to pay the same amount as the insurance company is allowed to pay, for the same procedure, and were refus...

I don't see how you can separate love from emotion. Love is an emotion. If you impose such a separation, what you refer to with "love" is not love at ...

Is this really true, you can get the hospital to reduce your bill by 75%?

I do not see the need for another decision making process, and the infinite regress you refer to. Yes, we often do refer to further decisions, but thi...

It's not an arbitrary assumption though, it's an identification. What is identified is that which is beyond human comprehension. It is identified as i...

Even if we assume that all emotions are modes of love, it doesn't follow that we have our being in love. Our being consists of activities in the physi...

Clearly, we cannot say that a human being is love. We do have love, but we have other emotions as well, and some of these contradict "love", so we can...

They could both be true, but this would require that "love" is defined differently for each. "God is Love", and "God is loving" can only be both true ...

In the one case it is implied that "God" is equivalent to "Love", to say "God", is to say "Love", they are synonymous, "God is Love". In the other cas...

The context is John 4:8, and it is promptly contradicted at John 4:9. In many places John says "God loved the world", then he says "God is love". Here...

From whatever I've read in Christian theology, God is known to be a Trinity. You can find the Trinity well described by St. Augustine, St. Thomas, and...

There is sometimes a big difference between what is taught by the Church, and what is found in the Gospels. The Gospels need to be interpreted. For in...

Perhaps you mean "God Loves us"? But this is very distinct from "God is Love". The former places God as external to us, and the latter places God as i...

I've read a large stack of Christian theology, and I've only come across God is a Trinity. The three members of the Trinity are interpreted in numerou...

I believe that you can quote scriptures to support just about anything. But we can know quite clearly, that according to Christian doctrine, God canno...

I can't agree with this. In the "Christian picture" love cannot equal God, because love is something that we as human beings can possess, or do. And a...

I would equate apprehension of God with apprehension of the good because I do not think that one can apprehend God without apprehending good, and I th...

Yeah, well this just reinforces unenlightened's point "the whole notion of mental illness is flawed".

I think the issue here is how we define "love". It is a broad term, and we could be referring to a thing called "love", or we could be referring to th...

But this is exactly the proposition I am question, and merely stating it doesn't prove it. It appears to me like the will to commit suicide would be a...

I don't understand this. You are separating joy from pleasure. But isn't joy a form of pleasure? How can joy be separated from pleasure if joy is a fo...

So what you are saying is that from a deterministic perspective, potential is not real, it is an illusion. Since we know that with respect to the futu...

What is "other-directedness"? I think you are adding too many qualifying terms to your demographic here. Doing this just directs your conclusion. So f...

Why the contradiction? Do you not see this as contradiction? You are interested in "what" truth is, and this implies that you want a definition of "tr...

Why do you think it is, that people of various age groups, who are apparently completely mentally stable, not diagnosable of having major mental illne...

On the contrary, knowledge itself is a form of potential, because it allows us to do various things. Knowledge allows one to decide what will or won't...

What does Love mean to you? I understand asceticism as a philosophy of abstaining from pleasure. But I understand love as being very closely related t...

Of course the inverse of this is true as well. If the nature of free will was known, and understood, many cherished psychological models would simply ...