Let's suppose there is a "space-in-itself". Isn't this contradictory to Schopenhauer? Space cannot be a pure intuition, nor an idea. And this validate...
I think you need to distinguish between being non-spatial, and being located in space. My soul may have a location, coinciding with my body, but it ca...
I am not a physicist, but I understand that this is the case with 4d space-time. Space-time is curved according to the principles of general relativit...
Before I proceed, I want to distinguish mathematical from geometrical. I think that this is important, and the importance may become evident when we b...
Actually, I think you have contradiction here Agustino. Something which is purely ideal cannot be (2) synthetic. It's being analytic which makes it id...
The point about whether or not ravens exist was very relevant, but the argument was not formulated in a very logical way, which is necessary to reduce...
If we take the Platonic route, we resolve this problem by making the ideal the real. Now the stage, which is the ideal, is what is real, and the sense...
No that's not the case, we've already gone through this with the raven example. Reread my posts if you do not understand. Now consider the other propo...
What we have been discussing is the raven paradox. I've demonstrated how the two statements are not what you call semantically equivalent. They are lo...
I would if I knew Schopenhauer's transcendental idealism, but I don't, so I can't. The existence of numbers and mathematics is difficult because it ap...
That's right, there is nothing to argue here. So long as you separate logical equivalence, equivalence according to contraposition, and semantic equiv...
The point is that science gives us evidence that there is no good reason to consider (4). There is no good reason for the claim that the immaterial ca...
Start from the proposition that space is purely conceptual. It doesn't have to be Euclidean, it doesn't have to be any particular way at all, it is ho...
I think that this is a better representation than Arkady's. Now if we want to bring the evidence of physics into this, there are interpretations of QM...
Look Michael, take (2) as a proposition. "Everything that is not black is not a raven.". Now take the proposition "Everything that is black is not a r...
The problem is that this (2) also allows that "Everything that is black is not a raven" is true as well. So it is impossible that (1) and (2) are logi...
OK, I wasn't clear on your definition of "logical equivalence". If this is your definition of logical equivalence: Then (1) and (2) of the op are not ...
Actually, what we are looking at is two statements which have the same truth value within the same model. So you need to adjust your claim to read: "T...
All you are saying is that logical equivalence is not "the same" as numerical equivalence. You have just provided evidence for my argument, that "equi...
Again, I think you're mistaken. You've applied an unjustified condition to "mean the same thing". Here's a little example. Let's say that 2+2=4. There...
You might say that two statements which are logically equivalent have the same truth value. But that is my point, they are equivalent according to thi...
They do not say the same thing, they say an equivalent thing. Therefore what they say is equivalent, not the same. Likewise the table and the chair ar...
The issue here, which creates the appearance of a paradox, is with the notion of "equivalent". Logic proceeds by doing a very neat little trick, (whic...
An image, or idol, is a material object taken to be a representation of the immaterial God. You are not supposed to worship the material object, you a...
But the point was that we cannot find this continuity in the wall, we cannot "walk around" the wall because there is a break in it, and that is the pr...
Where there are winners, there are losers. "Winning", means others are losing. Having as a goal "to win", makes you unpopular. The two things which yo...
Come on Agustino, an individual must have a view of what is "winning", in order to be an opportunist. You cannot negate this to say that opportunism i...
When I look to the past, I see that all physical things have definite location. I have seen things. But I have no capacity to move into the past, towa...
Until we determine exactly what it means to be in space and time, we cannot make any determinations about whether or not things which are not in space...
I like that analogy, the world as a wall. I think of this wall as a confinement. Do you see that with respect to the past, and with respect to the fut...
But, as others have said, the second premise is false. Just because physics has no way of determining how the spatial-temporal and non-spatial-tempora...
Perhaps, a massive team, one within each cell, or each molecule, each atom, or each subatomic particle. The thing is, each is an individual, distinct ...
I see the causal agency of my self as explained by intentional, free will acts. How do you understand this as a case of top-down causal agency, define...
You've lost me in your contradictory ways. Free will is a constraint? That's the problem with your position, you portray the creative results of free ...
The most simple way to choose not to suffer the consequences, is to choose to follow the orders. It's not difficult, just like the law, choose to obey...
Any raw recruit can choose not to follow the instruction of the drill sergeant, and suffer the consequence. When the choice to follow the drill sergea...
The problem is, you haven't justified your claim of downward causation, or that anything such as "the army" is a real, natural entity, rather than jus...
I think I see the "violence" you are talking about. In each clip you are asked to speak when the question asked is difficult to answer. The forcing yo...
If the constraints are immanent, then they must be inherent within the matter itself, so really it's all bottom up. There is no top down constraint, t...
The philosopher king has to lay the foundations for the new society. I'd say he is more of a visionary then anything else, he must see far into the fu...
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