Metaphysician Undercover

If you're going to discuss evil in relation to God, you need to take the proper perspective. God has the entire universe to look after, why would He t...

It's nonsense to claim that these experiences are undoubtable. Why not doubt that what you see is really "red", that what you are doing is really "mov...

Mathematics, geometry and logic are all forms of philosophy.

We're speaking past each other. Do you recognize the difference between geometry and mathematics? The parallel postulate is geometry, not mathematics.

How would I know, what is your point?

I see no reason to assume that the parallel postulate is false. Not all logical axioms are mathematical axioms. The parallel postulate might be a self...

I didn't say "actualization", don't misquote me. I said "actuality". An actuality is something real, and it is quite possible that there is something ...

As Chany says, time comes into existence with God's creation. As a dualist, I recognize two distinct forms of actuality. One is activity, movement, an...

In philosophy, an axiom is a self-evident truth, and therefore cannot be wrong. In mathematics an axiom is a postulate. Since the postulate is posited...

How's that relevant? There are many things which do not have consistent conventions. That God created because he saw that it was good to do so is a ve...

How are the assertions made in mathematics essentially different from the assertions made in religion? They are both based in convention.

This formalism relies on certain assumptions, and if the assumptions are false, the formalism is deceptive. It is a fact that one spatial dimension is...

Aren't all assertions based on conventions? That's what language is.

So the imaginary number artificially converts one dimension into another dimension?

It's convention, what I've read in different books; it made sense to me, and so I'm just answering what I assume is common knowledge. Your alternative...

I'm inclined to ignore your question because I really don't know what you're asking. Anyway, here's the answer to the best of my knowledge, my answer ...

Give it a geometric interpretation? What do you mean by that?

I can't think of a better thing to do after a traumatic event than to smoke a big fat joint.

God created because He knew that it was good to do so.

Do you think it would have been better to be an object without the capacity to choose, like a rock or something, than to be a human being with the cap...

Lucifer is the highest angel, not perfect. To be perfect would be to equate Lucifer with God. That is exactly Lucifer's sin, he thought he was God or ...

When you say that "the universe is not a perfectly good place to live in", how are your terms defined, so that you can truthfully say that? Do we not ...

Free will is necessary in order that we may be able to determine the truth, through choice of what to believe, instead of just believing what is told ...

The pigeons were simply bored, being caged, they were finding something to do while they waited for the food to arrive. Notice that the food arrived a...

Nature is not an act of human beings, enacting laws is. I didn't think it was necessary to make that distinction. Nature has no capacity to respect mo...

The law works this way too, if you take part in a murder, you are a murderer. It's association through intent. How is this superstition? When a group ...

Call it encoding your consciousness if you like, but I don't think any physical object can surf on radio waves, so you'd have to really release your s...

There's no such thing as an amoral law. If the law is designed to "create" some sort of environment, with disregard for morality, it is immoral. Havin...

If the concept of "corporation", allows for corporations to exist in an immoral way, then it follows that the concept of "corporation" is an immoral c...

Yes, I think that's about right. There is something which makes me me, and something which makes you you, and since this "something" is different for ...

According to this statement, a thing's essence is something particular, it is what makes the thing the thing that it is, and not something else, so it...

The nature of "good" is such that what is good is particular to the specific situation. There is no general "good" which is applicable to all situatio...

Smaller, higher, what's the difference?

Hey, if I had the biggest pot leaf in existence wrapped around my neck, I'd be happy too.

How is an observation itself not an interpretation? To observe is to pay attention and take note of what is happening. But one person cannot observe t...

Plato would say that they need to recollect such things. Those ideas must be already innate within them in some panpsychic way.

I'm too old for experimenting with chemicals, I'll let the kids do that (with care of course). Messing around with acetylcholine levels sounds really ...

I'm getting kind of old, do you think CBD could help out my short term memory loss? Or does it just take away what the THC gives?

Those monster leaves come from the CBD filled hemp fields where the pot grows 12 feet tall? What does CBD do for you?

Wosret, is that a huge pot leaf? Where did get that monster!?

What exactly do you mean by "...for ethics to take off"? There's a distinct difference between producing a code of ethics, and producing within other ...

I think it's very difficult to produce epistemologically sound moral principles without determining the proper ontological status of things like final...

Presuming this analogy, suppose I am working with my computer, doing something. I haven't the foggiest idea of what is going on within my computer, al...

"To see the light" is a reference to the part of the allegory in which "the good" itself is represented. We must ensure that "the good" is held in dis...

Care to explain where you're seeing contradiction?

If there was no one there to observe it, it didn't happen.

There are always those who hate philosophy, and therefore philosophers. Philosopher-bashing is really no different from gay-bashing, and may actually ...

I don't agree with this, because we are using straight, and not-straight, to refer to different categories, not opposing qualities within a category. ...

In understanding any particular curve, what is important is understanding how it deviates from a straight line. That it deviates from a straight line ...

I don't see the relevance. I thought you were arguing that they were antonyms of straight. Anyway, we have other shapes which are defined relative to ...